Geb. 1943, Sunderland, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - Sprachwissenschaft - German Studies (Fachgebiet) - German language, literature and society (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Sunderland - School of Social and International Studies, University of Sunderland - Forster Building, Chester Road, Sunderland SR1 3SD

Besondere Forschungsgebiete Contemporary German literature and society

Monographien Writers and Politics in West Germany (1986). Understanding Contemporary Germany (1997).

Aufsätze und Beiträge Criticism of East German society in some incidents in Erik Neutsch's novel Spur der Steine (GLL, 1972). Crisis and New Ways: the recent development of Martin Walser (NGS, 1974). An all-German Dilemma. Some notes on the presentation of the theme of the individual and society in Martin Walser's Halbzeit and Christa Wolf's Nachdenken über Christa T. (GLL, 1974). West German drama since the War, in The German Theatre (ed. R. Hayman) (1975). The Novels of Ödön von Horváth (NGS, 1975). The dramatic art of Ödön von Horváth (ibid., 1977). Martin Walser: Social critic or 'Heimatkünstler' (ibid., 1982). Ödön von Horváth, in Weimar Germany, Writers and Politics (ed. A. Bance) (1982). Contributor to The German Democratic Republic (ed. I. Wallace) (1987). Alternative Visions of a new Germany: Intellectuals in the First Post-war Decade (GLL, 1992). Writers, Intellectuals and German Unity (German Politics, 1993). Disunity and Unity - The inner-German Literaturstreit of the early 1990s, in Germany in the 1990s (ed. H.J Hahn) (1995). Postmodern polemics: Recent intellectual debates in Germany, in The New Germany. Literature and Society after Unification (ed. O. Durrani et al.) (1995).