Germany and German Thought in American Literature and Cultural Criticism

Proceedings of the German-American Conference in Paderborn, May 16-19, 1990. Edited by Peter Freese.

23 essays by American Studies specialists from Germany and the United States 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, Cynthia 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, Hegel, Freud, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Adorno. With contributions by Hartmut Keil, Lothar Bredella, Peter Freese et al. 522 Seiten, broschiert (Arbeiten zur Amerikanistik; Band 6/Verlag Die Blaue Eule 1990) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear