German Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Political Poetry in Periodicals and the Shaping of German National Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century
(Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2000)This study shows that between 1840 and 1871 German periodicals regularly featured poems as part of the public debate over politics. These poems constituted direct responses to the Rhine crisis of 1840, the revolution and ... -
Taking Stock: The Disappearance of German-American Literature?
(Peter Lang, 2011)This essay provides a survey of recent initiatives by Germanists, Americanists, and cultural historians, for example, that aim to rediscover and re-evaluate German-language literary texts published in the United States. ... -
The Americanization of Ernst Moritz Arndt's Political Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
(Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2007)Ernst Moritz Arndt's patriotic poem, "Des Deutschen Vaterland" (1813), written in response to the Wars of Liberation, is characterized by its anti-French rhetoric and call for a unified German nation. Widely published and ... -
Reinhold Solgers Roman Anton in Amerika: Transatlantische Interpretationen des Amerikaerlebens
(Praesens Verlag, 2011)Anton in Amerika: Novelle aus dem deutsch-amerikanischen Leben (Anton in America: A Novel from German-American Life, 1862), written by the German intellectual and revolutionary Reinhold Solger (1816-1866), depicts the often ... -
From Domestic Farce to Abolitionist Satire: Reinhold Solger's Reframing of the Union (1860)
(2005)The Hon. Anodyne Humdrum; or, The Union Must and Shall be Preserved (1860), written by forty-eighter Reinhold Solger (1817-1866) seven years after he emigrated to the United States, reveals how a German-American writer ... -
Analyzing part-of-speech variability in a longitudinal learner corpus and a pedagogic corpus
(Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2013)This study investigates the development of part-of-speech variety in the writing of a cohort of beginning college-level learners of German over three semesters of study in comparison with the pedagogical input they received ... -
Georg Faustus – Leben und Legende
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The effectiveness of written corrective feedback in teaching beginning German
(Wiley, 2010-12)This study explores the effectiveness of instructor-written corrective feedback for the improvement of writing accuracy by beginning college-level learners of German. The researcher investigated changes in error rates in ... -
Abraham Lincoln and the German Immigrants: Turners and Forty-Eighters
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Humboldt digital library and interconnectedness
(Springer, 2012)The Humboldt digital library (HDL) represents an innovative system to access the works and legacy of Alexander von Humboldt in a digital form on the Internet (www.avhumboldt.net). It contributes to the key question about ... -
Exploring the Americas in a Humboldt Digital Library: Problems and Solutions
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Writing instruction and policies for written corrective feedback in the basic language sequence
(L2 Journal, 2011)This study presents results of a May 2009 online survey that asked foreign language program directors at U.S. universities about corrective feedback options their teachers use in response to student writing in beginning ... -
The pedagogical mediation of a developmental learner corpus for classroom-based language instruction
(Language Learning and Technology, 2008-10)Although corpora have been used in language teaching for some time, few empirical studies explore their impact on learning outcomes. We provide a microgenetic account of learners’ responses to corpus-driven instructional ... -
A learner corpus-driven intervention for the development of L2 pragmatic competence
(National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai’i, 2006) -
James H. Lane and the Origins of the Kansas Jayhawk
(Kansas Historical Society, 2011) -
Lyonel Feininger’s Watercolor Eutin I: Reflections on the Origins, Composition, and Vision
(Georg Olms Verlag, 2009) -
Who Was the Historical Faustus? Interpreting an Overlooked Source
(Rodopi, 1989) -
From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles Darwin: Evolution in Observation and Interpretation
(TRANS: Internet Zeitschrift für Kulturwissensdhaften, 2010-02) -
From Alexander von Humboldt to Frederic Edwin Church: Voyages of Scientific Exploration and Creativity
(Institut für Romanistik der Universität Potsdam, 2005)