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Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy: Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May, and Other German Novelists of America
Ist Teil von
The German Quarterly, 2000, Vol.73 (2), p.207-209
Ort / Verlag
Cherry Hill: American Association of Teachers of German
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Clearly, he is again living up to the pluralist ideas about "the duple or multiple view of the work of art" in his Literary Sociology and Practical Criticism: An Inquiry (1977: 173), a brilliantly polemical contribution to the theory of literature (see my review in Monatshefte 73:3 [1981]: 335-38). In order to demonstrate Gerstacker's realistic narrative style, the author interprets one of the Western stories, which depicts a frightening, "multicultural" bear hunt ([136-501-the author likes the stories best of all). [...]he is determined, in his role of a sociologist of literature but apparently with tongue in cheek, to extend his project of re-visioning even to May: "There is an evident need to upgrade May evaluatively, to gain him admission to an expanded literary canon and justify the expenditure of major institutional resources of literary scholarship on him" (235). [...]a closer monitoring of German-American cultural relations by observers in the German studies field would be of practical value" (269).