Departmental Publications
Focus on German Studies has the following books available for review.
If interested, please contact Marie Buesch, Book Review Editor, Focus
on German Studies, Dept. of German Studies, University of Cincinnati,
PO Box 210372, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372. You can also reach us via
e-mail at fogs.bookreviews@gmail.com.
Books
Available for Review
Guidelines
for Book Reviews
Submission
About
Focus Book Reviews
Books Available for Review (Volume 16, 2009)
Primary Literature
Albrecht, Jörg. Sternstaub, Goldfunk, Silberstreif. Wallstein, 2008.
Ball, Hugo. Dramen. Wallstein,2008.
Bronsky, Alina. Scherbenpark. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 2008.
Handke, Peter. Die morawische Nacht. Suhrkamp, 2007.
Kühn, Dieter. Gertrud Kolmar. Leben und Werk, Zeit und Tod. Fischer, 2008.
Meckel, Christoph. Nachtsaison. Hanser, 2008.
Ortheil, Hanns-Josef. Das Verlangen nach Liebe. Luchterhand, 2007.
Orths, Markus. Das Zimmermädchen. Schöffling, 2008.
Tellkamp, Uwe. Der Turm. Geschichte aus einem versunkenen Land. Suhrkamp, 2008.
Zaimoglu, Feridun. Liebesbrand. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 2008.
Zange, Julia. Die Anstalt der besseren Mädchen. Suhrkamp, 2008.
Secondary Literature
Aly, Götz. Unser Kampf: 1968 – ein irritierter Blick zurück. Fischer, 2008.
Beilein, Matthias. 86 und die Folgen: Robert Schindel, Robert Menasse und Doron Rabinovici im literarischen Feld Österreichs. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2008.
Berendse, Gerrit-Jan und Ingo Cornils. Eds. Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism. Rodopi, 2008.
Cheesman, Tom.Novels of Turkish German Settlement. Cosmopolite Fictions. Camden House, 2007.
Classen, Albrecht. Ed. Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme. Gruyter, 2008.
Fay, Jennifer. Theaters of Occupation. Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Haase, Christine. When Heimat Meets Hollywood. German Filmmakers and America, 1985-2005. Camden House, 2007.
König, Christoph.Häme als literarisches Verfahren. Günter Grass, Walter Jens und die Mühen des Erinnerns. Wallstein, 2008.
Long, J.J. W.G. Sebald. Image, Archive, Modernity. Columbia University Press, 2008.
Presner, Todd. Mobile Modernity. Germans, Jews, Trains. Columbia University Press, 2007.
Schaller-Fornoff, Branka. Novelle und Erregung: Zur Neuperspektivierung der Gattung am Beispiel von Michael Kleebergs „Barfuß“. Olms, 2008.
Scharf, Inga. Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema. Homeless at Home. Routledge, 2008.
Weber, Samuel.Benjamin's -abilities. Harvard University Press, 2008.
Weymann, Ulrike. Intermediale Grenzgänge. Das Gespräch der drei Gehenden von Peter Weiss, Gehen von Thomas Bernhard und Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire von Peter Handke. Carl Winter, 2007.
Please
note: books are continually added to the list for review.
Guidelines
For Book Reviews (top)
The review should be a critical review in which the plot and/or content shine through so that even readers unfamiliar with the book or authors can get a comprehensive impression. No explicit plot summary is necessary. The focus should be a critical engagement with the quality of the argument (for secondary texts) or the quality of the literary aesthetic (for primary literature). Reviewers with previous research experience in the appropriate field are preferred.
Elements to include are: stylistic, thematic and biographic aspects of the work, as well as an attempt to situate the work within the existing intellectual framework.
The review should weave all these facets together in one comprehensive and comprehensible text. The review should inspire the curiosity in the reader by placing the work in a larger literary and/or intellectual trajectory.
Reviews may be in either German or English and between 2-5 double-spaced pages, set in 12 point Times New Roman. Follow the basic guidelines for scholarly writing as outlined in the MLA Style Manual. Begin your review with a heading in the following format: AUTHOR. Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date. Pages. Price. – For example: ERICH LOEST. Katerfrühstück. Leipzig: Linden-Verlag, 1992. 240 pp. € 36.00.
Conclude the review with a single line containing the affiliation of the reviewer at the left margin and the name of the reveiwer on the right, as in the following example:
University of Cincinnati Jane Doe
Avoid using footnotes and keep quotations to a minimum. Include the page number(s) of any quotations in parenthetical reference: “Er müßte oft hinüber und herüber wandern, fand er, um Trennungsgefühle abzubauen” (170). Double-space the entire review, including the heading and quotations.
Submission
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Please submit your review as an MS Word email attachment to fogs.bookreviews@gmail.com.
Should you have any questions, please contact us at:
Focus on German Studies,
Attn: Marie Buesch
PO Box 210372, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372
The deadline for book reviews will be Friday, February 1st, 2009.
About
Focus Book Reviews (top)
The German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati is in its sixteenth year of publishing the scholarly journal "Focus on German Studies."
The journal is an outlet exclusively for graduate students, publishing articles and book reviews in English and German on topics concerning any area of Austrian, German, Swiss or German-American fiction, poetry, drama and secondary literature.
The purpose of our book review section is to introduce our readership to primary and secondary works published within the last two years. Our aim is to discuss the work thematically and stylistically and, when possible, to contextualize the work within the author’s oeuvre or its respective genre. We have the cooperation of major Austrian, German and Swiss publishers and can provide review copies.
