Prof. em. Dr. Heinz Ickstadt “To Purify the Dialect of the Tribe. Poetry

Prof. em. Dr. Heinz Ickstadt
John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, American Literature
Free University Berlin
“To Purify the Dialect of the Tribe. Poetry and the Sustaining Myth
of its Collective Function from Pound and H.D. to Charles Bernstein
and Susan Howe.“
Heinz Ickstadt, Professor of American Literature at the Kennedy
Institute of North American Studies, Free University Berlin,
emeritus since 2003. Publications: Dichterische Erfahrung und
Metaphernstruktur: Die Bildersprache Hart Cranes; a history of the
American novel in the twentieth century (Transformations of the
Mimetic, 1996); plus essays on late nineteenth-century American
literature and culture within a context of rapid social transformation
(especially on the work of William Dean Howells and Henry James), on
the fiction and poetry of American modernism and postmodernism
(especially on Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers as
well as on Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Frank O‘Hara and
Susan Howe), also on the history and theory of American Studies
(e.g. „American Studies in an Age of Globalization,“ American Quarterly 54: 4 [December 2002],
543-562). Some of these were collected in Faces of Fiction: Essays on American Literature and
Culture from the Jacksonian Age to Postmodernity (2001). He also edited and co-edited several
books on American literature and culture, among them a bi-lingual anthology of American poetry
and the first English/German edition of Pound‘s The Cantos (2012).
He was president of the German Association of American Studies from 1990 until 1993, and
president of the European Association of American Studies from 1996-2000.
Invitation to Lecture Series:
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To Purify the Dialect of the Tribe. Poetry and the Sustaining Myth
of its Collective Function from Pound and H.D. to Charles Bernstein
and Susan Howe
Prof. em. Dr. Heinz ICKSTADT
Professor for American Literature
John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin
Tue., 4 November 2014
5 - 6.30 pm
SR 34.D2, Attemsgasse 25/DG, 8010 Graz
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