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Edited by David P. Benseler, Craig W.
Nickisch, and Cora Lee Nollendorfs
Teaching a foreign language and culture is always a challenge, but it has been especially problematic to teach German in the twentieth century. Through explorations of such topics as the world wars, the Holocaust, women in the language-teaching profession, Jewish contributions, and technology's impact on scholarship, this volume inspects the fascination and frustrating relationships of the two cultures as they interact through the teaching of German in American educational systems--from small liberal arts colleges to large and famous universities.
This volume resulted from a conference, "Shaping Forces in American Germanics," held in Madison, Wisconsin, in September 1996.
Contributors include: Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Arthur Tilo Alt, Frank Trommler, Theodore Ziolkowski, Clifford Albrecht Bernd, Jost Hermand, David Brenner, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Patricia Herminghouse, Margaretmary Daley, Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, Ellen Manning Nagy, Susan Lee Pentlin, John A. McCarthy, Helmut Ziefle, Gerhard H. Weiss, Walter F.W. Lohnes, Jeannine Blackwell, Mark W. Rectanus, and Janet Swaffar.
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