Amerika!

New Images in German Literature. Edited by Heinz D. Osterle.

This volume of essays presents a significant body of late 20th century German literary fantasies and ideological speculations concerned with the United States. Included are reflections on the historical background, surveys of such major themes as the pursuit of happiness and the demythologization of its various aspects, and separate discussions of fiction, drama, and poetry in the form of general appraisals or special studies of representative writers and works. The volume ends with a political section dealing with the changing attitudes of Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Günter Grass. VIII,345 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (German Life and Civilization; Vol. 2/Peter Lang Verlag 1989) Mängelexemplar/near mint