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Publications of William C. Donahue    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. William Collins Donahue. Holocaust Lite: Bernhard Schlinks “NS-Romane” und ihre Verfilmungen.  Aisthesis Verlag, 2011.  [author's comments]
  2. William Collins Donahue. Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink’s ‘Nazi’ Novels and Films.  Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010.  [author's comments]
  3. Donahue, W.C.. The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fé.  Series in Germanic Languages and Literatures Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. (Winner of the 2002 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures. Reviewed in German Quarterly, German Studies Review, Modern Language Review, Modern Austrian Literature)

Edited Volumes

  1. W. C. Donahue & Martha Helfer. Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies. Camden House/Boydell & Brewer, 2011 ().
  2. W.C. Donahue & Jochen Vogt. andererseits 2. Transatlantic Journal of German Studies, 2011 ().
  3. William Collins Donahue & Jochen Vogt. andererseits: Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies. Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr, 2010 (260 pp pp.).
  4. with Julian Preece. The Worlds of Elias Canetti: Centenary Essays. Cambridge Scholars, 2007 (xxvii + 283 pp pp.).
  5. Judith Ryan. The Novel After Theory. Rutgers German Studies Occasional Papers #5(The Fall 2003 Rodig Lecture)Department of Germanic, Russian and East European Languages & Literatures, Rutgers University, 2006 (). (Edited and introduced by William Collins Donahue)
  6. David Constantine. The Poet, the Reader and the Citizen. Rutgers German Studies Occasional Papers #6(The 2004 Craig Lecture)The Department of Germanic, Russian and East European Languages & Literature, Rutgers University, 2006 (). (Edited and introduced by William Collins Donahue)
  7. Hanno Loewy. Tales of Mass Destruction and Survival: Holocaust, Genre and Fiction in the Movies and on TV. Rutgers German Studies Occasional Papers 4(The 2003 Craig-Kade Lecture)Department of German, Russian & East European Languages & Literature, Rutgers University, 2005 (). (Edited and introduced by William Collins Donahue)
  8. Ritchie Robertson. Scandinavian Modernism & the Battle of the Sexes: Kafka, Strindberg and The Castle. Rutgers German Studies Occasional Papers #3(The Spring 2003 Rodig Lecture)Department of Germanic, Russian and East European Languages & Literatures, Rutgers University, 2004 (). (Edited and introduced by William Collins Donahue)
  9.  History & Literature: Essays in Honor of Karl Guthke. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2000 ().

