Gerd Dose

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Gerd Dose (born October 9, 1942 in Halstenbek ; † July 16, 2010 in Großensee (Holstein) ) was a German Anglicist.

Life

Gerd Dose studied English, Romance studies, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg. He was then a research assistant to Professor Ludwig Borinski , a student of LL Schücking , and from 1985 to 2007 Professor of English at the University of Hamburg .

His main areas of work were the exploration of the Middle Ages, the development of British humor and humorous English literature , the reception of war and the military in English literature, and Australian studies. He was significantly involved in the re-establishment of general lectures at the University of Hamburg .

Fonts

  • Nobility and Community: Studies on the Assessment of Nobility in Late Medieval and Humanistic English Literature (Bern / Frankfurt a. M. / Las Vegas, 1977), 234 pp. ISBN 978-3261023285
  • "Agatha Christie and not PG Wodehouse", in English and English Lessons, 17: Learning English Humor, II (Trier, 1982), 9–49.
  • "Imitation as Illusion", in: HH Freitag / P. Hühn (ed.), Literary Views of Reality, Anglo-American Forum 12 (Bern / Frankfurt a. M. / Cirencester, 1980), pp. 1–39.
  • "'England Your England': George Orwell on Socialism, Gentleness, and the English Mission", in: Anglistik und Englischunterricht, 46/47: Englishness (Heidelberg, 1992), pp. 241-261.
  • "Alternate Worlds: Kingsley Amis 'The Alteration and Keith Roberts' Pavane", in: R. Ahrens / Fr.-W. Neumann (ed.), Fiction and History in Anglo-American Literature, Festschrift for Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock for his 60th birthday (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1998), pp. 315–338.
  • "Oh! What a Lovely War! War and Humor in British Literature, Media and Society", in: Th. F. Schneider (ed.), War experience and the creation of legends: The image of "modern" war in literature, theater, photography and Film - The Experience of War and the Creation of Myths: The Image of "Modern" War in Literature, Theater, Photography, and Film, I [Before the First World War] (Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch, 1999) , Pp. 25-33.
  • Writing in Australia: Perceptions of Australian Literature in Its Historical and Cultural Context, with Bettina Keil, 240 pages, 2000, ISBN 978-3825827960
  • So close and yet so far: English mentality and 'Englishness' in culture, society and everyday life, ed., With Johann N. Schmidt and Egon Tiedje, 212 pages, 2005, ISBN 978-3895869815
  • Australia - Making Space Meaningful, ed. With Britta Kuhlenbeck, Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen, 2006, 203 pages. ISBN 978-3860577561
Editing
  • Series Anglophone Literatures: Hamburg contributions to the research of newer English-language literatures
  • Investigations into the humorous reception of war and the military in English literature, investigations into behavioral constancy and variation in Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, establishment of a research and teaching area for modern English-language literatures.
  • The English-Speaking World in Hamburg / Hamburg in the English-Speaking World [in co-operation with the ESU], (1985)
  • Australia Literary / Writing in Australia: The First Festival of Australian Literature in Germany (1995)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Studies down under: Australia is still an insider tip. In: Spiegel Online . June 5, 2001, Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Can, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anglist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Halstenbek
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2010
Place of death Großensee (Holstein)