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Teaching German in Twentieth-century America

Author : David P. Benseler
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299168308
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (683 download)

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Book Synopsis Teaching German in Twentieth-century America by : David P. Benseler

Download or read book Teaching German in Twentieth-century America written by David P. Benseler and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching a foreign language and culture is always a challenge, but it has been especially problematic to teach the German language and culture in the United States in the twentieth century. The tradition of Germany's great poets and thinkers of the past has been joined by a starker legacy. Through explorations of such topics as the world wars, the Holocaust, women in the language-teaching profession, Jewish contributions, and technology's impact on scholarship, this volume inspects the fascination and frustrating relationships of the two cultures as they interact through the teaching of German in American educational systems--from small liberal arts colleges to large and famous universities. This volume resulted from a conference, "Shaping Forces in American Germanics," held in Madison, Wisconsin in September 1996.

A German Generation

Author : Thomas A. Kohut
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300178042
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A German Generation written by Thomas A. Kohut and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.On the basis of sixty-two oral-history interviews, this book shows how this generation was shaped psychologically by a series of historically engendered losses over the course of the century. In response, this generation turned to the collective to repair the losses it had suffered, most fatefully to the community of the "Volk" during the Third Reich, a racial collective to which this generation was passionately committed and which was at the heart of National Socialism and its popular appeal.

Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century

Author : M. Charlotte Wolf
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486476324
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century written by M. Charlotte Wolf and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ideal for students, this affordable anthology features expert new translations of a dozen works previously unavailable in English. The translations appear alongside the original German text of such stories as "Beauty and the Beast" by Irmtraud Morgner, Gabriele Wohmann's "Good Luck and Bad Luck," and tales by other modern authors, including Grunert, Inneberger, and Klockmann"--

Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'

Author : Dirk Schumann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845459994
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child' written by Dirk Schumann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century, declared at its start to be the “Century of the Child” by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However, the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert influence as well as the rights and roles of mothers and fathers remained subjects of heated debates throughout the century. While there is a growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood, research in the field remains focused on national narratives. This volume compares the impact of state intervention and expert influence on theories and practices of raising children in the U.S. and German Central Europe. In particular, the contributors focus on institutions such as kindergartens and schools where the private and the public spheres intersected, on notions of “race” and “ethnicity,” “normality” and “deviance,” and on the impact of wars and changes in political regimes.

German Culture in Nineteenth-century America

Author : Lynne Tatlock
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133083
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis German Culture in Nineteenth-century America by : Lynne Tatlock

Download or read book German Culture in Nineteenth-century America written by Lynne Tatlock and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume examines the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the so-called long nineteenth century - the century of mass German migration to the new world, of industrialization and new technologies, American westward expansion and Civil War, German struggle toward national unity and civil rights, and increasing literacy on both sides of the Atlantic. Building on recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done under the rubric of cultural transfer, German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America places its emphasis on the processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed German cultural material for their own purposes. Informed by a conception of culture as multivalent, permeable, and protean, the book focuses on the mechanisms, agents, and means of mediation between cultural spaces."--BOOK JACKET.

German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917

Author : Henry Geitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521470834
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917 by : Henry Geitz

Download or read book German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917 written by Henry Geitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume summarizes recent scholarship on German-American relations in the field of education until World War I. The articles prove the various influences of German scholarship and institutions on the development of the American system of education from kindergarten to university. The book provides an overview for the benefit of scholars, students and the interested general reader. As a cooperative effort of German and American scholars the volume is intended to stimulate further exploration of these themes on both continents.

Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States

Author : Rachel J. Halverson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139133
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States by : Rachel J. Halverson

Download or read book Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States written by Rachel J. Halverson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the challenges facing German-language study in the new millennium and highlights how creative, innovative, inspired approaches have allowed it to weather many of them.

Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture

Author : Carol Poore
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472033816
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture by : Carol Poore

Download or read book Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture written by Carol Poore and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to present-day reunified Germany

Images of Germany in American Literature

Author : Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297787
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Book Synopsis Images of Germany in American Literature by : Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

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.

'Relations Stop Nowhere'

Author : Hugh Ridley
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021837
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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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.

Law, History, and Justice

Author : Annette Weinke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789201063
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Law, History, and Justice written by Annette Weinke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human-rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.

Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater

Author : Hellmut H. Rennert
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820444031
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater by : Hellmut H. Rennert

Download or read book Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater written by Hellmut H. Rennert and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles by both German literature specialists and German theater experts grew out of the Comparative Drama Conference held annually between February and March from 1977 to 1999 in Gainesville, Florida. At the center of the contributors' work is the productive tension between the literary and the performance aspects of German drama and theater. At the same time, the reception is truly American, since the German playwrights, directors, theorists, and dramatists discussed have gone through creative filters in the researching, performing, and teaching of German drama and theater on various campuses across the United States during the last third of the twentieth century.

The World of Children

Author : Simone Lässig
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202795
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The World of Children written by Simone Lässig and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed to teach young people about different cultures and world regions. These multifaceted contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies delve into the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world.

The Many Faces of Germany

Author : John Aloysius McCarthy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571810342
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Many Faces of Germany written by John Aloysius McCarthy and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the shifting of American foreign policy away from "old" Europe, long-established patterns of interaction between Germany and the U.S. have come under review. Although seemingly disconnected from the cultural and intellectual world, political developments were not without their influence on the humanities and their curricula during the past century. In retrospect, we can speak of the many different roles Germany has played in American eyes. The Many Faces of Germany seeks to acknowledge the importance of those incarnations for the study of German culture and history on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the major questions raised by the contributors is whether the transformations in the transatlantic dynamics and in the importance of Germany for the U.S. have had a major influence on the study of things German in the U.S. internally. The volume gathers together leading voices of the older and younger generations of social historians, literary scholars, film critics, and cultural historians.

Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought

Author : Eric S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350002577
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought written by Eric S. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a comprehensive portrayal of the reading of Chinese and Buddhist philosophy in early twentieth-century German thought, Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought examines the implications of these readings for contemporary issues in comparative and intercultural philosophy. Through a series of case studies from the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Eric Nelson focuses on the reception and uses of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism in German philosophy, covering figures as diverse as Buber, Heidegger, and Misch. He argues that the growing intertextuality between traditions cannot be appropriately interpreted through notions of exclusive identities, closed horizons, or unitary traditions. Providing an account of the context, motivations, and hermeneutical strategies of early twentieth-century European thinkers' interpretation of Asian philosophy, Nelson also throws new light on the question of the relation between Heidegger and Asian philosophy. Reflecting the growing interest in the possibility of intercultural and global philosophy, Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought opens up the possibility of a more inclusive intercultural conception of philosophy.

Pennsylvania Dutch

Author : Mark L. Louden
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418282
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Pennsylvania Dutch written by Mark L. Louden and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. What Is Pennsylvania Dutch? -- CHAPTER 2. Early History of Pennsylvania Dutch -- CHAPTER 3. Pennsylvania Dutch, 1800-1860 -- CHAPTER 4. Profiles in Pennsylvania Dutch Literature -- CHAPTER 5. Pennsylvania Dutch in the Public Eye -- CHAPTER 6. Pennsylvania Dutch and the Amish and Mennonites -- CHAPTER 7. An American Story -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Civic and Moral Learning in America

Author : D. Warren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403984727
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Civic and Moral Learning in America written by D. Warren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its formative years to the present, advocates of various persuasions have written and spoken about the country's need for moral and civic education. Responding in part to challenges posed by B. Edward McClellan, this book offers research findings on the ideas, people, and contexts that have influenced the acquisition of moral and civic learning in the America.