Articles in a Collection

  1. W.C. Donahue & Martin Kagel. "Saving German Studies, via Europe." . January 2, 2012.
  2. W.C. Donahue. "Germans' Lingering Link to the Wall." . August 14, 2011.  [abs]  [author's comments]
  3. W.C. Donahue. "In Her Own Words: Veza Canetti's Letters to Georges."  Ed. W. C. Donahue & Jochen Vogt. Universitaetsverlag Rhein-Ruhr & Duke University Libraries, August, 2011, 81-98.  [abs]
  4. William Collins Donahue. "The Missing Jew in Mind of the German New Left: Uwe Timm’s Rot (2001) as ‘Rejoinder’ to Heißer Sommer (1974)."  Ed. Paul Michael Lützeler. 2010, 122-42.  [author's comments]
  5. William Collins Donahue. "Kien the Anti-Faust: Canetti's Dialogue with Goethe."  Ed. Donahue & Vogt. Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr, 2010, 107-18.
  6.  "Elusive ’68: The Challenge to Pedagogy." . 2008, 113-23.
  7. with Jochen Wohlfeil. "Reciprocal Relationships and Lifelong Learning: Twenty Years of Duke in Berlin." . Fall, 2007, 133-42.
  8.  "Canetti on Safari: The Self-Reflexive Moment of Die Stimmen von Marrakesch." The Worlds of Elias Canetti: Centenary Essays Ed. William Donahue and Julian Preece. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, 47-61.
  9.  "Alte und Neue Welten in Elias Canettis _Die Blendung_ and Fritz Langs _Metropolis_ [Old and New Worlds in Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fé and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis]." Der untote Gott: Religion und Ästhetik in der deutschen und österreichischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts [The Undead God: Religion and Aesthetics in German and Austrian Literature of the Twentieth Century] Ed. Olaf Berwald and Gregor Thuswaldner. Böhlau, 2007, 27-38.
  10.  "Canetti's Many (After-) Lives [Introduction]." The Worlds of Elias Canetti: Centenary Essays Ed. William Collins Donahue & Julian Preece. Cambridge Scholars, 2007, xi-xxvii.
  11.  "Normal as Apolitical: Uwe Timm's _Rot_ and Thomas Brussig's _Leben bis Maenner_." German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the 21st Century: Beyond Normalization Ed. Paul Cooke and Stuart Taberner. Camden House, 2006, 181-94.
  12.  "How Much German in German Studies?." . Fall, 2005, 521-24. (Forum article)
  13.  "Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, The Jews’ Beech (Die Judenbuche)." Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution Ed. Richard S. Levy. ABC-CLIO, 2005, 383-84.
  14.  "Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)." Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution Ed. Richard S. Levy. ABC-CLIO, 2005, 232-33.
  15.  "Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Garbage, the City, and Death (Der Müll, die Stadt, und der Tod)." Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution Ed. Richard S. Levy. ABC-CLIO, 2005, 253-54.
  16.  "Thomas Mann (1875-1955)." Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution Ed. Richard S. Levy. ABC-CLIO, 2005, 443-45.
  17. Donahue, W.C.. "The Popular Culture Alibi: Bernhard Schlink’s Detective Novels and the Culture of Politically Correct Holocaust Literature." . Fall, 2004, 462-481.
  18. Donahue, W.C.. "Revising ’68: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser, Peter Schneider’s Vati and the Question of History." . September, 2004, 293-311.
  19. Donahue, W.C.. "The Shadow Play of Religion in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis." . 2004, 207-221.
  20. Donahue, W.C.. "Good-bye to All That: Elias Canetti’s Obituaries." A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti Ed. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004, 25-41.
  21. Donahue, W.C.. "Canetti as Religionist? The Redemption of Fiction for Social Analysis in Crowds and Power." Literary Canons and Religious Identity Ed. Erik Borgman, Bart Philipsen & Lea Verstricht. Hants: Ashgate, 2004, 69-78.
  22. Donahue, W.C.. "Der Holocaust als Anlass zur Selbstbemitleidung: Geschichtsschüchternheit in Bernhard Schlinks Der Vorleser." Rechenschaften. Juristischer und literarischer Diskurs in der Auseinandersetzung mit den NS-Massenverbrechen Ed. Stephan Braese. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004, 177-197. (This is a shorter and revised version of my 2001 article that appeared in German Life and Letters.)
