Fictions of Culture

Essays in Honor of Walter H. Sokel. Edited by Steven Taubeneck.

This volume has two related aims. The first is to honor Walter H. Sokel, one of the leading scholars and teachers in the study of German languages and literatures and a well-known figure in American academics in general. The second aim is to outline the emerging shape of cultural studies, and to suggest that Walter Sokel's work, especially in the field of intellectual history, has played a decisive role in that transition. This volume illustrates the process of transformation occurring within literary study. The book thus takes a position in the vertiginous debate concerning the purpose of education today. VII,437 Seiten, gebunden (Peter Lang Verlag 1991) Mängelexemplar/near mint