Table of Contents

September 01, 2016; Volume 108,Issue 3

Special Issue: Measuring the World

A

  1. Adelt, Ulrich

    1. 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

  2. Allen, Julie K.

    1. Taking the Measure of National Greatness: Georg Brandes’s Condemnation of German Imperialism
      Julie K. Allen
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 321-331; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.321

B

  1. Biendarra, Anke S.

    1. 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

E

  1. Eigler, Friederike

    1. 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

  2. Eldridge, Hannah V.

    1. 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

G

  1. Gillman, Abigail

    1. 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

  2. Goebel, Rolf J.

    1. 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

  3. Goßens, Peter

    1. Das Wetterleuchten der Weltliteratur. Eine Debatte um 1900.
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Peter Goßens
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 332-349; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.332

  4. Grimm, Erk

    1. 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

  5. Grossman, Jeffrey

    1. 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

H

  1. Halle, Randall

    1. German Visual Culture: From National to European Style
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Randall Halle
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 372-382; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.372

  2. Hohendahl, Peter Uwe

    1. 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

J

  1. Jaeger, Stephan

    1. 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

  2. Jones, Claire Taylor

    1. 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

K

  1. Kluge, Cora Lee

    1. Transatlantic Crossings and Transformations: German-American Cultural Transfer from the 18th to the End of the 19th 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

  2. Kontje, Todd

    1. 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

  3. Krapp, Peter

    1. 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

L

  1. Lareau, Alan

    1. 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

M

  1. May-Chu, Karolina

    1. Measuring the Borderland in Sabrina Janesch’s Katzenberge (2010)
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Karolina May-Chu
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 350-361; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.350

N

  1. Niekerk, Carl

    1. 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

P

  1. Potter, Pamela M.

    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. 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
    4. 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
    5. Worlding versus Worldview: Heidegger’s Thinking on Art as a Critique of German Historicism
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Katherine M. Robiadek
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 383-394; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.383
    6. 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
    7. 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
    8. 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
    9. China Circulating in Early Modern German Print Media
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Daniel Purdy
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 362-371; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.362
    10. Measuring the World Preface
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter, B. Venkat Mani and Pamela M. Potter
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 313-320; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.313
    11. Measuring the World Preface
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter, B. Venkat Mani and Pamela M. Potter
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 313-320; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.313
    12. 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
    13. 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
    14. 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
    15. 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
    16. 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
    17. 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
    18. 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
    19. 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
    20. 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
    21. German Visual Culture: From National to European Style
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Randall Halle
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 372-382; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.372
    22. 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
    23. Transatlantic Crossings and Transformations: German-American Cultural Transfer from the 18th to the End of the 19th 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
    24. 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
    25. 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
    26. 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
    27. 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
    28. Linguistic Borderlands Exploring the Role of Language in Uwe Timm’s Morenga
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Lisa Yager
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 395-402; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.395
    29. Das Wetterleuchten der Weltliteratur. Eine Debatte um 1900.
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Peter Goßens
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 332-349; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.332
    30. Measuring the Borderland in Sabrina Janesch’s Katzenberge (2010)
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Karolina May-Chu
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 350-361; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.350
    31. 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
    32. 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
    33. 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

  2. Purdy, Daniel

    1. China Circulating in Early Modern German Print Media
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Daniel Purdy
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 362-371; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.362

R

  1. Robiadek, Katherine M.

    1. Worlding versus Worldview: Heidegger’s Thinking on Art as a Critique of German Historicism
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Katherine M. Robiadek
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 383-394; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.383

  2. Rotter, Marcel P.

    1. 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

S

  1. Sammons, Jeffrey L.

    1. 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

  2. Schaumann, Caroline

    1. 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

  3. Schmidt, Johannes

    1. 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

  4. Schmitz-Emans, Monika

    1. 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

  5. Schwebel, Shoshana

    1. 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

  6. Soldovieri, Stefan

    1. 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

V

  1. Venkat Mani, B.

    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. 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
    4. 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
    5. Worlding versus Worldview: Heidegger’s Thinking on Art as a Critique of German Historicism
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Katherine M. Robiadek
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 383-394; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.383
    6. 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
    7. 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
    8. 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
    9. China Circulating in Early Modern German Print Media
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Daniel Purdy
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 362-371; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.362
    10. Measuring the World Preface
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter, B. Venkat Mani and Pamela M. Potter
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 313-320; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.313
    11. Measuring the World Preface
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter, B. Venkat Mani and Pamela M. Potter
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 313-320; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.313
    12. 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
    13. 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
    14. 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
    15. 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
    16. 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
    17. 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
    18. 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
    19. 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
    20. 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
    21. German Visual Culture: From National to European Style
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Randall Halle
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 372-382; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.372
    22. 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
    23. Transatlantic Crossings and Transformations: German-American Cultural Transfer from the 18th to the End of the 19th 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
    24. 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
    25. 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
    26. 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
    27. 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
    28. Linguistic Borderlands Exploring the Role of Language in Uwe Timm’s Morenga
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Lisa Yager
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 395-402; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.395
    29. Das Wetterleuchten der Weltliteratur. Eine Debatte um 1900.
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Peter Goßens
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 332-349; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.332
    30. Measuring the Borderland in Sabrina Janesch’s Katzenberge (2010)
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Karolina May-Chu
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 350-361; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.350
    31. 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
    32. 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
    33. 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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  1. Weidler, Markus

    1. 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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  1. Yager, Lisa

    1. Linguistic Borderlands Exploring the Role of Language in Uwe Timm’s Morenga
      B. Venkat Mani, Pamela M. Potter and Lisa Yager
      Monatshefte, September 2016, 108 (3) 395-402; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.108.3.395

Z

  1. Zeller, Joachim

    1. 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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