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  Fontes Litterarum. Typographische Gestaltung und literarischer Ausdruck. Herausgegeben von Markus Polzer und Philipp Vanscheidt. Hildesheim: Olms, 2014. 479 Seiten. €68,00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Peter Krapp

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 403-405; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.403
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  Orienting the Self: The German Literary Encounter with the Eastern Other. By Debra N. Prager. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. x + 327 pages. $85.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Todd Kontje

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 405-407; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.405
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  German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination: Narrating and Depicting Nature. By Sabine Wilke. Leiden: Brill, 2015. 236 pages + 9 color illustrations. €59,00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Caroline Schaumann

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 407-409; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.407
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  Mysticism and Reform, 1400–1750. Edited by Sara S. Poor and Nigel Smith. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. 424 pages. $45.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Claire Taylor Jones

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 409-411; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.409
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  Poetry As a Way of Life: Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century. By Gabriel Trop. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015. xii + 388 pages. $89.95.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Johannes Schmidt

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 411-413; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.411
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  Der ganze Mensch – die ganze Menschheit. Völkerkundliche Anthropologie, Literatur und Ästhetik um 1800. Herausgegeben von Stefan Hermes und Sebastian Kaufmann. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. vi + 318 Seiten + 9 s/w Abbildungen. €89,95.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Carl Niekerk

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 413-415; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.413
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  Lyrik als Klangkunst. Klanggestaltung in Goethes Nachtliedern und ihren Vertonungen von Reichardt bis Wolf. Von Anne Holzmüller. Freiburg: Rombach, 2015. 467 Seiten + zahlreiche s/w Abbildungen. €58,00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Hannah V. Eldridge

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 415-417; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.415
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  Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848. By Sven-Erik Rose. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2014. xiii + 381 pages. $40.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Jeffrey Grossman

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 417-420; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.417
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  Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824–1955. By Jonathan Skolnik. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. xv + 260 pages + 17 b/w illustrations. $65.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Abigail Gillman

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 420-423; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.420
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  Transatlantic Crossings and Transformations: German-American Cultural Transfer from the 18^th to the End of the 19^th Century. By Kurt Mueller-Vollmer. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015. 418 pages. $94.95.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Cora Lee Kluge

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 423-425; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.423
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  Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800. By H. Glenn Penny. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xx + 372 pages + 35 illustrations. $30.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Jeffrey L. Sammons

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 425-428; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.425
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  Sophie Discovers Amerika: German-Speaking Women Write the New World. Edited by Rob McFarland and Michelle Stott James. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. xi + 312 pages + 6 b/w illustrations. $90.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Marcel P. Rotter

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 428-429; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.428
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  Zwischen unsicherem Wissen und sicherem Unwissen. Erzählte Wissensformation im realistischen Roman: Stifters „Der Nachsommer“ und Vischers „Auch Einer“. Von Petra Mayer. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014. 279 Seiten. €34,80.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Shoshana Schwebel

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 429-431; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.429
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  Das andere Labyrinth. Imaginäre Räume in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Von Matthias Hennig. München: Fink, 2015. 275 Seiten + 5 s/w Abbildungen. €39,90.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Monika Schmitz-Emans

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 431-436; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.431
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  Namibia and Germany: Negotiating the Past. By Reinhart Kössler. Windhoek: University of Namibia Press and Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2015. xiii + 377 pages + many b/w and color illustrations. $42.00 / €39,90.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Joachim Zeller

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 436-439; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.436
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  Walter Benjamins Übersetzungsästhetik. Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers im Kontext von Benjamins Frühwerk und seiner Zeit. Von Julia Abel. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014. 399 Seiten. €45,00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Rolf J. Goebel

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 439-441; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.439
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  Robert Gilbert. Eine zeitgeschichtliche Biografie. Von Christian Walther. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016. 435 Seiten. €84,95

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Alan Lareau

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 441-443; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.441
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  Heidegger and the Media. By David Gunkel and Paul A. Taylor. Cambridge; Oxford; Boston: Polity, 2014. xiii + 196 pages + 5 b/w illustrations. $59.95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Markus Weidler

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 443-446; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.443
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  Sociability and Its Enemies: German Political Theory After 1945. By Jakob Norberg. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014. 240 pages. $80.00 hardcover, $39.95 paperback.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Peter Uwe Hohendahl

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 446-449; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.446
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  Heimat, Space, Narrative: Toward a Transnational Approach to Flight and Expulsion. By Friederike Eigler. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. xi + 211 pages. $75.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Anke S. Biendarra

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 449-451; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.449
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  Heimat, Loss and Identity: Flight and Expulsion in German Literature from the 1950s to the Present. By Karina Berger. Oxford, Bern, et al.: Peter Lang, 2014. viii + 227 pages. $97.95., and: Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works. By Bill Niven. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. 219 pages. $85.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Friederike Eigler

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 451-455; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.451
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  East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History. By Sebastian Heiduschke. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. x + 196 pages + 12 b/w illustrations. $28.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Stefan Soldovieri

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 455-457; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.455
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  Into the Groove: Popular Music and Contemporary German Fiction. By Andrew Wright Hurley. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. ix + 272 pages. $85.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Ulrich Adelt

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 457-458; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.457
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  W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography. By Lynn L. Wolff. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. xii + 297 pages. $126.00.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Stephan Jaeger

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 458-460; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.458
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  Antikenkonfigurationen in der deutschsprachigen Lyrik nach 1990. Von Aniela Knoblich. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. xi + 382 Seiten. €99,95.

  B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Erk Grimm

  Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 460-463; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.460