Alexander Stephan Knihy

National images have been firmly established in western literatures since classical antiquity. Since the seventeenth century, these images have made an impact on the reception of the literary works in question and have influenced the production of later generations of writers. Despite this early interest of artists in national images, it was not until the early twentieth century that such images were addressed by literary scholarship. However, imagology, a branch of Comparative and General Literature, is still marked by a widespread terminological incoherence. The present study wants to help eliminate this deficit. To this end, the basic notions 'image' and 'stereotype' are unambiguously defined and made applicable for practical criticism by using the newly coined concept of 'imagene' and a structuralist model of images. The explanatory power of the conceptual framework proposed is demonstrated by in-depth analyses of five British novels of the second half of the twentieth century which focus on the United States of America and its inhabitants.

Based on FBI files released under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts, this riveting book reveals the disturbing details and surprising extent of U.S. government surveillance against German emigr writers, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in America after World War II. 26 illustrations.

Forschung im Bereich des bilingualen Sachfachunterrichts ist dem Stadium des reinen Erfahrungsberichtes entwachsen und stellt sich immer weiter gefasste, grundlegende Fragen. Die in diesem Band gesammelten Beiträge von Forschern aus verschiedenen Ländern sind ein gutes Beispiel hierfür. Es geht bei ihren Arbeiten um den Vergleich der Lernergebnisse im monolingualen und bilingualen Unterricht, die Verbindung von Kognition und Sprache, verschiedene Modelle bilingualen Unterrichts und um Multiliteralität. Verschiedene Ansätze und bilinguale Projekte werden so nicht nur beschrieben, sondern auch von innen beleuchtet.

Articles investigating important themes and structures in the works of major German writers from the eighteenth century to the present day.This collection of essays focuses on the major figures in German literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, looking at themes and structures in works by Goethe, Schlegel, Tieck, Kempowski and others. Special emphasisis given to the turn of the nineteenth century, to the contemporary period, and to German/American relations, while topics include the popularisation of Copernicus and Newton; Goethe's Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen as elegy; and, moving to the present day, a close reading of themes and structures in Wedekind's Lulu plays, Handke's Repetition, and Wolf's Kassandra project; and an investigation of the changing image of post-war Germany in American fiction. The volume as a whole is thus a fitting tribute to Theodore Ziolkowski, longtime graduate dean of Princeton University and the author of numerous books on key aspects of German literature from Romanticism to the present day.