Images Of Germany In American Literature

Author : Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587297786

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Images of Germany in American Literature by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz Pdf

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 : Heinz D. Osterle
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X001639110

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Amerika! by Heinz D. Osterle Pdf

This volume of essays is the first to present in English a significant body of recent German literary fantasies and ideological speculations concerned with the United States. Included are reflections on the historical background, surveys of such major themes as the pursuit of happiness and the demythologization of its various aspects, and separate discussions of fiction, drama, and poetry in the form of general appraisals or special studies of representative writers and works. The volume ends with a political section dealing with the changing attitudes of Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Gunter Grass."

Author : Ulrike Miske
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640166619

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The Image of Germany and the Germans in Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying " and Walter Abish's "How German Is It " by Ulrike Miske Pdf

Examination Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn, 67 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: During the last two centuries the American perception of Germany has periodically shifted as both countries have been rivals, friends, opponents and most recently allies. This has also been mirrored in the periodically changing American picture of Germany and the Germans, which over the years generated an abundance of stereotypes. While on the one hand, positive images have emerged such as the 'naturally virtuous and scholarly German, ' there have been, on the other hand, numerous negative generalizations, for example, the 'hard drinking and violent Teuton.' These notions were often formed through hearsay, personal experiences and encounters with Germans at home and abroad, through literature and political-social relations between the United States and Germany. They are often persistently maintained, have resisted any revision and are frequently regarded as the standard of thought. The role of American literature in creating, sustaining and perpetuating images continues to be of particular importance and this needs to be examined if one wishes to understand how a wide range of long-lasting German stereotypes came into existence. The images of Germany and the Germans which are projected in the works of numerous American writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Erica Jong and Walter Abish, have become core images found in travelogues, novels, poetry and short fiction. This thesis surveys the images of Germany and the Germans in American literature from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century, and proceeds to focus on two selected works: Walter Abish's How German is It (1980) and Erica Jong's Fear of Flying (1973). Abish's novel is a natural choice for an endeavor of this nature as it is both an extensive and intensive explorat

Author : Joshua Parker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004312098

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Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century by Joshua Parker Pdf

This book traces the ways Berlin has been narrated across three centuries by some 100 authors. It presents a composite landscape not only of the German capital, but of shifting subtexts in American society.

Author : Ulrike Miske
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640159314

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The image of Germany and the Germans in Erica Jong’s "Fear of Flying " and Walter Abish’s "How German Is It " by Ulrike Miske Pdf

Examination Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn, 67 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: During the last two centuries the American perception of Germany has periodically shifted as both countries have been rivals, friends, opponents and most recently allies. This has also been mirrored in the periodically changing American picture of Germany and the Germans, which over the years generated an abundance of stereotypes. While on the one hand, positive images have emerged such as the ‘naturally virtuous and scholarly German,’ there have been, on the other hand, numerous negative generalizations, for example, the ‘hard drinking and violent Teuton.’ These notions were often formed through hearsay, personal experiences and encounters with Germans at home and abroad, through literature and political-social relations between the United States and Germany. They are often persistently maintained, have resisted any revision and are frequently regarded as the standard of thought. The role of American literature in creating, sustaining and perpetuating images continues to be of particular importance and this needs to be examined if one wishes to understand how a wide range of long-lasting German stereotypes came into existence. The images of Germany and the Germans which are projected in the works of numerous American writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Erica Jong and Walter Abish, have become core images found in travelogues, novels, poetry and short fiction. This thesis surveys the images of Germany and the Germans in American literature from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century, and proceeds to focus on two selected works: Walter Abish’s How German is It (1980) and Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (1973). Abish’s novel is a natural choice for an endeavor of this nature as it is both an extensive and intensive exploration of images attributed to German identity. Jong’s novel, on the other hand, is an exploration of individual identity in a German setting and has been selected because of its enormous role in the relatively new field of women’s studies.

Author : Jeanie Murphy,Elizabeth G. Rivero
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498547307

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The Image of the River in Latin/o American Literature by Jeanie Murphy,Elizabeth G. Rivero Pdf

Through the lens of ecocriticism, history, memory, and gender studies, this book studies the many ways in which the image of the river has been integrated into Latin/o American literature from the period of exploration and colonization to modern times, examining the imagery and symbolism tied to rivers in the writings of the region.

