publications - Bangor University

Anthony Bushell
Professor of Modern Languages (German)
Bangor University
Complete List of Publications, Invited Lectures and Conference Papers
Books and Edited Books:
1) The Emergence of West German Poetry from the Second World War into the Early
Post-War Period: A Study in Poetic Response, (Frankfurt am Main, 1989) iv + 295
[ISBN 3-631-41670-9].
2) Essays in Germanic Studies: Carl Lofmark Memorial Volume, edited and introduced
by Anthony Bushell, (Trivium, 1993) [published 1994] xiv + 183 [ISBN 0-905285-46-8].
3) Austria 1945 - 1955: Studies in Political and Cultural Re-Emergence, edited by
Anthony Bushell, (Cardiff, 1996) 133 [ISBN 0-7083-1339-6].
4) Experiencing Tradition: Essays of Discovery, edited by Hinrich Siefken and Anthony
Bushell, (York, 2003) 268 [1 85072 294 3].
5) Von aussen betrachtet: Österreich und die österreichische Literatur im Spiegel der
Auslandsrezeption, hrsg. Anthony Bushell und Dagmar Košálová,
(Wechselwirkungen:österreichische Literatur im internationalen Kontext, Band 13,
2007) 156 [978-3-03910-961-6]
6) Poetry in a Provisional State: The Austrian Lyric 1945 - 1955, (University of Wales
Press, 2007) 188 [978-0-708-32080-8]
Articles; Review Articles; Reviews, Translations:
1) Article: ‘A Darkening Vision: The Poetry of Marie Luise Kaschnitz’, Neophilologus,
65, no. 2 (April 1981), 272-278.
2) Article: ‘Günter Kunert and the Possibilities of Poetry’, Forum for Modern Language
Studies, 18, no. 1 (January 1982), 39-46.
3) Article: ‘Hamburg and the Revival of the Theatre in Post-War Germany’, Trivium, 17
(1982), 87-101. (Based on research undertaken in the theatre archives of the University of
Hamburg.)
4) Article: ‘Performing Foreign Language Drama’, Speech and Drama, 31, no. 1 (Spring
1982), 1-3.
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5) Translation: Prof. Andreas Fitner, ‘The Universal Reflections of Wilhelm von
Humboldt’, Universitas. A German Review of the Arts and Sciences, 24, no. 3 (1982),
169-173.
6) Translation: Prof. Wolfgang Schoop, ‘Adaptation and Ecosystems - Research in a
Land of the Incas’, Universitas, ibid., 201-206.
7) Review Article on Modern German Poetry: Gottfried Willems, Großstadt- und
Bewußtseinspoesie. Über Realismus in der modernen Lyrik, insbesondere im lyrischen
Spätwerk Gottfried Benns und in der deutschen Lyrik seit 1965, in Trivium, 19 (1984),
135-143.
8) Review: Peter Whitaker, Brecht’s Poetry: A Critical Study, Quinquereme: New Studies
in Modern Languages, 10, no. 1 (1987), 120-121.
9) Article: ‘The New Technology and Language Learning: A Dissenting View’,
Language Monthly and International Journal of Translation, 40 (1987) 24-25.
10) Review: Hans Petersen (ed.) 28 walisische Erzähler, The Powys Review, 24 (1989)
69-70.
11) Article: ‘Max von der Grün: Stellenweise Glatteis’, German Teaching, 4 (December
1991) 16-19.
12) Article: ‘Austria: Barometer of the New Europe’, Austria Today, 4 (1991) 11/59.
13) Critical Essay: ‘Karl Krolow’, in Contemporary World Writers, second edition,
edited by Tracy Chevalier, (London, 1993), pp. 298-300.
14) Critical Essay: ‘Gabriele Wohmann’, in Contemporary World Writers, ibid., pp.569
572
15) Article: ‘A Book Too Soon? Hans Lebert’s Novel Die Wolfshaut and Austrian
Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ in Essays in Germanic Studies: Carl Lofmark Memorial
Volume, edited and introduced by Anthony Bushell, (Trivium, 1993) [published 1994],
op. cit., pp. 93-103.
16) Critical Essay: ‘Heinrich von Kleist’, in Reference Guide to Shorter Fiction, edited
by Noelle Watson, (London and Detroit, 1994), pp. 298-300.
17) Critical Essay: ‘The Marquise of O’, Reference Guide to Shorter Fiction, op. cit., pp.
799-800.
18) Review: From High Priests to Desecrators. Contemporary Austrian Writers, edited
by Ricarda Schmidt and Moray McGowan, in New German Studies, vol. 18, no 1/2
(1994/5), 115-116.
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19) Abstract: ‘Österreichische Literatur und Identität zwischen zwei Welten (1945 1955): Neu- oder Totgeburt?’, in Alte Welten - neue Welten. Akten des IX. Kongresses
der Internationalen Vereinigung für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
(IVG), (Tübingen, 1996), vol. 2, p. 73.
