Distortions: A socio-literary study of some influences on the production and perpetuation of the image of “the German" in English literature (with special reference to short stories)
by Henrik Eger
M.A. Thesis, University of Essex at Colchester, 1976.
I'm fully aware that “no study of any problem can be finally completed, either as far as the whole or as far as the individual details are concerned" (360). It is generally hoped, however, that by naming some distortions and ideologies—the seeds of a general death (3)—there might be a growing consciousnesses of the problems involved. And this, perhaps, could contribute toward an ongoing process of transformation, for “to understand is to change" (361).
With thanks to David Musselwhite, course director at the University of Essex, and Terry Eagleton, external examiner at Wadham College, Oxford University, as well as T.O. Beachcroft, Peter M. Bradshaw, Harvey Chisick, Harald Euler, Roger Haydon, Antony Johae, Ilse Krahnert, H. vonNostitz, Helmut Schrey, Rudolf Wiemann, and Dan Willis.
And last, but not least, I should like to thank wholeheartedly Molly and The Rev. Peter Thackray [British military chaplain, stationed in Mönchengladbach, Germany for some time] for having me as their “typing guest" throughout the whole summer—with apologies to their children Samantha and Dominic: may they and their young friends in Mönchengladbach be thoughtful people first, before they are “English" or “German."
by Henrik Eger
M.A. Thesis, University of Essex at Colchester, 1976.
I'm fully aware that “no study of any problem can be finally completed, either as far as the whole or as far as the individual details are concerned" (360). It is generally hoped, however, that by naming some distortions and ideologies—the seeds of a general death (3)—there might be a growing consciousnesses of the problems involved. And this, perhaps, could contribute toward an ongoing process of transformation, for “to understand is to change" (361).
With thanks to David Musselwhite, course director at the University of Essex, and Terry Eagleton, external examiner at Wadham College, Oxford University, as well as T.O. Beachcroft, Peter M. Bradshaw, Harvey Chisick, Harald Euler, Roger Haydon, Antony Johae, Ilse Krahnert, H. vonNostitz, Helmut Schrey, Rudolf Wiemann, and Dan Willis.
And last, but not least, I should like to thank wholeheartedly Molly and The Rev. Peter Thackray [British military chaplain, stationed in Mönchengladbach, Germany for some time] for having me as their “typing guest" throughout the whole summer—with apologies to their children Samantha and Dominic: may they and their young friends in Mönchengladbach be thoughtful people first, before they are “English" or “German."
