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GERMAN? AMERICAN? LITERATURE?
NEW DIRECTIONS IN GERMAN-AMERICAN STUDIES |
| By: |
Winfried Fluck (Editor), Werner Sollors (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£61.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820452297 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820452296 |
| Publisher: |
PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2002 |
| Series: |
New Directions in German-American Studies 2 |
| Pages: |
419 |
| Synopsis: |
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2002. ill. New Directions in German-American Studies. Vol. 2 General Editor: Werner Sollors More than 25,000 German-language titles have been published in the United States from the colonial period to the twentieth century. This book gives a fresh look at this rich historical tradition, with essays discussing all genres of this colorful literature, ranging from immigrant letters to experimental German-language poetry by Jewish women, from German-American novelists and playwrights to Austrian refugee publishers and a psychological theorist of the movies. German? American? Literature? reintroduces the modern reader to a fascinating subject that has gained new relevance in an age of increased global migrations. Contents: Werner Sollors: The German American Tradition Reconsidered - Sander L. Gilman: German? American? Literature? - Some Thoughts on the Problem of Question Marks and Hyphens - Frank Trommler: Literary Scholarship and Ethnic Studies: A Reevaluation - Alfred L. Brophy: The Intellectual World of a Seventeenth-Century Jurist: Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Reconstruction of Pietist Thought - Tatjana Koncilia: The Moravian Spiritual Autobiography: A Tale of Personal Faith or an Instrument of Community Discipline? - Kenneth Kronenberg: Personal Traits, Success, and Failure in Immigration: The Letters of the Van Dreveldts - Elliott Shore: The Mysteries of Philadelphia in 1850: The German American Context - Irene S. Di Maio: Unity and Diversity in Friedrich Gerstacker's Novels of North American Immigration - Theodore Gish: Literature and German-Language Publications in Texas - Britta Behmer: From German CulturalCriticism to Abolitionism. Ottilie Assing: « Zealous to give vent to her gall - Winfried Fluck: The Man Who Became Weary of America: Ferdinand Kurnberger's Novel Der Amerika-Mude (1855) - Sieglinde Lemke: Transatlantic Relations: The German Du Bois - Sabine Haenni: Constituting a Public: German Jewish Contact, German American Theater, and the Formation of German American Ethnicity in the 1890s - Lawrence Rosenwald: Language Traitors, Translation, and Die Emigranten - Peter Conolly-Smith: Hugo Munsterberg's Life, Career and Photoplay: A Psychological Study - Walter Holbling: The Collector, the Educator, and the Humanist: Austrian Publishers and Book Dealers in the USA after 1938 - Frauke Lenckos: « Homeless: The Poetry of Anna Krommer - Kathleen Rose: Simkhe: Yiddish Words of Love - Heike Paul: Multilingualism and Metaphors of Musicality: Israel Zangwill, Jeannette Lander, Ferdinand Kurnberger - Norbert Krapf: The Complications in Making an American Book of Poems about Germany - Gert Niers: Same Place, Other Language: German Literature from America. |
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| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
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