Over 60 volumes
German Life and Letters
Edited by:
Gail Finney, Margaret Littler, J. M. Ritchie, John Sandford, R. C. Speirs and Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Long established as the leading journal in British German Studies, German Life and Letters offers a wide range of articles dealing with literary and non-literary concerns in the German-speaking world.
Contributions cover German thought and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, including literature, language and the visual arts, as well as social history and politics.
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The online content of German Life and Letters is now available back to Volume 1 (1936-7). To view the back issues click here.
To mark the on-line publication of the complete back-issues, the Editors have put together a 'Virtual Issue' of past articles; click here to read the articles for free. To read the Editors' introduction to the Virtual Issue click here.
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Recent Sample Articles
Ancient Fears and the New Order: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Reason
Susanne Kord
Hermanns Schlachten: Gender, Culture and the German Nation in the Long Eighteenth Century
Elystan Griffiths
From Luther to Hitler: Ordinary Germans, National Socialism and Germany's Cultural Heritage in F.C. Delius's Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau
Stuart Taberner
Natürlichkeit: Eine strukturelle und pragmatische Kategorie der Sprachnormierung in Texten der frühen Neuzeit
Andreas Gardt
Kafka's Josefine die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse
Michael Minden
Querelle du Théâtre: Literarische Legitimationsdiskurse (Gottsched, Schiller, Sulzer)
Carsten Zelle
Keyed Fantasies: Music, the Accordion and the American Dream in Stroszek and Schultze gets the Blues
Emily Hauze
Turkish Girls, Allah's Daughters, and the Contemporary German Subject: Itinerary of a Figure
Yasemin Yıldız
Recent Special Issues
Crossing Boundaries
Edited by Jim Jordan
Flaschenpost: German Poetry and the Long Twentieth Century
Edited by Karen Leeder
Ver/Ordnungen: Rethinking the German Enlightenment
Edited by Susanne Kord and Ruth Whittle
Cultural Pleasure
Edited by Michael Minden and Lucia Ruprecht
