Mellen Books by: Karl Guthke

• Epitaph Culture in the West Variations on a Theme in Cultural History

About Karl Guthke

About the author: Karl S. Guthke is the Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University. He is a member of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, England; a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities Edinburgh; the Humanities Research Centre, Canberra; and the Wolfenbüttel Research Centre. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Institute of German Studies, London. His recent books include B. Traven: The Life Behind the Legends, The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds, from the Copernican Revolution to Science Fiction, The Gender of Death, and Der Blick in die Fremde.