Author : Gregory Divers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132422

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The Image and Influence of America in German Poetry Since 1945 by Gregory Divers Pdf

Examines the image of the US in German poetry and the reception and influence of American poetry in Germany since 1945. This book focuses on the image of the US in German poetry and the reception of American poetry in Germany since 1945. Gregory Divers examines poems by major figures in 20th-century German literature - Benn, Brecht, Bachmann, Jandl, and Grass, among others - and by other poets who shaped America's postwar image in Germany. Divers traces America's postwar status in Germany from the prisoner-of-war poems of Günter Eich to the pop poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Peter Handke. Continuing, he finds that although the 1960s protest poems of Erich Fried and others reflect the tarnishing of America's image due to Vietnam, 1970s travel poems by Brinkmann, Kunert, and Kunze confirm the resiliency of that image. Finally, Divers looks at poems by Hartung, Delius, and Kling to illustrate the new heights reached by America's image within German literary circles during the 1980s, and the status of America in Germany after reunification. In charting these developments in postwar German poetry, Divers also shows how American influences are crucial to its understanding, not only surveying postwar German reception of Whitman, Eliot, Pound, and William Carlos Williams, but also examining the influence of such figures as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, and Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath. Gregory Divers is Assistant Professor of German at Saint Louis University.

Author : Peter Freese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015033093330

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Germany and German Thought in American Literature and Cultural Criticism by Peter Freese Pdf

Author : David E. Barclay,Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521534429

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Transatlantic Images and Perceptions by David E. Barclay,Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt Pdf

This 1997 book analyses how German and American views of each other developed, providing a fresh analysis of an often complex relationship.

Author : Louis Harap
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815629915

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The Image of the Jew in American Literature by Louis Harap Pdf

Praiseworthy and complete scholarship make this the definitive work on the subject.

Author : Uwe Küchler
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783825818654

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Explorations and Extrapolations by Uwe Küchler Pdf

This volume continues the tradition in the series Hallenser Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik of representing the full thematic diversity of research in English and American studies. The articles - mainly written by young researchers in their postgraduate or postdoctoral phases - span the areas of English and American literature, culture studies and linguistics as well as the teaching of English as a foreign language (Fachdidaktik). At the same time they represent various theoretical approaches adopted by young German researchers and the interplay of theoretical and applied issues.

Author : Julie Pfeiffer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496836281

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Transforming Girls by Julie Pfeiffer Pdf

Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence explores the paradox of the nineteenth-century girls’ book. On the one hand, early novels for adolescent girls rely on gender binaries and suggest that girls must accommodate and support a patriarchal framework to be happy. On the other, they provide access to imagined worlds in which teens are at the center. The early girls’ book frames female adolescence as an opportunity for productive investment in the self. This is a space where mentors who trust themselves, the education they provide, and the girl’s essentially good nature neutralize the girl’s own anxieties about maturity. These mid-nineteenth-century novels focus on female adolescence as a social category in unexpected ways. They draw not on a twentieth-century model of the alienated adolescent, but on a model of collaborative growth. The purpose of these novels is to approach adolescence—a category that continues to engage and perplex us—from another perspective, one in which fluid identity and the deliberate construction of a self are celebrated. They provide alternatives to cultural beliefs about what it was like to be a white, middle-class girl in the nineteenth century and challenge the assumption that the evolution of the girls’ book is always a movement towards less sexist, less restrictive images of girls. Drawing on forgotten bestsellers in the United States and Germany (where this genre is referred to as Backfischliteratur), Transforming Girls offers insightful readings that call scholars to reexamine the history of the girls’ book. It also outlines an alternate model for imagining adolescence and supporting adolescent girls. The awkward adolescent girl—so popular in mid-nineteenth-century fiction for girls—remains a valuable resource for understanding contemporary girls and stories about them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004465022

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Transatlantic Religion by Anonim Pdf

Transatlantic Religion offers a historical reinterpretation of nineteenth-century American Christianity, one that emphasizes European connections. Its authors represent a diverse group of international scholars offering new insights based on a range of analytical approaches to previously unexamined archival sources.

Author : James Retallack
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442628526

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Germany's Second Reich by James Retallack Pdf

Despite recent studies of imperial Germany that emphasize the empire's modern and reformist qualities, the question remains: to what extent could democracy have flourished in Germany's stony soil? In Germany's Second Reich, James Retallack continues his career-long inquiry into the era of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II with a wide-ranging reassessment of the period and its connections with past traditions and future possibilities. In this volume, Retallack reveals the complex and contradictory nature of the Second Reich, presenting Imperial Germany as it was seen by outsiders and insiders as well as by historians, political scientists, and sociologists ever since.

Author : Manfred Beller,Joseph Theodoor Leerssen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : National characteristics
ISBN : 9789042023185

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Imagology by Manfred Beller,Joseph Theodoor Leerssen Pdf

How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and national (cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73 contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures and cultures over many centuries; [2] an encyclopedic survey of the stereotypes and characterizations traditionally ascribed to various ethnicities and nationalities; and [3] a conspectus of relevant concepts in various cultural fields and scholarly disciplines. The volume as a whole, as well as each of the articles, has extensive bibliographies for further critical reading. Imagologyis intended both for students and for senior scholars, facilitating not only a first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and poetics of national stereotypes, but also a deepening of our understanding and analytical perspective by interdisciplinary and comparative contextualization and extensive cross-referencing.