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Book Reviews

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  Nach der Natur. Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur. Von Ursula K. Heise. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2010. 190 Seiten. €12,00.

  Bernhard Malkmus

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 263-265; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0028
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  Zwischen Mythos und Geschichte. Ästhetik, Medialität und Kulturspezifik der Mittelalterkonjunktur. Von Stephanie Wodianka. Berlin und New York: de Gruyter, 2009. x + 493 Seiten. €119,95.

  Richard Utz

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 265-266; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0033
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  King Rother and His Bride: Quest and Counter-Quests. By Thomas Kerth. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010. xi + 252 pages. $75.00.

  Astrid Lembke

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 266-268; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0038
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  Marquard von Lindau and the Challenges of Religious Life in Late Medieval Germany: The Passion, the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary. By Stephen Mossman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 318 pages. $120.00.

  Salvatore Calomino

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 268-270; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0043
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  Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present. By Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 309 pages. $85.00.

  Katherine Goodman

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 270-272; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0047
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  Women and Death 3: Women’s Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500. Edited by Clare Bielby and Anna Richards. Rochester: Camden House, 2010. ix + 224 pages + 3 b/w images. $75.00.

  Jane O. Newman

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 272-274; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0051
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  Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz. Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011. viii + 348 pages + 8 b/w images. $85.00.

  Martin Kagel

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 274-276; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0055
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  Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud. By Michael Mack. Continuum: New York, 2010. 222 pages. $34.95.

  Horst Lange

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 276-279; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0031
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  Who Is This Schiller Now?: Essays on His Reception and Significance. Edited by Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, and Norbert Oellers. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011. xviii + 494 pages + 1 b/w image. $95.00.

  Dirk Oschmann

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 279-281; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0036
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  Der Ring der Notwendigkeit. Friedrich Schiller nach der Natur. Von Thomas Stachel. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010. 320 Seiten. €29,90.

  Peter Höyng

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 281-283; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0041
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  Goethes “Wahlverwandtschaften”. Werk und Forschung. Herausgegeben von Helmut Hühn. Berlin und New York: de Gruyter, 2010. ix + 538 Seiten + 18 s/w Abbildungen. €149,95.

  Michael Saman

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 283-284; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0046
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  “Im Freien”? Kleist-Versuche. Von Roland Reuß. Frankfurt am Main und Basel: Stroemfeld 2010. 400 Seiten. €48,00.

  Hubert Thüring

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 285-287; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0050
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  Männlichkeit und Melodram. Arthur Schnitzlers erzählende Schriften. Von Imke Meyer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. 192 Seiten. €28,00.

  Walter Schönau

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 287-289; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0054
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  Hermann Broch und die Moderne. Roman, Menschenrecht, Biografie. Von Paul Michael Lützeler. München: Fink, 2011. 237 Seiten. €29,90.

  Thorsten Carstensen

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 289-292; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0029
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  Identität und Ordnung. Entwürfe des “Eigenen” und “Fremden” in deutschen Kolonial- und Afrikaromanen von 1889 bis 1952. Von Daniel Schneider. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2011. 339 Seiten. €34,80.

  Sabine Wilke

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 292-294; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0034
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  Ost-westliche Kulturtransfers. Orient—Amerika. Herausgegeben von Alexander Honold. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2011. 291 Seiten. €29,80.

  Kathrin Wittler

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 294-298; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0039
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  “Die Entzauberung des Ostens”. Zur Wahrnehmung und Darstellung des Orients bei Hermann Hesse, Armin T. Wegner und Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Von Behrang Samsami. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2011. 431 Seiten. €45,00.

  Kathrin Wittler

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 294-298; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.104.2.294a
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  Lectures de l’identité narrative. Max Frisch, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marlene Haushofer, W.G. Sebald. De Régine Battiston. Paris: Orizons, 2009. 306 pages. €29,00.

  Josef Schmidt

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 298-299; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0044
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  Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture. Edited by Laurel Cohen-Pfister and Susanne Vees-Gulani. Rochester: Camden House, 2010. x + 326 pages. $75.00.

  Silke Horstkotte

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 299-303; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0048
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  European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe. By Fatima El-Tayeb. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xlvi + 253 pages. $25.00.

  David Gramling

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 303-305; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0052
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  Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders. Edited by Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa Scheer. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect, 2010. vi + 223 pages + 30 b/w illustrations. $35.00.

  Jack Davis

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 306-307; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0056
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  The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010. vi + 431 pages. $39.95.

  Chris Homewood

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 308-309; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0032
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  Beyond Political Correctness: Remapping German Sensibilities in the 21^st Century. Edited by Christine Anton and Frank Pilipp. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. vi + 275 pages. €56,00.

  Siegfried Mews

  Monatshefte, June 2012, 104 (2) 310-311; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0037