Southern scholars in Goethe's Germany. Vol. 51
Title | Southern scholars in Goethe's Germany. Vol. 51 PDF eBook |
Author | J. T. Krumpelmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Americans |
ISBN |
Southern Scholars in Goethe's Germany
Title | Southern Scholars in Goethe's Germany PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Krumpelmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Americans |
ISBN | 9781469657684 |
Southern Scholars in Goethe's Germany
Title | Southern Scholars in Goethe's Germany PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Krumpelmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Americans |
ISBN |
Images of Germany in American Literature
Title | Images of Germany in American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Waldemar Zacharasiewicz |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2007-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1587297787 |
Although German Americans number almost 43 million and are the largest ethnic group in the United States, scholars of American literature have paid little attention to this influential and ethnically diverse cultural group. In a work of unparalleled depth and range, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz explores the cultural and historical background of the varied images of Germany and Germans throughout the past two centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach known as comparative imagology, which borrows from social psychology and cultural anthropology, Zacharasiewicz samples a broad spectrum of original sources, including literary works, letters, diaries, autobiographical accounts, travelogues, newspaper reports, films, and even cartoons and political caricatures. Starting with the notion of Germany as the ideal site for academic study and travel in the nineteenth century and concluding with the twentieth-century image of Germany as an aggressive country, this innovative work examines the ever-changing image of Germans and Germany in the writings of Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Clemens, Henry James, William James, George Santayana, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Katherine Anne Porter, Kay Boyle, Thomas Wolfe, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, William Styron, Walker Percy, and John Hawkes, among others.
Soldier and Scholar
Title | Soldier and Scholar PDF eBook |
Author | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780813917436 |
In assembling Gildersleeve's writings-- autobiographical, Richmond Examiner newspaper editorials, and Southern essays, Briggs (classics and humanities, U. of South Carolina) brings to light the reflections of a U. of Virginia classics scholar during the Civil War. His classical rhetoric lends a novel twist to his loyalist but critical views on the South's "Good Cause," in chastising the Confederate administration as well as critics of slavery and Yankee poet "sinners" against the English language. Includes a few bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Title | The Publishers' Trade List Annual PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2092 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
The Transatlantic World of Higher Education
Title | The Transatlantic World of Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Anja Werner |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857457837 |
Between the 1760s and 1914, thousands of young Americans crossed the Atlantic to enroll in German-speaking universities, but what was it like to be an American in, for instance, Halle, Heidelberg, Göttingen, or Leipzig? In this book, the author combines a statistical approach with a biographical approach in order to reconstruct the history of these educational pilgrimages and to illustrate the interconnectedness of student migration with educational reforms on both sides of the Atlantic. This detailed account of academic networking in European educational centers highlights the importance of travel for academic and cultural transformations in nineteenth-century America.