  23. Donahue, W.C.. "Ein politisch fortschrittlicher Rilke: Kunst als Politik in den Zwei Prager Geschichten” [“Rilke as Political Progressive: Art as Politics in the Zwei Prager Geschichten." . 2003, 81-105.
  24. Donahue, W.C.. "Illusions of Subtlety: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser and the Moral Limits of Holocaust Fiction." . January, 2001, 60–81.
  25. Donahue, W.C.. "The End of History: ‘Eschatology’ in Elias Canetti’s Masse und Macht." Fin de siècle—Fin du millénaire: Endzeitstimmungen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur Ed. Helmut Koopmann & Hans-Jörg Knobloch. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001, 113-134.
  26. Donahue, W.C.. "Of Pretty Boys and Nasty Girls: The Holocaust in Two German Films of the 90s." . 2000, 108-124.
  27. Donahue, W.C.. "The Real ‘Tora Connection’ in Barbara Honigmann’s Soharas Reise." Literatur und Identität: Deutsch-deutsche Befindlichkeiten und die multikulturelle Gesellschaft Ed. Ursula Beitter. New York: Peter Lang, 2000, 69-80.
  28. Donahue, W.C.. "Beyond Cultural Literacy: ‘Interactive Autobiography’ as Holocaust Pedagogy." Shedding Light on the Darkness: North American Germanists Teach the Holocaust Ed. Miriam Jokiniemi & Nancy A. Lauckner. New York: Berghahn, 2000, 211-224.
  29. Donahue, W.C.. "Die Blendung (1935; Auto-da-Fé)." Encyclopedia of German Literature Ed. Michael Konzett. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000, 170-172.
  30. Donahue, W.C.. "Masse und Macht (1960; Crowds and Power)." Encyclopedia of German Literature Ed. Michael Konzett. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000, 173-175.
  31. Donahue, W.C.. "Die Blendung: Elias Canetti's ‘Viennese’ Novel." . 1999, 247-270.
  32. Donahue, W.C.. "“‘Ist er kein Jude, dann verdiente er einer zu sein’: Droste-Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche and Religious Anti-Semitism." . 1999, 44–73. (Awarded the Max Kade Prize for Best Article of the Year, 1999)
  33. Donahue, W.C.. "Holocaust as History Lesson? Contestatory Voices." . 1999, 28–40. (Publication of the Austrian Cultural Institute, New York)
  34. Donahue, W.C.. "Eigentlich bist du eine Frau. Du bestehst aus Sensationen’: Misogyny as Cultural Critique in Elias Canetti’s Die Blendung." . December, 1997, 668–700.
  35. Donahue, W.C.. "Cold Water in Our Faces: American Germanists Meet Eastern European Authors." . September 12, 1997, 11.
  36. Donahue, W.C. & Cohn, R.L.. "Cultural Reparations? Jews and Jewish Studies in Germany Today." . Spring, 1997, 94–116.
  37. Donahue, W.C.. "Bless My Homeland Forever’: Teaching Austria and the Holocaust." . Fall, 1996, 188–200.
  38. Donahue, W.C. & Cohn, R.L.. "Ein Besuch, der manche Fragen offenließ: Amerikanische Wissenschaftler auf den Spuren jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland." . July 26, 1996, 8. (A somewhat longer version of this essay appeared in English in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin 26.1 (1996): 13.)
  39. Donahue, W.C.. "'We shall not speak of it': Nazism and the Holocaust in the Elementary College Course." . 1994, 88–104. (Winner of the 1995 Best Article of the Year, Die Unterrichtspraxis)
  40. Donahue, W.C.. "The Kiss of the Spider Woman: Gotthelf's ‘Matricentric’ Pedagogy and its Postwar Reception." . 1994, 304-324. (Winner of the 1994 Esther Sellholm Walz Prize for Best Essay, Harvard University, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures)
  41. Donahue, W.C. & Cohn, R.L.. "Vicarious Pleasures—Critical Interventions: German Political Literature Revisited." . 1994, 125-135.
  42. Donahue, W.C.. "Creative Writing in the Elementary German Classroom: A Plädoyer for Poetry." . 1991, 183-189.
  43. Donahue, W.C.. "The Role of the Oratorium in Schnitzler's Leutnant Gustl: Divine and Decadent." . 1990, 29–42.
  44. Donahue, W.C.. "Andeutungen (Zu Thomas Bernhards Die Ursache Eine Andeutung)." . 1988, 89–105.

