German Studies and Language

This edition includes around 80 new and over 200 substantially revised entries. It explores authors and topics at the heart of contemporary debate on literature including Kafka, Kleist Christa Wolf, Jelinek, Peter Handke and Günter de Bruyn.

Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities. Includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to understanding this rich literary tradition.

This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars.

With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world.