My interests include German and Comparative Literature from 1750 to the present; German poetry, especially Rilke; Hofmannsthal and fin-de-siècle Vienna ; German-Jewish issues.
 
 

BOOKS

(Ed.) A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal . Columbia , SC : Camden House, 2002. Authored 2 chapters, translated 2 others.

Hofmannsthal and Symbolism: Art and Life in the Work of a Modern Poet. American University Studies III/18. Berne/Frankfurt/ New York : Peter Lang Verlag, 1985.

ARTICLES

“German Jews and Ostjuden in the American South: Alfred Uhry's Play The Last Night of Ballyhoo. ” German-Jewish Identities in America , ed. Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons. Madison : Max Kade Institute/University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

“Rilke's ‘Die Insel der Sirenen' and the Music of Silence.” Lyric Symbols and Narrative Transformations: Essays in Honor of Ralph Freedman. Ed. Kathleen L. Komar and Ross Shideler. Columbia , SC : Camden House, 1998.

“Traditionalist Modernism or Modernist Traditionalism: The Case of Hugo von Hofmannsthal.” Philological Papers 39 (1993).

“Sidelights” Essay on Jaroslav Hasek in Contemporary Authors 129 (Detroit/New York/London: Gale Publishing, 1990).

“Rilkes Wendung zur Musik: Das Gedicht ‘Bestürz mich, Musik.'“ Im Dialog mit der Moderne. Festschrift für Jacob Steiner. Frankfurt: Athenäum Verlag, 1986.

“‘Du Sprache wo Sprachen enden': Rilke's Poem “An die Musik.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 22, No. 3 (September 1986).

“Lessing, Goldsmith, and the Tradition of Eighteenth-Century Sentimental Comedy.” Lessing and the Enlightenment. Ed. Alexej Ugrinsky. Contributions to the Study of World Literature, No. 15. New York/Westport, CN/London: Greenwood Press, 1986.

“A New Kind of Poetry: Hofmannsthal and the French Symbolists.” Comparative Literature 37, No.1 (Winter 1985).

“ Die Frau ohne Schatten : Hofmannsthal's Response to the Symbolist Dilemma.” The German Quarterly 57, No. 3 (Summer 1984).

“Hasek's Good Soldier Svejk as a Picaresque Novel.” Germano-Slavica 4, No. 5 (Spring 1984).

“‘Acheronta movebo': A New Light on the Figure of the Physician in Hofmannsthal's Turm.” Focus on Vienna 1900: Change and Continuity in Literature, Art and Intellectual History. Ed. Erika Nielsen. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1982.

TRANSLATION

Franz Rosenzweig, Ninety-Two Poems and Hymns of Yehuda Halevy will appear in 1999 with the State University of New York Press in Albany . I collaborated with Eva Jospe on the translations of Rosenzweig's extensive commentaries on the poems, and was the sole translator of Rosenzweig's “Nachwort.”
 

REVIEWS

Günther, Timo. Hofmannsthal. Ein Brief (Muncih: Fink, 2003) will appear in a forthcoming number of Austrian Studies.

Schwarz, Egon. “Ich bin kein Freund allgemeiner Urteile über ganze Völker.” Essays über österreichische, deutsche und jüdische Literatur , ed. Dietmar Goltschnigg and Hartmut Steinecke (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2000) in German Quarterly 76, No. 1 (2003).

David A. Brenner, Marketing Identities. The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und West (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998) will appear in Colloquia Germanica .

Lorna Martens, Shadow Lines. Austrian Literature from Freud to Kafka (Lincoln, NE & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996) will appear in Colloquia Germanica .

Herbert Lindenberger, The Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998) will appear in The Comparatist .

Thomas J. Harrison, 1900: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996) appeared in Austrian History Yearbook XXIX (1999).

Peter R. Erspamer, The Elusiveness of Tolerance: The “Jewish Question” from Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997) in Eighteenth-Century Studies 32, No. 1 (1998).

Sander Gilman, Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient (New York/London: Routledge, 1995) in Habsburg , the H-Net listserv devoted to Central European History, on October 2, 1996; disseminated also through H-Antis , the listserv devoted to the History of Antisemitism.

David Kleinbard, The Beginning of Terror: A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke (New York/London: New York University Press, 1993) in Monatshefte 88, No. 4 (Winter 1996).

Austrian Fiction Writers, 1875-1913 . Ed. James Hardin and Donald G. Daviau. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 81. (Detroit: Gale, 1989) in The German Quarterly 65, No. 1 (Winter 1992).

Patricia Pollock Brodsky, Rainer Maria Rilke (Boston: Twayne, 1988) in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 27, No. 1 (February 1991).