Editing a Special Edition of a Journal

  1. Donahue, W.C.. "Germany in the American Mind: The American Postwar Reception of German Culture."  Ed. Guest co-editor and introduction, with Peter McIsaac 1995: 209 pp.
  2. Donahue, W.C.. "Getting over the Wall: Recent Reflections on German Art and Politics since the Third Reich."  Ed. Guest co-editor and introduction with Rachel Freudenburg & Daniel Reynolds 1992: 155 pp.

Book Reviews

  1. W.C. Donahue, Rev of Ingeborg Bachmann: Kriegstagebuch. Mit Briefen von Jack Hamesh an Ingeborg Bachmann, ed. Hans Hoeller. Modern Austrian Literature  (2012).
  2. W.C. Donahue, Rev of Elias Canetti, Veza Canetti: Briefe an Georges, eds. Karen Lauer et al.. Modern Austrian Literature  (2011).
  3.  Rev of Der Überlebende und sein Doppel: Kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen zum Werk Elias Canettis, ed. Susanne Lüdemann. German Quarterly  (2010).  [author's comments]
  4.  Rev of Der Fall “Judenbuche”: Revision eines Fehlurteils, by Norbert Mecklenburg. German Studies Review  (2010).  [author's comments]
  5.  Komik und Gewalt: Zur literarischen Verarbeitung der beiden Weltkriege und der Shoah, by Anne D. Peiter. German Studies Review  (2009).
  6.  Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century, by Mark Roche. Colloquia Germanica 39:3/4 (2006): 428-29.
  7.  A History of Austrian Literature, 1918-2000. Modern Austrian Literature 40:4 (2007): 163-65.
  8.  Elias Canetti: Das Hörwerk 1953-1991. Prosa, Dramen, Essays, Vorträge, Reden, Gespräche. Modern Austrian Literature 41:4 (2008): 111-13.
  9.  Elias Canetti. Biographie, by Sven Hanuschek. The German Quarterly  (Fall, 2006).
  10.  Elias Canetti’s Counter-Image of Society: Crowds, Power and Transformation, by Johann P. Arnasan and David Roberts. The German Quarterly 79:2 (Spring, 2006): 269-71.
  11.  German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899, edited by Clayton Koelb and Eric Downing. German Studies Review  (February, 2007): 177.
  12.  Elektra after Freud: Myth and Culture, by Jill Scott. Modern Austrian Literature 38:1/2 (2005): 86-89.
  13. W. C. Donahue, Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies: An Introduction, by Henk de Berg. Modern Austrian Literature 37:3/4 (2004): 70-73.
  14. Donahue, W.C., Double Exposures: Repetition and Realism in Nineteenth-Century German Fiction, by Eric Downing. The European Legacy: Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas 8:5 (October, 2003): 662-663.
  15. Donahue, W.C., Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti’s and Franz Baermann Steiner’s Responses to the Shoah, by Michael Mack. Modern Judaism 23:3 (2003): 306-310.
  16. Donahue, W.C., Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914, by Peter Gay. Modern Austrian Literature 35:3/4 (2002): 115-117.
  17. Donahue, W.C., Critical Essays on Elias Canetti, edited by David Darby. German Quarterly 75:3 (2002): 354-356.
  18. Donahue, W.C., Bertolt Brecht: Centenary Essays, edited by Steve Giles and Rodney Livingstone. German Studies Review 23:2 (2000): 461-462.
  19. Donahue, W.C., Aus der Judengasse: Zur Entstehung und Ausprägung deutschsprachiger Ghettoliteratur im 19. Jahrhundert, by Gabriele von Glasenapp. Monatshefte 91:4 (Winter, 1999): 560-562.
  20.  “The Persistence of Tradition,” review of Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism, by Noah Isenberg. H-NET Book Review. H-Antisemitism@H-net.msu.edu.  (October, 1999).  [author's comments]
  21. Donahue, W.C., Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler’s Death Camps, compiled by Eugene Aroneanu. Monatshefte 90:2 (Summer, 1998): 275-276.
  22. Donahue, W.C., Canetti and Nietzsche: Theories of Humor in “Die Blendung,” by Harriet Murphy. German Studies Review 21:1 (February, 1998): 206-208.
  23. Donahue, W.C., Widerstand und Konformismus: Positionen des Subjekts im Faschismus bei Andersch, Kluge, Enzensberger und Peter Weiss, by Friedemann J. Weidauer. German Studies Review 20:1 (February, 1997): 202-203.
  24. Donahue, W.C., Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany, by Maria Tatar. German Politics & Society 14:4 (Winter, 1996): 103-105.
  25. Donahue, W.C., Zum Thema Nationalsozialismus im DaF-Werk und -Unterricht, eds. Warmbold, Joachim, E.-Anette Koeppel, & Hans-Simon Pelada. Die Unterrichtspraxis 28:1 (Spring, 1995): 107-108.
  26. Donahue, W.C., Visions of War. Ideologies and Images of War in German Literature Before and After the Great War, by Scott D. Denham. German Politics & Society 28 (1993): 75-79.
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