Amerika! New Images in German Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820410586)

This volume of essays is the first to present in English a significant body of recent German literary fantasies and ideological speculations concerned with the United States. Included are reflections on the historical background, surveys of such major themes as the pursuit of happiness and the demythologization of its various aspects, and separate discussions of fiction, drama, and poetry in the form of general appraisals or special studies of representative writers and works. The volume ends with a political section dealing with the changing attitudes of Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Günter Grass.

Author: Jost Hermand
ISBN-10: 0820410586
ISBN-13: 9780820410586
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1989
Pages: 355
Format: Hardcover