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Title: New
Worlds : discovering and constructing the unknown in Anglophone literature /
edited by Martin Kuester, Gabriele Christ, und Rudolf Beck.
Published: München : Verlag Ernst Vögel, 2000.
Description: 410 p. : port. 24 cm.
Series: Schriften
der Philosophischen Fakultäten der Universität Augsburg, Nr. 59
Notes:
"Presented to Walter Pache on the occasion of his 60th birthday."
"Gedruckt mit Unterstutzung der Gesellschaft fur Kanada-Studien und der kanadischen
Botschaft in Berlin." -- ISBN: 3896500759 ; ISSN: 09337121. --
RBR copy donated
by Dr. Gaby Divay, Feb. 2000. --
Classed with FPG (Greve/Grove) material due to several FPG
articles in this collection of essays (see below). For a print-off of Divay's
contribution about FPG's passage to America on the White Star Liner Megantic,
from Liverpool to Montreal, from July 22-30, see Mss 12, Box 2, BioPass.
Note: Includes bibliographical references, a bibliography, biographical notes
about the contributors, and a list of congratualant friends and scholars.
Contents:
Introduction. -- "The New World and Finding It [poem] / Robert Kroetsch.
-- India in S. Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh, 1995 / Rudolf Beck. -- Canada
as an alternative world / E. D. Blodgett. -- Models of Canadianness / Helmut
Bonheim. -- In quest of the other writer / Ulrich Broich. -- New "Worlds of Wonder" (on
R. Davies' Cornish Trilogy) / Gabriele Christ. --
Felix Paul Greve/Frederick
Philip Grove's passage to America: the discovery of the author's arrival in North
America and its implications / Gaby Divay. --
Strange things in Rudy Wiebe's
The Discovery of Strangers / Maria Fruhwald. -- On new worlds in the historical
novel / Hans V. Geppert.
Constructing a new diversity: contemporary Canadian plays in English / Albert-Reiner
Glaap. -- "A Woman's Way": Canadian narratives of Northern discovery / Sherrill
Grace. -- From Space to Place: constructing Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers
of the Marsh and Fruits of the Earth / Konrad Gross. -- Inventions of the Self:
Canadian palimpsests / Rosmarin Heidenreich. -- Difference and dignity: problems
of [inter-]cultural understanding in British and North American literature /
Wolfgang Klooss. -- Another world: Lindalee Traceys's journey into poor Canada
/ Barbara Korte. --
Constructing the North American Frontiers in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's
Boy / Martin Kuester. -- Where literary and cultural studies meet: the example
of film adaptation, or, E. M. Forster discovers India, David Lean recovers the
Empire / Reingard M. Nischik. -- Joseph Quesnel, 1746-1809, in Bas-Canada: an
homme de lettre in a country without literature / Hanspeter Plocher. -- Ernest
Callenbach and the invention of ecotopia (1975) / Manfred Putz. -- Alice Munro's
Tilting Fields / Magdalene Redekop. -- Imaginative counterworlds: literature
as cultural criticism in N. Hawthorne's fiction / Hubert Zapf. -- "Portuguese
Journal 1995" / Dennis Cooley. --
[List of] Contributors, p.393-398. -- Books and articles by Walter Pache, 399-406
-- Tabula Gratulatoria, 407-410.
Annotation:
The detailed Bibliography of Walter Pache's work shows the regretted
Professor's wide spectrum of interests. Included are many articles on Canadian
literature and culture, including several on FPG (= Greve/Grove).
His
doctoral dissertation
dealt with James Hogg's 1824 "Confessions ..." (Koln, 1969); seven further book
publications up to 1999 include one on Daniel Defoe, one on 18th century English
literature, three on Canadian issues, and one on "Decadenz und Moderne," that
is, literature around 1900.
Many of the ca. 90 published articles are about interdisciplinary
topics, for instance, Brecht & Britain, or Richard Wagner and Shakespeare,
Blake, Poe or Ibsen in Thomas Mann, Kipling in Canada, Lafcadio Hearn and Hofmannsthal,
etc.
Professor Pache also "produced annual issues of his 'Hauszeitschrift' entitled "Neue
Fruchte" since 1978:
NF 1 was on Grove and his hidden past;
NF 4 (1981) on Elsa
Heinzelmann's correspondence from Sumatra;
NF 5 (1982) on the travel memoirs
of Oscar Espermuller, 1869-1933;
NF 7 (1984) on H. G. Wells' The Cone/Der Kegel;
NF 8 (1985) on the enlightenment author Christoph Friedrich Heinzelmann, 1786-1847
Other
NFs address Ludwig II of Bayern, Hanns Johst, Georg Krauss and steam power, Japan,
South Africa, the Titanic ("Literaturgeschichte eines Schiffbruchs"),
and Parks. The last, NF 18 (1998) is on "Brecht und die Briten."
The late Professor Walter Pache was among the first to embrace the new dimension
found in FPG (Greve/Grove) Studies with D. O. Spettigue's discovery of the Canadian
author's German background as Felix Paul Greve (b.1879; to North America,
1909; to Manitoba, 1912; to Ottawa & Simcoe, Ont., 1929/1930; d.1948). --
See also: Spettigue, Stobie, & Divay Collections in the UM Archives & Special
Collections.
Professor Pache attended the 1973 FPG Symposium in Ottawa, and he participated
in the 1998 Anniversary Symposium "In Memoriam FPG, 1879-1998-1948" in Winnipeg
with a presentation about Gorve's A Search for America (1927). --
He published no less than 6 articles, mostly in English, about FPG (Greve/Grove)
between 1979 and 1990, and also a major account of FPG in the 1990 ed. of the
reference tool Canadian
writers, 1890-1920 (ed. by W.H. New), pp.143-156. --
Local Note:
This Festschrift, conceived to honour Professor Walter Pache's 60th
birthday on February 17, 2000, sadly had to be changed to a Memorial Volume:
Walter Pache succumbed to a fatal heart-attack on January 28, 2000. --
An inserted
loose-leaf sheet states: "Walter Pache, Chair of English Literature
at the University of Augsburg, died unexpectedly on January 28th, 2000, aged
59. The present Festschrift had been planned by students, friends and colleagues
to honour Walter Pache on occasion of his 60th birthday. It is now dedicated
to his memory.
Augsburg, February
2000, Martin Kuester, Gabriele Christ, Rudolf Beck."
Subjects: Pache,
Walter, 1940-2000.
Grove,
Frederick Philip [alias Felix Paul Greve, or FPG], 1879-1948.
Literature,
Comparative North American and European.
Canadian
literature History and criticism.
Other Author(s): Pache,
Walter, 1940-2000
Kuester,
Martin.
Christ,
Gabriele Anna, 1967-
Beck,
Rudolf.
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