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Waldemar Zacharasiewicz explores the cultural and historical background of the varied images of Germany and Germans in American literature throughout the past two centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach known as comparative imagology, which borrows from social psychology and cultural anthropo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2007.
Temas:
American literature > Germany > Influence.
Germans in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
Littérature américaine > Allemagne > Influence.
Allemands dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Germans in literature
Literature
Germany > In literature.
Germany > Symbolic representation.
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Images of Germany in America
  • Discovering Germany: the early nineteenth century
  • Differing responses: the late nineteenth century
  • Transatlantic encounters: Fin-de-siècle estrangement
  • Cultural conflict: the early twentieth century
  • Interlude: before World War II
  • The return of clichés: the World War II years
  • The burden of the past: post-war Germany
  • Conclusion: a look toward the future.

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