Heinz Ickstadt

Heinz Ickstadt (born August 18, 1936 in Mainz ) is a retired German literary scholar .

Life

Ickstadt studied English (or American) and German at the universities of Mainz, Freiburg and Berlin , interrupted by a year abroad with a Fulbright scholarship from 1960 to 1961 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend (Indiana) .

He received his doctorate in 1968 at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on the visual language Hart Cranes . From 1969 he was a research assistant at the America Institute of the University of Munich until he accepted a professorship for American literature at the Free University of Berlin in 1978.

His main focus is on American romanticism, fin-de-siècle literature ; the concept of democracy and nation in American literature; Big City Literature and the Canadian Novel in the 20th Century.

Publications (selection)

• Gaehtgens / Ickstadt, eds., American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century American Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
• "Trans-national Democracy and Anglo-Saxondom: Fears and Visions of a Dominant Minority in the 1920s", in: W. Binder, ed., Ethnic Cultures in the 1920s in North America. Frankfurt: Lang, 1993, pp. 1-15.
• "Violence in the American novel", in: Joas / Knöbl, eds., Violence in the USA. Frankfurt: Fischer, 1994, pp. 175-190.
• "American literature in the fifties and sixties", Funkkolleg Literary Modernism, study unit 22. Tübingen, 1994.
• "Loose Ends and Patterns of Coincidence in Don DeLillo's Libra", in: Engler / Müller, eds., Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature. Munich, 1994, pp. 299-312.
• "American Modernism", in: Hubert Zapf , ed., History of American Literature Metzler, 1996.
• The American novel in the 20th century: Transformation of the mimetic , Darmstadt: Wiss. Book Society, 1998.
• Eva Hesse , Heinz Ickstadt, eds., English and American poetry , Vol. IV Munich: Beck, 2000.
• Heinz Ickstadt; Susanne Rohr; Sabine Sielke (Ed.): Faces of Fiction: Essays on American Literature and Culture from the Jacksonian Period to Postmodernity . 2001.
• Eva Hesse, Heinz Ickstadt, Manfred Pfister (Eds.): Ezra Pound , The Cantos. Bilingual first edition .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Ickstadt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/der-amerikanist-heinz-ickstadt-liebe-zur-literatur-ist-sein-motor,10810590,9226854.html
2. ↑ Review by Franz Koglmann