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Examines the image of the US in German poetry and the reception and influence of American poetry in Germany since 1945.
This book focuses on the image of the US in German poetry and the reception of American poetry in Germany since 1945. Gregory Divers examines poems by major figures in 20th-century German literature - Benn, Brecht, Bachmann, Jandl, and Grass, among others - and by other poets who shaped America's postwar image in Germany. Divers traces America's postwar status in Germany from the prisoner-of-war poems of Günter Eich to the pop poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Peter Handke. Continuing, he finds that although the 1960s protest poems of Erich Fried and others reflect the tarnishing of America's image due to Vietnam, 1970s travel poems by Brinkmann, Kunert, and Kunze confirm the resiliency of that image. Finally, Divers looks at poems by Hartung, Delius, and Kling to illustrate the new heights reached by America's image within German literary circles during the 1980s, and the status of America in Germany after reunification. In charting these developments in postwar German poetry, Divers also shows how American influences are crucial to its understanding, not only surveying postwar German reception of Whitman, Eliot, Pound, and William Carlos Williams, but also examining the influence of such figures as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, and Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath.
Gregory Divers is Assistant Professor of German at Saint Louis University.
This book focuses on the image of the US in German poetry and the reception of American poetry in Germany since 1945. Gregory Divers examines poems by major figures in 20th-century German literature - Benn, Brecht, Bachmann, Jandl, and Grass, among others - and by other poets who shaped America's postwar image in Germany. Divers traces America's postwar status in Germany from the prisoner-of-war poems of Günter Eich to the pop poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Peter Handke. Continuing, he finds that although the 1960s protest poems of Erich Fried and others reflect the tarnishing of America's image due to Vietnam, 1970s travel poems by Brinkmann, Kunert, and Kunze confirm the resiliency of that image. Finally, Divers looks at poems by Hartung, Delius, and Kling to illustrate the new heights reached by America's image within German literary circles during the 1980s, and the status of America in Germany after reunification. In charting these developments in postwar German poetry, Divers also shows how American influences are crucial to its understanding, not only surveying postwar German reception of Whitman, Eliot, Pound, and William Carlos Williams, but also examining the influence of such figures as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, and Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath.
Gregory Divers is Assistant Professor of German at Saint Louis University.
Price: $130.00
Pages: 308
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Publication Date:
15 March 2002
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781571132420
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry and poets
Divers's book is a good resource for those studying both modern and postmodern German poetry. His research is especially valuable because it offers a look into a number of recent decades and their influences on German poets.
Introduction
Pfannkuchen, Coca-Cola, Hollywood, Harlem: How Do You Like America?
Prejudice, Problems, Fragments: Early Postwar Reception of American Poetry
The 1960s: Jazz Beats Rhythms of Change
O Taste and See the Projective Verse: Höllerer's "Thesen zum langen Gedicht"
und Vietnam und Erich Fried: American and the German Political Poem of the 1960s
Kilroy Was Here: How Vietnam Changed the Image of America
Fiedler Crosses the Border, Brinkmann Closes the Gap: The Origins of German Pop Poetry
Travel Destination America: Image and Influence through the mid-1970s
Casting Light on Mr. Hopper's America: From the Late 1970s through the 1980s
After the Wall: Luftbrücke und heavy metal sounzz
Conclusion: Imago America
Works Cited
Index
Pfannkuchen, Coca-Cola, Hollywood, Harlem: How Do You Like America?
Prejudice, Problems, Fragments: Early Postwar Reception of American Poetry
The 1960s: Jazz Beats Rhythms of Change
O Taste and See the Projective Verse: Höllerer's "Thesen zum langen Gedicht"
und Vietnam und Erich Fried: American and the German Political Poem of the 1960s
Kilroy Was Here: How Vietnam Changed the Image of America
Fiedler Crosses the Border, Brinkmann Closes the Gap: The Origins of German Pop Poetry
Travel Destination America: Image and Influence through the mid-1970s
Casting Light on Mr. Hopper's America: From the Late 1970s through the 1980s
After the Wall: Luftbrücke und heavy metal sounzz
Conclusion: Imago America
Works Cited
Index