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Title:

The Fortunes of German writers in America : studies in literary reception / edited by Wolfgang Elfe, James Hardin, and Gunther Holst.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

xiv, 314 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

German literature--Appreciation--United States.
German literature--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Elfe, Wolfgang.
Hardin, James N.
Holst, Günther.
University of South Carolina. Dept. of Germanic, Slavic, and Oriental Languages and Literatures.

Notes:

Expanded and rev. versions of papers presented at a conference held Apr. 5-7, 1990 at the University of South Carolina, sponsored by the Dept. of Germanic, Slavic, and Oriental Languages and Literatures. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Hoover's Mann : gleanins from the FBI's secret file on Thomas Mann / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The reception of Arthur Schnitzler in the United States / Donald G. Daviau -- From Austria to America via London : Tom Stoppard's adaptations of Nestroy and Schnitzler / Guy Stern -- Franz Werfel : waiting for his time to come / Terry Reisch -- The novels of Erich Maria Remarque in American reviews / Hans Wagener -- "Brecht, motherhood, and justice" : the reception of "The Caucasian chalk circle" in the United States / Siegfried Mews -- Making it in the big apple : Heinrich Böll in the New York press, 1954-1988 / Ralph Ley -- A different drummer : the American reception of Günter Grass / Patrick O'Neill -- The economics of literature : more thoughts on the reception of German literature in the "New York Times" / Volkmar Sander.
The reception of German literature in South Carolina, 1795-1861 / Bettina Cothran -- The Bostonian cult of classicism : the reception of Goethe and Schiller in the literary reviews of the "North American Review," "Christian Examiner," and the "Dial" (1817-1865) / Thomas L. Buckley -- In the freedom stall where the Boors live equally : Heine in America / Jeffrey L. Sammons -- The fame of Theodor Storm in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Clifford Albrecht Bernd -- Lifting the cultural blockade : the American discovery of a new German literature after World War I - Ten years of critical commentary in the "Nation" and the "New Republic" / Wulf Koepke -- Gerhart Hauptmann in the United States / Warren R. Maurer -- Kafka in America : his growing reputation during the Forties / Jürgen Born --

ISBN:

9780872497863 (alk. paper)
0872497860 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

91023815

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)