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  Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures. By Aamir R. Mufti. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. xii + 292 pages. $35.00.

  B. Venkat Mani

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 453-456; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.453

  B. Venkat Mani

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

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  Geistiger Handelsverkehr. Streifzüge im Zeitalter der Weltliteratur. Mit Erinnerungen von Karl S. Guthke an die „Goldenen Jahre“ der akademischen Migration. Von Karl S. Guthke. Tübingen: Francke, 2015. ix + 295 Seiten. €39,90.

  Peter Goßens

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 457-459; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.457

  Peter Goßens

  Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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  Sprachen des Sammelns. Literatur als Medium und Reflexionsform des Sammelns. Herausgegeben von Sarah Schmidt. Paderborn: Fink, 2016. 729 Seiten + 67 s/w und 10 farbige Abbildungen. €79,00.

  Monika Schmitz-Emans

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 459-464; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.459

  Monika Schmitz-Emans

  Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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  Zeit der Darstellung. Ästhetische Eigenzeiten in Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft. Herausgegeben von Michael Gamper und Helmut Hühn. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2014. 398 Seiten + 44 s/w and farbige Abbildungen. €34,00.

  Catriona MacLeod

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 464-466; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.464

  Catriona MacLeod

  University of Pennsylvania

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  Kunst & Komik. Herausgegeben von Friedrich W. Block. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2016. 297 Seiten + zahlreiche Abbildungen. €34,80.

  Jill E. Twark

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 466-469; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.466

  Jill E. Twark

  East Carolina University

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  Catastrophe and Catharsis: Perspectives on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond. Edited by Katharina Gerstenberger and Tanja Nusser. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. vii + 236 pages. $90.00.

  Gundolf Graml

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 469-472; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.469

  Gundolf Graml

  Agnes Scott College

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  Vom Gottesgericht zur verhängnisvollen Natur. Darstellung und Bewältigung von Naturkatastrophen im 18. Jahrhundert. Von Christoph Weber. Hamburg: Meiner, 2015. 414 Seiten + 19 s/w Abbildungen. €78,00.

  Thorsten Unger

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 472-475; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.472

  Thorsten Unger

  Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

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  The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century: More than a Bestseller. Edited by Daniela Richter. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016. 276 pages. £52.99.

  Jeffrey L. Sammons

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 475-478; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.475

  Jeffrey L. Sammons

  Yale University

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  The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry. By Roger Paulin, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2016. xiv + 664 pages + 106 illustrations. £44.95 hardcover, £29.95 paperback, £0.00 PDF, £5.95 e-book.

  Johannes Schmidt

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 478-480; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.478

  Johannes Schmidt

  Clemson University

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  Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by Joanne Miyang Cho, Lee M. Roberts, and Christian W. Spang. New York: Palgrave, 2016. 280 pages. $100.00.

  Chunjie Zhang

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 480-482; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.480

  Chunjie Zhang

  University of California, Davis

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  Dekadenz. Oberfläche und Tiefe in der Kunst um 1900. Von Martin Urmann. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2016. 711 Seiten, €42,00.

  Rolf J. Goebel

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 482-485; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.482

  Rolf J. Goebel

  University of Alabama in Huntsville

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  Die Literatur der Lebensreform. Kulturkritik und Aufbruchstimmung um 1900. Herausgegeben von Thorsten Carstensen und Marcel Schmid. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. 352 Seiten. €39,99.

  Peter Keitel

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 485-487; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.485

  Peter Keitel

  Bucknell University

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  The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany. By Patrizia C. McBride. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2016. x + 236 pages + 26 b/w illustrations. $90.00 hardcover, $39.95 paperback., and: Stop Reading! Look! Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book. By Pepper Stetler. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2015. x + 252 pages + 77 b/w illustrations. $60.00 hardcover, $48.95 eBook.

  Justin Court

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 487-490; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.487

  Justin Court

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

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  Mapping Berlin: Representations of Space in the Weimar Feuilleton. By Frances Mossop. Bern: Peter Lang, 2015. xxiii + 223 pages + 6 b/w illustrations. €53,00 / $64.95.

  Erhard Schütz

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 490-494; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.490

  Erhard Schütz

  Humboldt-Universität

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  “Doch ist das Wirkliche auch vergessen, so ist es darum nicht getilgt”. Beiträge zum Werk Siegfried Kracauers. Herausgegeben von Jörn Ahrens, Paul Fleming, Suzanne Martin und Ulrike Vedder. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017. vii + 392 Seiten + 8 s/w Abbildungen. €51,99 broschiert, €22,99 eBook.

  Marcus Bullock

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 494-496; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.494

  Marcus Bullock

  University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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  Wilde Moderne. Der Bildhauer Fritz Behn (1878–1970). Von Joachim Zeller. Berlin: Nicolai, 2016. 215 Seiten. €39,95.

  Sabine Wilke

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 496-498; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.496

  Sabine Wilke

  University of Washington–Seattle

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  Hermann-Broch-Handbuch. Herausgegeben von Michael Kessler und Paul Michael Lützeler. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2015. xv + 670 Seiten. €149,95 / $210.00.

  Jennifer Jenkins

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 498-500; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.498

  Jennifer Jenkins

  Pacific Lutheran University

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  Heideggers „große Politik“. Die semantische Revolution der Gesamtausgabe. Von Reinhard Mehring. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. xiii + 334 Seiten. €49,00.

  Brad Prager

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 501-503; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.501

  Brad Prager

  University of Missouri

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  Musical Biographies: The Music of Memory in Post-1945 German Literature. By Michal Ben-Horin. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2016. viii + 173 pages. €79,95 / $112.00.

  Rolf J. Goebel

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 503-505; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.503

  Rolf J. Goebel

  University of Alabama in Huntsville

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  Weltliteratur in der DDR. Debatten—Rezeption—Kulturpolitik. Herausgegeben von Peter Goβens und Monika Schmitz-Emans. Berlin: Ch. A. Bachmann, 2015. 367 Seiten. €25,00., and: Weltliteratur aus der DDR. Relektüren. Herausgegeben von Peter Goßens und Monika Schmitz-Emans. Berlin: Ch. A. Bachmann, 2014. 180 Seiten. €8,00.

  Stephen Brockmann

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 505-508; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.505

  Stephen Brockmann

  Carnegie Mellon University

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  „Im weißen Rößl“. Kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven. Herausgegeben von Nils Grosch und Carolin Stahrenberg. Münster: Waxmann, 2016. 338 Seiten + zahlreiche s/w und farbige Abbildungen. €39,90 broschiert, €35,99 eBook.

  Alan Lareau

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 508-509; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.508

  Alan Lareau

  University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh

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  Returning Memories: Former Prisoners of War in Divided and Reunited Germany. By Christiane Wienand. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. xv + 346 pages + 5 b/w illustrations. $90.00.

  Mélanie Yœurp

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 509-511; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.509

  Mélanie Yœurp

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

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  Forgotten Dreams: Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog. By Laurie Ruth Johnson. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2016. 298 pages + 25 color illustrations. $90.00.

  Margit Grieb

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 512-514; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.512

  Margit Grieb

  University of South Florida–Tampa

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  Navid Kermani. Edited by Helga Druxes, Karolin Machtans, and Alexandar Mihailovic. Oxford, Bern, New York: Peter Lang, 2016. xii + 221 pages. $68.95.

  Monika Shafi

  Monatshefte, September 2017, 109 (3) 514-516; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.3.514

  Monika Shafi

  University of Delaware

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