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FormatBook Whole
Author, MonographicFreese, Peter
Title, MonographicGermany and German thought in American literature and cultural criticism: Proceedings of the German-American conference in Paderborn, May 16-19, 1990
Place of PublicationEssen
PublisherDie Blaue Eule
Date of Publication1990
Extent of Work522
Series TitleArbeiten zur Amerikanistik
Series Vol. ID6
ISBN3-89206-382-6
AbstractTwenty-three essays provide an informative tour d'horizon of the Deutschlandbilder to be found in American literature and of the influence of German thought upon cultural criticism in contemporary America. Among the American authors discussed in detail are George Santayana and H.L. Mencken in the fields of philosophy and cultural criticism and Upton Sinclair, Kay Boyle, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Joyce Carol Oates, Cyntia Ozick, and Thomas Pynchon in the field of narrative literature; and among the German thinkers investigated with regard to their influence in America are Marx, Helgel, Freud, Nietzsche, Heigegger, and Adorno.
Notes; book, in MadCat
Call NumberMKI/MEM PS 159 .G3 G47 1990
MKI TermsLiterature, American/ German influence/ Germany in literature/ Relations, Germany-US