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Sophie Discovers Amerika: German-Speaking Women Write the New World (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Rob (Ed) McFarland
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Description for Sophie Discovers Amerika: German-Speaking Women Write the New World (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Hardcover. Cultural and literary historians investigate the unique literary bridge between German-speaking women and the "New World," examining novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and photography. Editor(s): McFarland, Rob; James, Michelle Stott. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 324 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 642.
Cultural and literary historians investigate the unique literary bridge between German-speaking women and the "New World," examining novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and photography. In a 1798 novel by Sophie von La Roche, a European woman swims across a cold North American lake seeking help from the local indigenous tribe to deliver a baby. In a 2008 San Francisco travel guide, Milena Moser, the self-proclaimed "Patron Saint of Desperate Swiss Housewives," ponders the guilty pleasures of a media-saturated world. Wildly disparate, these two texts reveal the historical arc of a much larger literary constellation: the literature of German-speaking ... Read more
Cultural and literary historians investigate the unique literary bridge between German-speaking women and the "New World," examining novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and photography. In a 1798 novel by Sophie von La Roche, a European woman swims across a cold North American lake seeking help from the local indigenous tribe to deliver a baby. In a 2008 San Francisco travel guide, Milena Moser, the self-proclaimed "Patron Saint of Desperate Swiss Housewives," ponders the guilty pleasures of a media-saturated world. Wildly disparate, these two texts reveal the historical arc of a much larger literary constellation: the literature of German-speaking ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135865
SKU
V9781571135865
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Ref
99-15
About Rob (Ed) McFarland
Rob McFarland is Professor of German Literature, Film and Culture at Brigham Young University.
Reviews for Sophie Discovers Amerika: German-Speaking Women Write the New World (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
[D]raws writers from a period of 200 years, from a wide range of genres, and includes a broad range of techniques to analyze them. . . . [Does] a remarkable job of bringing twenty-three women writers of German to the forefront and providing a context from which to further conversations about women and their importance in shaping Germany as a ... Read more