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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Contemporary literature

Aufsätze und Beiträge: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Johannes Kreisler - 'verrückter Musikus'? (MLQ, 1969). Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel and Örtlich betäubt: the pain of polarities (FMLS, 1973). Disclaimers and paradoxes in Dürrenmatt (GLL, 1974). Utopia in Mecklenburg: Peter Hacks's play Moritz Tassow (MLR, 1980). Christa Wolf's Kassandra: the censoring of the GDR edition (MLR, 1986). Authority, the state and the individual: Stefan Heym's novel Collin (FMLS, 1987). Reiner Kunze: some comments and a conversation (GLL, 1988). Christa Wolf and the concept of morality, in GDR: Individual and Society (ed. I.K.J. Williams) (1988). The kite, the plains, and some further moralizing (GDRMon, 1988). Sarah Kirsch: some comments and a conversation (GLL, 1991). East-West memories of a lost summer: Christa Wolf and Sarah Kirsch, in German Literature at a Time of Change 1989-1990 (ed. A. Williams et al.) (1991). Born in the East: Censorship and the younger generation in the GDR (Index on Censorship, 1992). Christa Wolf's Sommerstück: an intensified June afternoon (MLR, 1992). The erosion of hope, or: What remains of Christa Wolf? (GMon, 1992). Christoph Hein, in Contemporary World Writers (1993). Sarah Kirsch (ibid.). Reiner Kunze (ibid.). E.T.A. Hoffmann, in Reference Guide to Short Fiction (ed. N. Watson) (1994). The treachery of St Joan: Christa Wolf and the Stasi, in Christa Wolf in Perspective (ed. I. Wallace) (1994). Ein Gespräch, in Wo Freiheit ist... (ed. R. Kunze) (1994). White poems and black days: The case of Reiner Kunze, in The New Germany: Literature and Society after Unification (ed. O. Durrani et al.) (1995). Heinrich Böll, Katharina Blum, in Reference Guide to World Literature (1995). Paul Celan, 'Todesfuge' (ibid.). Peter Weiss, Die Ermittlung (ibid.).

Übersetzungen: Three Contemporary German Poets: Wolf Biermann, Sarah Kirsch, Reiner Kunze (1985).

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: BA, AKC (London), DipEd (Oxon), MA (Brown Univ., USA)