The Fortunes of German Writers in America
Subtitle: Studies in Literary Reception
Contributors: Gunther J. Holst (Editor)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: December 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780872497863
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; Sociology, Social Studies; Literary Criticism; Literature And Society; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; United States; European - German; Appreciation; German Literature; History and criticism
First sentence: AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE nineteenth century is characterized by a strong eccentricity, the absence of a natural center, a phenomenon common in cultures in the process of their definition.