Title: Queering the canon
Description: This collection of essays exposes points of queerness, marginality, and alterity present in the German canon and introduces further deviation from traditional German literature and culture in the form of openly lesbian and gay works. It provides new queer analyses of texts by canonical authors such as Goethe, Schiller. Thomas and Klaus Mann, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Reinig, and Elfriede Jelinek, yet discusses works that have seldom received scholarly attention.

It also breaks the traditional limitation of Germanistik to the study of literature by including essays on aspects of German culture such as music, film, fine art and art history, and politics and law.
Subjects: History and criticism, Theory, German literature, Philosophy, Gay and lesbian studies, Homosexuality and art, Homosexuality, German Arts, Homosexuality and literature, German literature, history and criticism, Germany, civilization, German literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Gays in literature