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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Freese, Peter |
| Title, Monographic | Germany and German thought in American literature and cultural criticism: Proceedings of the German-American conference in Paderborn, May 16-19, 1990 |
| Place of Publication | Essen |
| Publisher | Die Blaue Eule |
| Date of Publication | 1990 |
| Extent of Work | 522 |
| Series Title | Arbeiten zur Amerikanistik |
| Series Vol. ID | 6 |
| ISBN | 3-89206-382-6 |
| Abstract | Twenty-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 Number | MKI/MEM PS 159 .G3 G47 1990 |
| MKI Terms | Literature, American/ German influence/ Germany in literature/ Relations, Germany-US |