| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) |
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Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Paul Michael Lützeler and Peter Höyng -- From Erfahrungshunger to Realitaẗshunger : Futurity, migration, and difference / Leslie A. Adelson -- In-between : The participant as observer : the observer as participant / Hans Adler -- Transatlantic space and my own history of globalization / Russell A. Berman -- Deplazierte Personen : Why would an American become a Germanist? / Jane K. Brown -- Metamorphoses and meanderings of a wanderer between worlds / Walter Hinderer -- German studies as vocation : My path into it, out of it, and back into it / Robert C. Holub -- My long way from Germanistik to Afro German studies / Leroy Hopkins -- Mustang Red : My American road to critical theory / Andreas Huyssen -- Third place : How a French Germanist became an applied linguist in America / Claire Kramsch -- Transatlantic exchanges : German studies : European and American style / Paul Michael Lützeler -- Being at home in the other : Thoughts and tales from a typically atypical Germanist / Mark W. Roche -- After Australia : Triangulating an intellectual journey / Judith Ryan -- A tale in translation : An academic itinerary from Istanbul to Bryn Mawr / Azade Seyhan -- Beyond passing : Transculturation in "contact zones" / Lynne Tatlock -- Far from where? Germanistik between the continents / Liliane Weissberg -- Epilogue : The usefulness of useless studies / Wilhelm Krull |
| Summary |
The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue |
| Analysis |
Cultural Policies |
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Diversity |
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Exile Generation |
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German Culture |
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German Studies |
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Humanities |
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Interdisciplinarity |
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Literature |
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Pluralism |
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Scholarship |
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Transatlantic Dialogue |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German philology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
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Germanists -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German.
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German philology -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Germanists
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lützeler, Paul Michael, editor
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Höyng, Peter, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787443914 |
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1787443914 |
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