Udo J. Hebel and Karl Ortseifen (Eds.):
Transatlantic Encounters
Studies in European-American Relations
Presented to Winfried Herget
Transatlantic Encounters: Studies in European-American Relations collects essays by scholars from Germany, the United States, England, France, Austria, and Croatia to honor Winfried Herget on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Over the years, Winfried Herget has devoted the greater part of his research and teaching to the exploration of the multifaceted spectrum of European-American encounters. The list of publications appended to the present volume documents this scholarly scope. His continuing involvement in German-American academic programs underscores his dedication to the promotion of transatlantic relations in the fields of both student and staff exchanges.
The contributors to this festschrift well reflect Winfried Hergets scholarly interests. The time span covered stretches from the beginnings of colonial American history to the present. The essays deal with a wide range of topics: Puritanism in seventeenth-century Old and New England, Britisch-American cultural relations in the eighteenth century, European-American literary interrelations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, travel accounts and the representation of intercultural encounters, European-American intertextuality and intermediality, linguistic aspects of trans-atlantic contacts. A work-in-progress report on the ongoing research project Americans in Rhineland-Palatinate initiated by Winfried Herget and sponsored by the Transatlantic Encounters: Studies in European-American Relations collects essays by scholars fom Germany, the United States, England, France, Austria, and Croatia to honor Winfried Herget on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Over the years, Winfried Herget has devoted the greater part of his research and teaching to the exploration of the multifaceted spectrum of European-American encounters. The list of publications appended to the present volume documents this scholarly scope. His continuing involvement in German-American academic programs underscores his dedication to the promotion of transatlantic relations in the fields of both student and staff exchanges.
Udo J. Hebel, Karl Ortseifen (Eds.)
Fritz W. Schulze: Literary auctoritas and tropos in the Naming of American Virginia
Norman Pettit: The Heart Renewed: Assurance of Salvation in Puritan Spiritual Life
Peter Erlebach: Renaissance Literary Theory and the Puritan Attitude Towards Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Reiner Smolinski / Kathleen B. Freels: "Chymical Wedding": Rosicrucian Alchemy and Eucharistic Conversion Process in Edward Taylor's Preparatory Meditations and in Early Seventeenth-Century German Tracts
Roger Thompson: Reflections on the Early-Modern Extended Family in Old England and New England
R. C. Simmons: God and Victory: The Quebec Thanksgiving Sermons of 1759
Horst W. Drescher: Eine schottische Geschichte von Amerika
Lothar Hönnighausen: The Amerikan Interest in German Romanticism:
Washington Irving, John Pendleton Kennedy, and Gottfried August Bürger’s "Lenore" - A Cultural Studies ApproachArmin Paul Frank: Writer Response Criticism und amerikanische Literaturgeschichte: Zur Frage des "amerikanischen Scott"
Klaus Lubbers: "So Motley a Dramatis Personae": Transatlantic Encounters in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers
Ursula Brumm: Charles Follen: Kultureller Mittler bei den amerikanischen Transzendentalisten
Hans-Joachim Lang: Paul Fane and Ruth Hall; or, Two Geniuses in One Family
Waldemar Zacharasiewicz: Waltzing in the German Paris: American Encounters with Musical Vienna
Heiner Bus: The Power of Stereotypes: Spain in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno (1855) and Nash Candelaria’s Memories of the Alhambra (1977)
K. P. S. Jochum: Henry James's Strong American Light on Darmstadt
Winfried Fluck: Kate Chopin's At Fault: The Usefulness of Louisiana French for the Imagination
Renate von Bardeleben: Theodore Dreiser's European Encounters: The Case of Oxford
Sonja Basic: History as Vampire: James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Miroslav Krleza
Frieder Busch: Too long, or not too long: Ernest Hemingway's Alpenidyll
François Pitavy: Writing In Eugene O'Neill’s Strange Interlude, Writing Out Strange Interlude
Klaus Martens: The Moose of It: Ein Gedicht von Elizabeth Bishop in seinen angloamerikanischen Traditionen
Reingard M. Nischik: Illusion, Meta-Illusion, Counter-Illusion, Illusionism: The Funct-ion of Film in American Film Stories
Wolfgang G. Müller: Derivative Literature: Notes on the Terminology of Intertextual Relationships and a British-American Case Study
Peter Wagner: Reading Hawkes, Reading Stubbs: Intermedial Representation in John Hawkes's Whistlejacket
Alfred Hornung: The Birth of a Multicultural Nation: Horace M. Kallen’s Cultural Pluralism
Volker Bischoff: Life in the U.S.A.: Users’ Manuals
Ute Ritzenhofen: Work in Progress: Americans in Rhineland-Palatinate. An Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Research Project
Klaus Faiß: Word-Watching: The English-German-French Connection
ISBN 3-88476-144-7 (kt.)/ 3-88476-160-9 (geb.), 406 S., kt. € 31,00, geb. € 41,00 (1995)
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