Table of Contents

December 01, 2015; Volume 107,Issue 4

B

  1. Belgum, Kirsten

    1. Popular Fiction in the Age of Bismarck: E. Marlitt and her Narrative Strategies. By Terrill John May. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2014. 381 pages. $81.95.
      Kirsten Belgum
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 676-678; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.676

  2. Boos, Sonja

    1. Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature. By Mary Cosgrove. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. x + 234 pages. $75.00.
      Sonja Boos
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 703-704; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.703

  3. Buerkle, Darcy

    1. Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany. By Frances Guerin. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xxiii + 343 pages +27 b/w illustrations and 16 color plates. $27.95.
      Darcy Buerkle
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 700-703; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.700

C

  1. Clarke, David

    1. Berlin School Glossary: An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema. Edited by Roger F. Cook, Lutz Koepnick, Kristin Kopp, and Brad Prager. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xiii + 291 pp. $35.50.
      David Clarke
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 717-719; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.717

  2. Court, Justin

    1. Personalia 2015
      Justin Court
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 622-668; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.622

D

  1. Davis, Jack

    1. New Austrian Film. Edited by Robert von Dassanowsky and Oliver C. Speck. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2011. vii + 410 pages. $140.00.
      Jack Davis
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 710-712; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.710

E

  1. Eldridge, Sarah Vandegrift

    1. Narrating (Im)Maturity: The Progressive Popularization of Enlightenment Principles in Wieland’s Geschichte des Agathon and Engel’s Herr Lorenz Stark
      Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 533-557; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.533

G

  1. Goebel, Rolf J.

    1. Stefan George. Eine Biographie. Von Kai Kauffmann. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2014. 252 Seiten + 41 Abbildungen. €24,90.
      Rolf J. Goebel
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 690-692; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.690

H

  1. Halle, Randall

    1. Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema. By Daniela Berghahn. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. viii + 224 pages + 27 b/w illustrations. £70.00.
      Randall Halle
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 719; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.719

  2. Haman, Brian

    1. Reevaluating Eichendorff’s Romanticism: Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts as Metafictional Parody
      Brian Haman
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 572-589; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.572

  3. Haque, Kamaal

    1. “Damals gingen die Schnulzen eben gut:” Luis Trenker and the Heimatfilm
      Kamaal Haque
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 604-621; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.604

  4. Hermand, Jost

    1. Heinrich Lersch (1889–1936). Eine literaturpolitische Biographie. Von Steffen Elbing. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014. 322 Seiten + 6 s/w Abbildungen. £39,80.
      Jost Hermand
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 697-698; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.697
    2. Die Sprache der Großstadt. Zeitkritik und ästhetische Moderne in den frühnaturalistischen Berlinromanen Max Kretzers. Von Patrick Küppers. Marburg: Tectum Verlag, 2014. 320 Seiten. €29,95.
      Jost Hermand
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 682-684; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.682

J

  1. Jamison, Robert L.

    1. Wirklichkeit und Wahrnehmung. Neue Perspektiven auf Theodor Storm. Herausgegeben von Elisabeth Strowick und Ulrike Vedder. Bern: Peter Lang, 2013. 236 Seiten. SFR 75,00.
      Robert L. Jamison
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 671-673; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.671

  2. Jensen, Erik N.

    1. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. By Maria Fritsche. New York: Berghahn, 2013. xi + 274 pages + 20 b/w illustrations. $95.00.
      Erik N. Jensen
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 709-710; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.709

K

  1. Krings, Marcel

    1. Klang – Bild – Sprache. Musikalisch-akustische Konfigurationen in der Literatur und im Film der Gegenwart. Von Ulrich Schönherr. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014. 192 Seiten. €29,80.
      Marcel Krings
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 714-717; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.714

M

  1. Magilow, Daniel H.

    1. Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany. By Steve Choe. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. vii + 274 pages + 50 b/w illustrations. $120.00.
      Daniel H. Magilow
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 692-694; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.692

  2. McGillen, Michael

    1. Ernst Toller and German Society: Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914–1939. By Robert Ellis. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013. ix + 239 pages. $80.00.
      Michael McGillen
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 698-700; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.698

  3. Mews, Siegfried

    1. German Text Crimes: Writers Accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s. Edited by Tom Cheesman. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 242 pages. $73.00 hardcover, $66.00 e-Book.
      Siegfried Mews
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 704-706; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.704

P

  1. Pektor, Katharina

    1. Romanisches Erzählen. Peter Handke und die epische Tradition. Von Thorsten Carstensen. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013. 398 Seiten + 13 s/w Abbildungen. €29,90.
      Katharina Pektor
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 712-714; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.712

  2. Peterson, Shane D.

    1. The German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth Century. Edited by Charlotte Woodford and Benedict Schofield. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012. x + 286 pages + 11 b/w illustrations. $85.00.
      Shane D. Peterson
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 680-682; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.680

R

  1. Richter, Daniela

    1. Good Girls, Good Germans: Girls’ Education and Emotional Nationalism in Wilhelminian Germany. By Jennifer Drake Askey, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. x + 201 pages + 5 b/w illustrations. $85.00.
      Daniela Richter
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 678-680; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.678

S

  1. Sammons, Jeffrey L.

    1. Women, Emancipation and the German Novel 1871–1910: Protest Fiction in its Cultural Context. By Charlotte Woodford. London: Legenda, 2014. ix + 190 pages. $99.00.
      Jeffrey L. Sammons
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 673-676; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.673

  2. Schütz, Erhard

    1. Der produktive Kosmos der Gina Kaus. Schriftstellerin – Pädagogin – Revolutionärin. Von Veronika Hofeneder. Hildesheim: Olms, 2013. 331 Seiten. €38,00., and: Berlin Coquette: Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933. By Jill Suzanne Smith. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xii + 221 pages + 14 b/w illustrations. $27.95.
      Erhard Schütz
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 684-690; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.684

  3. Smith, Jill Suzanne

    1. Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918. Edited by Florian Krobb and Elaine Martin. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014. 263 pages + 9 b/w and 7 color illustrations. €34,80.
      Jill Suzanne Smith
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 694-696; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.694

W

  1. Weber, Christoph

    1. Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012. ix + 395 pages + 15 b/w illustrations. $80.00.
      Christoph Weber
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 669-671; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.669

  2. Wessels, Malte

    1. The Parrhesiastic Urszene of the Modern Novel in Wieland’s Geschichte des Agathon: Subject as Method
      Malte Wessels
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 558-571; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.558

  3. Wilke, Sabine

    1. „Die Katastrophe ist ein schwarzes Blatt“: Katastrophenmanagement und Umweltethik in Georg Kaisers Schauspiel Gas (1918)
      Sabine Wilke
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 590-603; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.590

Z

  1. Ziolkowski, Saskia Elizabeth

    1. Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann / Luchino Visconti: un confronto. Edited by Francesco Bono, Luigi Cimmino, and Giorgio Pangaro. Soveria Mannelli, Italy: Rubbettino, 2014. 238 pages + 6 b/w illustrations. £14,00., and: Franz Kafka / Orson Welles: Il Processo. Edited by Luigi Cimmino, Daniele Dottorini, and Giorgio Pangaro. Soveria Mannelli, Italy: Rubbettino, 2010. 201 pages. £14,00.
      Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
      Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 706-709; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.706
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