20) Inaugural lecture: Viennese Whirls: Accounting for Modern Austria, (UWB, May
1996), pp. 17.
21) Article: ‘ Austria’s Political and Cultural Re-emergence: The First Decade’, in
Austria 1945 - 1955: Studies in Political and Cultural Re-Emergence, edited by Anthony
Bushell, op. cit., pp. 1-10.
22) Article: ‘The Problem of Structure and Themes in Sarah Kirsch’s Early Poetry’, in
Sarah Kirsch, edited by Mererid Hopwood and David Basker, (Cardiff, 1977), pp. 34-45.
23) Review: Michael Clyne, The German Language in a changing Europe, in Language
Awareness, vol.6, no 1, (1997), 48-50.
24) Article: ‘Prescribing for the New Germany: The Journal Frankfurter Hefte in its First
Year of Publication (1946), German Life and Letters, vol. LI, no 1 (January 1998), 106120.
25) Translation: Helmut Kohl, ‘German Security Policy on the Threshold to the 21st
Century’ (Deutsche Sicherheitspolitik zum 21. Jahrhundert), Aussenpolitik, vol. 49, no 1,
1998, pp. 5-11.
26) Translation: Ulrich Rosengarten, ‘The Geneva Conference on the Former
Yugoslavia’ (Die Genfer Konferenz über das frühere Jugoslawien), Aussenpolitik, vol.
49, no 1, 1998, pp. 32-39.
27) Translation: Gerhard Simon, ‘The Historical Prerequisites for Russia’s
Modernisation’ (Geschichtliche Voraussetzungen für die Modernisierung Rußlands),
Aussenpolitik, vol. 49, no 1, 1998, pp. 74-94.
28) Translation: Gregor Schöllgen, ‘The Berlin Republic as a Player on the International
Stage. Does Germany still have its own Political Interests?’ (Die Berliner Republik als
internationaler Akteur. Gibt es noch eine deutsche Interessenpolitik?), Aussenpolitik, vol.
49, no 2, 1998, pp. 26-35.
29) Articles and Entries: Christine Busta, Heimito von Doderer, Hans Egon Holthusen,
Gert Jonke, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Karl Krolow, Christine Lavant, Poetry (FRG) and
George Saiko in Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture, edited by John
Sandford, (Routledge, London and New York, 1999).
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30) Short article: ‘Heldenplatz: Thomas Bernhard’, in Encylopedia of German Literature,
ed. Matthias Konzett, 2 vols (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), I, pp. 98-99.
31) Short article: ‘Professor Bernhardi: Arthur Schnitzler’, in Encylopedia of German
Literature, ed. Matthias Konzett, 2 vols (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000),
II, pp. 883-884.
32) Article: ‘Implying or Denying the Reader? The Challenge of Julian Schutting’s
Poetry’, in Julian Schutting, edited by Harriet Murphy, (Riverside: Ariadne Press, 2000),
pp. 5-25.
33) Article: ‘Austria’s Second Coming: The literary response to a restored Austria in the
early years of the Second Republic’, in The Phoney Peace: Power and Culture in Central
Europe 1945-1949, ed Robert Pynsent (London: SSEES, 2000), pp. 288-293.
34) Review: Klaus Zeyringer, Österreichische Literatur 1945 – 1998. Überblicke –
Einschnitte – Wegmarken in Modern Language Review, vol. 97, no. 3 (2002) 773-776.
35) Article: ‘The Poet between War and Peace: Marie Luise Kaschnitz’s Essays
Menschen und Dinge 1945’, in Experiencing Tradition: Essays of Discovery, edited by
Hinrich Siefken and Anthony Bushell, (York, 2003), pp. 192-199.
36) Article: ‘Family History as National History: Peter Henisch’s Novel Die kleine Figur
meines Vaters and the Issue of Memory in Austria’s Second Republic’, in Orbis
Litterarum, 59 (2004), 100-113.
37) Article: ‘The Return of the Native, or the Neighbours are back: Anna Mitgutsch’s
novel Haus der Kindheit’, in Neighbours and Strangers: Germany, Austria and Central
Europe: Literary and Cultural Relations since 1989, ed. Ian Foster et al, (Amsterdam –
New York: Rodopi 2004/5), 85-103.
38) Article: ‘Between Regeneration and Stagnation: The dislocation of Austrian Poetry in
the Decade after 1945’, in Austrian Studies: The Austrian Lyric, 12 (2004) [2005]133154.
39) Article: ‘Writing in Austria after 1945: the Political, Institutional and Publishing
Context, in History of Austrian Literature, ed. Ritchie Robertson and Katrin Kohl,
(Camden House, 2006), pp. 163-180.
41) Article: ‘Many Happy Returns? The Status And Treatment Of the Experience of
Exile In Austria’s Literary And Cultural Journals In The Early Post-War Years’ in
Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, vol. 8, Austria
in Exile, 2006, vol. 8, pp 197-209.
