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	A Companion to German Realism 1848-1900 Edited by Todd Kontje This outstanding collection of essays on the writing of this period provides an excellent overview of this great age of fiction. — CHOICE ISBN: 9781571134455
	A Companion to Goethe's Faust Edited by Paul Bishop [A]s a coherent, accessible, often masterful introduction to a vast and complex work, this volume fulfills its promise. — GOETHE YEARBOOK ISBN: 9781571133359
	A Companion to Gottfried Von Strassburg's Tristan Edited by Will Hasty Essays by outstanding European and American medievalists on major aspects of the most enduring medieval epic. ISBN: 9781571134462
	A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism Edited by Neil H. Donahue Essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism. ISBN: 9781571134554
	A Companion to the Nibelungenlied Edited by Winder McConnell Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed. ISBN: 9781571134592
	A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin Edited by Roland Dollinger, Wulf Koepke & Heidi Thomann Tewarson A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one of the leading 20th-century German writers. ISBN: 9781571134608
	A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti Edited by Dagmar C. G. Lorez Overall, the book presents an image of Canetti's work that is reflective of his own style, in part by resisting a simple chronological organization. — GERMAN QUARTERLY ISBN: 9781571134080
	A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka Edited by James Rolleston This is a particularly successful collection [...] several of whose individual studies will undoubtedly become touchstones of future Kafka research. — GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW ISBN: 9781571133366
	A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller Edited by Steven D. Martinson Cutting-edge essays by some of the world's leading Schiller experts providing an in-depth view of the many facets of the work of the great world poet and playwright. ISBN: 9781571134547
	A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Edited by Barbara Fischer & Thomas C. Fox Essays providing a comprehensive view of the pathbreaking dramatist and theorist Lessing. ISBN: 9781571134523
	A Companion to the Works of Grimmelshausen Edited by Karl F. Otto The quality of analysis of the 12 contributors is consistently high, and the essays are very readable. The volume constitutes an excellent contribution to the study of the most relevant German author of the Baroque. — CHOICE ISBN: 9781571134479
	A Companion to the Works of Hartmann von Aue Edited by Francis G. Gentry A welcome and superlative summation of the current status of Hartmann von Aue scholarship. — CHOICE ISBN: 9781571134486
	A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine Edited by Roger F. Cook These fine essays [...] make us aware of how modern a poet and thinker Heine remains, how remarkably dependent, and in his own way, how free. — GOETHE YEARBOOK ISBN: 9781571134493
	A Companion to the Works of Heinrich von Kleist Edited by Bernd Fischer This volume [...] succeeds in providing insight into the rich complexity of Kleist’s writings and [...] bears testimony to the continued relevance of his oeuvre today. — GERMAN QUARTERLY ISBN: 9781571134516
	A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal Edited by Thomas A. Kovach Essays by leading scholars re-examining major aspects of the work of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the great Austrian poet and dramatist. ISBN: 9781571134509
	A Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke Edited by Erika A. Metzger & Michael M. Metzger Editors and authors are all renowned Rilke specialists. The broad scope of their academic experience, careers, and area of critical activity guarantees the extremely high level of interest that this book evokes. — ARBITRIUM ISBN: 9781571133021
	A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil Edited by Philip Payne, Graham Bartram & Galin Tihanov A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time. ISBN: 9781571134530
	A Companion to the Works of Stefan George Edited by Jens Rieckmann This collection of nine essays is a rare addition to George scholarship in English. The editor’s introduction gives welcome attention to George’s early years [...] as well as an account of the George-Kreis, the troubled relationship with Hofmannsthal, and the poet’s encounter with Maximin. — GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW ISBN: 9781571134561
	A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard Edited by Matthias Konzett [S]ucceeds marvelously in placing Bernhard within the context of postwar Austria. — GERMAN QUARTERLY ISBN: 9781571134615
	A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann Edited by Herbert Lehnert & Eva Wessell Sixteen carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity. [The book gives] reliable and readable accounts of Mann’s works. It also introduces readers to current scholarship on those works. It thus accomplishes exactly what it is meant to do. It does so, moreover, in admirable breadth and depth. — MONATSHEFTE ISBN: 9781571134059
	A Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain Edited by Stephen D. Dowden Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann’s famous novel. American academics who provide much intellectual and imaginative verve and insight. — FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES ISBN: 9781571132482
	A Companion to the Warner's Parsifal Edited by William Kinderman & Katherine R. Syer Essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work. ISBN: 9781571134578
	A Companion to Wolfram's Parzifal Edited by Will Hasty Up-to-date criticsim and commentary on the greatest of the German courtly epics. ISBN: 9781571134585

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