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Forschungsgebiete:

• Landeskunde/'German Studies'
• Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert, Exilliteratur, Literatur seit 1945
• Literatur und andere Künste
• Poetik und Ästhetik
• Stoffgeschichte, Motivgeschichte

Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Life and work of W. G. (Max) Sebald

Monographien in Auswahl: Broadcasting and democracy in West Germany (1976).

Aufsätze und Beiträge in Auswahl:

• Thomas Mann's nationalist phase: A study of Friedrich und die große Koalition (GLL 1969)
• An investigation of the education system of the DDR (GLL 1971)
• Die Sozialpolitik (in Edwards et al 1982)
• West German Social Policy since 1969 (Quinquereme 1983)
• West German broadcasting in the eighties plus ça change... (ASGP Journal 1984)
• Pluralism in the West German media: The press, broadcasting and cable (WEP 1985)
• West Germany: The search for the way forward (in Kuhn 1985)
• The impacts of the new technologies on the West German media (CGS 1988)
• Botho Strauß and the land of his fathers: From Rumor to Der junge Mann (in Williams et al 1990)
• Botho Strauß: From identity crisis to German ennui. Whither the poet? (in Williams et al 1991)
• On individuals, identity and innovation
• Botho Strauß: The Janus-head abover the parapet - final chorises and goat-songs without beginnings (in Williams et al 1994)
• German-language literature after the diversion
• The elusive first-person plural: Real absences in Reiner Kunze, Bernd-Dieter Hüge, and W.G. Sebald (in Williams et al 1998)
• Botho Strauß's defence of the book against 'Medienwirtschaft' and 'downloadbare Vergangenheit' (in Williams et al 2000a)
• W.G. Sebald: A holistic approach to borders, texts and perspectives (in Williams et al 2000b)
• 'Das korsakowsche Syndrom': Remembrance and responsibility in W.G. Sebald (in Schmitz 2001)
• W.G.Sebald: Weit ausholende Annäherungen an ein problematisches Vaterland (in Wehdeking et al 2003)
• W.G.Sebald: Probing the outer edges of nature (in Preece et al 2004)
• 'immer weiter ostwärts und immer weiter zurück in die Zeit': Exploring the extended kith and kin of W.G.Sebald's Austerlitz (in Foster et al 2004)

Herausgebertätigkeit in Auswahl:

• [all with Parkes et al] Literature on the Threshold: The German Novel in the 1980s (1990)
• German Literature at a Time of Change, 1989-1990: German Unity and German Identity in Literary Perspective (1991)
• The Individual, Identity and Innovation: Signals from Contemporary Literature and the New Germany (1994)
• Contemporary German Writers, their Aesthetics and their Language (1996)
• 'Whose Story?' - Continuities in Contemporary German-Language Literature (1998)
• Literature, Markets and Media in Germany and Austria Today (2000a)
• German-Language Literature Today: International and Popular? (2000b)

Letzte Aktualisierung: Fri Jul 20 13:29:18 2007

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: BA, MA (Keele)