42) Review: Inge Stephan, Medea. Multimedia Karriere einer mythologischen Figur in
Zeitschrift für Germanistik, XVII, 3/2007, 727-728.
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43) Review: Gerhard Wettig, Chruschtschows Berlin-Krise 1958 bis 1963. Drohpolitik
und Mauerbau in German History, 2008, 26 (1), pp. 142-143.
Special Editorial Activity:
English Language Editor of Außenpolitik: German Foreign Affairs Review ISSN 05873835 (Editorial Advisory Board includes Gerhard Wettig, Hans Apel, Walter Scheel,
Helmut Schmidt and Richard von Weizsäcker) Also available on WWW.
Editions edited
Vol 46
Vol 46
Vol 46
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no 1
no 2
no 3
no 4
1995
1995
1995
1995
pp. 1-104
pp. 105-208
pp. 209-316
pp. 317-412
Vol 47
Vol 47
Vol 47
Vol 47
no 1
no 2
no 3
no 4
1996
1996
1996
1996
pp.1-104
pp. 105-208
pp. 209-316
pp. 317-416
Vol 48
Vol 48
Vol 48
Vol 48
no 1
no 2
no 3
no 4
1997
1997
1997
1997
pp. 1-104
pp. 105-208
pp. 209-312
pp. 313-416
Vol 49
Vol 49
no 1
no 2
1998
1998
pp. 1-91
pp. 1-95
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES:
1) ‘Heinrich von Kleist and Die Marquise von O...’, Conference of Teachers of German
in Northern Ireland (on behalf of HMI), Coleraine, March 1977.
2) ‘Peter Huchel and Poetry in East German Society’, University College of Wales,
Aberystwyth, May 1982.
3) ‘Der literarische Text im Sprachunterricht’, Technische Universität Dresden, July
1982.
4) ‘West German Poetry and Early Post-War Society’, delivered at Continuity and
Change: German Society in Translation to the New German States 1945-1955: an
International Symposium, University of Liverpool, 1987, held under the auspices of the
Goethe-Institut.
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5) ‘Märkische Forschungen und Neue Herrlichkeit: Der Schriftsteller Günter de Bruyn’,
Universität Passau, August 1988.
6) ‘Oral Examining at Advanced Level’, Teachers’ Conference for the National
Language Unit for Wales and the WJEC, Caerphilly, March 1993.
7) ‘Die deutsche Lyrik der Nachkriegsjahre’, Univerzita Komenskeho, Bratislava,
Slovakia, November 1993.
8) ‘Österreichische Literatur und Identität zwischen zwei Welten (1945 - 1955): Neuoder Totgeburt?’, in Alte Welten - neue Welten. IX. Kongress der Internationalen
Vereinigung für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (IVG), Vanvouver,
Canada, 1995
9) Inaugural lecture: ‘Viennese Whirls: Accounting for Modern Austria’, University of
Wales, May 1996.
10) ‘Tinker Tailor, Opfer, Täter: Making Sense of the Occupation and the War in
Austrian Literature’, Symposium: The Cultural Impact of War, Gregynog, September
1997.
11) ‘Austria’s Second Coming: The Cultural response to a restored Austria in the early
Years of the Second Republic’, Conference: Another Trnsition: Politics and Culture in
Central Eupore 1945 – 1949, Centre for the Study of Central Europe, University of
London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, April 1998.
12) Key note speaker and sharing the platform with the Minister of Education for the
Welsh Assembly: ‘Languages and Higher Education’: CILT: European Year of
Languages 2001. The National Languages Strategy for Wales. North Wales Conference
Centre, Llandudno 29 January 2001.
13) ‘Moving Up to University Learning’: CILT: The Power of Languages: Opportunities
for Language Learners Beyond AS. Coleg Llandillo Rhos-on-Sea. 5 December. 2002.
14) Key note speaker: ‘The Return of the Native, or the Neighbours are back: Anna
Mitgutsch’s novel Haus der Kindheit’: Neighbours and Strangers: Germany, Austria
and Central Europe: Literary and Cultural Relations since 1989. International
Conference, University of Salford, European Studies Research Institute 9-11 July 2002.
15) ‘Many Happy Returns? The Status And Treatment Of the Experience of Exile In
Austria’s Literary And Cultural Journals In The Early Post-War Years’, Conference
Austria in Exile, Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Institute of
Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, September 2005.
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16) ‘Mediation or Refraction? Marie Luise Kaschnitz’s Edition of Grillparzer’s Medea’
British Academy sponsored conference Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth’,
University of Britol, July 2006.
17) ‘Zum umstrittenen Umgang mit der Erlebniswelt der Exilanten im Spiegel der
österreichischen Kulturzeitschriften der frühen Nachkriegsjahre’, Guest Lecture,
Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia, 9 May 2007.
18) ‘Terra Incognita? Facts, Fiction and Friction in Provincial Austria’, Conference key
note paper: Beyond Austria: Aspects of Provincial Austria, Ingeborg-Bachmann-Centre,
University of London, November 2007.
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