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  Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival.By G. Ronald Murphy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 241 pages. $29.95.

  Stephen Mark Carey

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 613-614; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0070

  Stephen Mark Carey

  Georgia State University

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  Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic. Edited by Albrecht Classen. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2007. viii + 575 pages + 30 b / w illustrations. €98,00.

  Robert G. Sullivan

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 615-616; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0082

  Robert G. Sullivan

  University of Massachusetts- Amherst

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  The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice. By John Pizer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. x + 190 pages. $39.95.

  B.Venkat Mani

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 616-618; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0079

  B.Venkat Mani

  University of Wisconsin- Madison

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  Ästhetik der Beschreibung. Poetische und kulturelle Energie deskriptiver Texte (1700–2000). Von Heinz Drügh. Tübingen: Francke, 2006. viii + 468 Seiten. €78,00.

  Rüdiger Singer

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 618-621; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0056

  Rüdiger Singer

  Georg- August- Universität Göttingen

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  Handbuch zu den “Kinder- und Hausmärchen” der Brüder Grimm. Entstehung—Wirkung—Interpretation. Von Hans- Jörg Uther. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008. 644 Seiten + 50 s / w Abbildungen. €58,00.

  Jack Zipes

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 621-623; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0068

  Jack Zipes

  University of Minnesota

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  Es liegt in der Luft eine Sachlichkeit. Die Zwanziger Jahre im Spiegel des Werks von Marcellus Schiffer (1892–1932). Von Martin Trageser. Berlin: Logos, 2008. 385 Seiten. €40,50.

  Alan Lareau

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 623-624; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0075

  Alan Lareau

  University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh

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  Marieluise Fleißer. Eine Biographie. Von Hiltrud Häntzschel. Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 2007. 412 Seiten + Abbildungen. €22,80.

  Stacy Jeffries

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 624-625; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0057

  Stacy Jeffries

  University of Illinois, Chicago

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  Antike Mythen. Kafka und Brecht. Von Frank D. Wagner. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006. 163 Seiten. €28,00.

  Franz R. Kempf

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 626-627; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0078

  Franz R. Kempf

  Bard College

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  From Fin- de- Siècle to Theresienstadt: The Works and Life of the Writer Elsa Porges- Bernstein. Edited by Helga W. Kraft and Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. x + 260 pages. $73.95.

  Cathy Gelbin

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 627-628; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0067

  Cathy Gelbin

  University of Manchester

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  Traumatic Verses: On Poetry in German from the Concentration Camps, 1933–1945. By Andrés Nader. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2007. x + 258 pages. $75.00.

  —Frederick A. Lubich

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 629-631; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0065

  —Frederick A. Lubich

  Old Dominion University

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  Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism. By Ehrhard Bahr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xvii + 358 pages + 28 b / w illustrations. $39.95.

  Wulf Koepke

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 632-634; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0063

  Wulf Koepke

  Texas A&M University

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  Überwacht—Ausgebürgert—Exiliert. Schriftsteller und der Staat. Von Alexander Stephan. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2007. 432 Seiten. €29,80.

  Johannes F. Evelein

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 634-636; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0073

  Johannes F. Evelein

  Trinity College, Hartford

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  A Nation of Victims? Representations of German Wartime Suffering from 1945 to the Present. Edited by Helmut Schmitz. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007. 261 pages. $73.00.

  Marisa Siguan

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 636-638; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0064

  Marisa Siguan

  Universitat de Barcelona

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  Literarischer Antisemitismus nach Auschwitz. Herausgegeben von Klaus- Michael Bogdal, Klaus Holz und Matthias N. Lorenz. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2007. viii + 373 Seiten. €49,95.

  Joanne Sayner

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 638-640; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0080

  Joanne Sayner

  University of Birmingham

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  Kafka- Rezeption in der Literatur der DDR. Produktive Lektüren von Anna Seghers, Klaus Schlesinger, Gert Neumann und Wolfgang Hilbig. Von Angelika Winnen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006. 317 Seiten. €44,00.

  Marcel Rotter

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 640-642; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0061

  Marcel Rotter

  University of Mary Washington

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  Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann. By Sara Lennox. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xvi + 408 pages. $27.95.

  Katrin Kohl

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 642-644; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0066

  Katrin Kohl

  Jesus College, Oxford

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  “Wir dichten die Geschichte.” Adaption und Konstruktion von Historie bei Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Von Roland Bursch. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006. 219 Seiten. €28,00.

  Richard R. Ruppel

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 644-645; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0060

  Richard R. Ruppel

  University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point

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  Günter Grass’s ‘Danzig Quintet:’ Explorations in the Memory and History of the Nazi Era from Die Blechtrommel to Im Krebsgang. By Katharina Hall. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. 215 pages. €47,70.

  Thomas W. Kniesche

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 646-647; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0062

  Thomas W. Kniesche

  Brown University

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  Reinhard Jirgl. Perspektiven, Lesarten, Kontexte. Herausgegeben von David Clarke und Arne De Winde. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 278 Seiten. €58,00.

  Keith Bullivant

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 647-648; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0069

  Keith Bullivant

  University of Florida

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  Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky. By David J. Levin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xix + 254 pages + musical examples. $35.00.

  Brian Hyer

  Monatshefte, December 2008, 100 (4) 649-653; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.0.0077

  Brian Hyer

  University of Wisconsin- Madison

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