This volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned international experts on German society, culture, and politics that, together, provide a compr

Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German wo

This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and

Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike.

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.