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Author : Peter Freese
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Germany and German Thought in American Literature and Cultural Criticism written by Peter Freese and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297787
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Images of Germany in American Literature written by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although German Americans number almost 43 million and are the largest ethnic group in the United States, scholars of American literature have paid little attention to this influential and ethnically diverse cultural group. In a work of unparalleled depth and range, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz explores the cultural and historical background of the varied images of Germany and Germans throughout the past two centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach known as comparative imagology, which borrows from social psychology and cultural anthropology, Zacharasiewicz samples a broad spectrum of original sources, including literary works, letters, diaries, autobiographical accounts, travelogues, newspaper reports, films, and even cartoons and political caricatures. Starting with the notion of Germany as the ideal site for academic study and travel in the nineteenth century and concluding with the twentieth-century image of Germany as an aggressive country, this innovative work examines the ever-changing image of Germans and Germany in the writings of Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Clemens, Henry James, William James, George Santayana, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Katherine Anne Porter, Kay Boyle, Thomas Wolfe, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, William Styron, Walker Percy, and John Hawkes, among others.
Author : Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226705811
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book American Nietzsche written by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality, the Enlightenment faith in reason, and the idea of human equality. Despite that, for more than a century Nietzsche has been a hugely popular—and surprisingly influential—figure in American thought and culture. In American Nietzsche, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen delves deeply into Nietzsche's philosophy, and America’s reception of it, to tell the story of his curious appeal. Beginning her account with Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom the seventeen-year-old Nietzsche read fervently, she shows how Nietzsche’s ideas first burst on American shores at the turn of the twentieth century, and how they continued alternately to invigorate and to shock Americans for the century to come. She also delineates the broader intellectual and cultural contexts within which a wide array of commentators—academic and armchair philosophers, theologians and atheists, romantic poets and hard-nosed empiricists, and political ideologues and apostates from the Left and the Right—drew insight and inspiration from Nietzsche’s claims for the death of God, his challenge to universal truth, and his insistence on the interpretive nature of all human thought and beliefs. At the same time, she explores how his image as an iconoclastic immoralist was put to work in American popular culture, making Nietzsche an unlikely posthumous celebrity capable of inspiring both teenagers and scholars alike. A penetrating examination of a powerful but little-explored undercurrent of twentieth-century American thought and culture, American Nietzsche dramatically recasts our understanding of American intellectual life—and puts Nietzsche squarely at its heart.
Author : Josef Raab
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825800393
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA written by Josef Raab and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas the cultural and political influence of the U.S. on Europe and Germany has been researched extensively, the impact of more than 6 million German immigrants on U.S.-American history and culture has received far less scholarly attention. Therefore this volume addresses a wide range of areas in which a German presence has been manifesting itself in the U.S. for more than three centuries. Among the disciplines involved in this broad analysis are linguistics, literary studies, history, economics, musicology as well as media studies and cultural studies.
Author : Frank Trommler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800734956
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The German-American Encounter written by Frank Trommler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can claim to be part of each other's history, and yet the question arises whether this claim indicates more than a historical interlude in the forming of the Atlantic civilization. In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.
Author : Detlef Junker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521834201
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990 written by Detlef Junker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Hugh Ridley
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021837
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book 'Relations Stop Nowhere' written by Hugh Ridley and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its material does not come from the familiar overlaps of individual German and American writers, but from the work of the literary historians of the two countries after 1815, when American intellectuals took Germany as a model for their project to create an American national literature. The first part of the book examines fundamental structural affinities between the two literary histories and the common problems these caused, especially in questions of canon, realism, aesthetics and in the marginalization of popular and women's writing. In the second part, significant figures whose work straddle the two literatures - from Sealsfield and Melville, Whitman and Thomas Mann to Nietzsche, Emerson and Bellow - are discussed in detail, and the arguments of the first part are shown in their relevance to understanding major writers. This book is not merely comparative in scope: it shows that only international comparison can explain the course of American literary history in the nineteenth and twentieth century. As recent developments in American Studies explore the multi-cultural and 'hybrid' nature of the American tradition, this book offers evidence of the dependencies which linked American and German national literary history.
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Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Total Pages : 2067 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] written by Linda De Roche and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 2067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.
Author : Gabriele Duerbeck
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498514936
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture written by Gabriele Duerbeck and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought from the age of Goethe to the present. In a broad spectrum of essays from different periods, disciplines, and genres, it conveys both the uniqueness and the transnational significance of German ecological thought.
Author : Harvey Waterman Hewett-Thayer
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Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book American Literature as Viewed in Germany, L8l8-l861 written by Harvey Waterman Hewett-Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Severs
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1611490650
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Pynchon's Against the Day written by Jeffrey Severs and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades-from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I-and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide offers eleven essays by established luminaries and emerging voices in the field of Pynchon criticism, each addressing a significant aspect of the novel's manifold interests. By focusing on three major thematic trajectories (the novel's narrative strategies; its commentary on science, belief, and faith; and its views on politics and economics), the contributors contend that Against the Day is not only a major addition to Pynchon's already impressive body of work but also a defining moment in the emergence of twenty-first century American literature.
Author : David E. Barclay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521534420
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Transatlantic Images and Perceptions written by David E. Barclay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book analyses how German and American views of each other developed, providing a fresh analysis of an often complex relationship.
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Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823341628
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
Download or read book REAL Volume 8 (1991/1992) written by and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Parker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004312099
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century written by Joshua Parker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all European cities, Americans today are perhaps most curious about Berlin, whose position in the American imagination is an essential component of nineteenth-century, postwar and contemporary transatlantic imagology. Over various periods, Berlin has been a tenuous space for American claims to cultural heritage and to real geographic space in Europe, symbolizing the ultimate evil and the power of redemption. This volume offers a comprehensive examination of the city’s image in American literature from 1840 to the present. Tracing both a history of Berlin and of American culture through the ways the city has been narrated across three centuries by some 100 authors through 145 novels, short stories, plays and poems, Tales of Berlin presents a composite landscape not only of the German capital, but of shifting subtexts in American society which have contextualized its meaning for Americans in the past, and continue to do so today.
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Download or read book English and American studies in German written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Butter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620809
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Epitome of Evil written by M. Butter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the literary representations of Adolf Hitler in American fiction and makes the case that his figure has slowly developed from a means of left-wing critique into a device of right-wing affirmation.
Author : Tom Huhn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521775007
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Adorno written by Tom Huhn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accomplished musician Adorno first focused on the theory of culture and art. Later he turned to the problem of the self-defeating dialectic of modern reason and freedom. In this collection of essays, imbued with the most up-to-date research, a distinguished roster of Adorno specialists explore the full range of his contributions to philosophy, history, music theory, aesthetics and sociology.
