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Jean Améry; Dieter Hildebrandt; Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Dieter Kühn. (1999)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (1999). Jean Améry; Dieter Hildebrandt; Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Dieter Kühn. In J. Sandford (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Routledge

This user-friendly encyclopedia on German culture is part of Routledges Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture series (following Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture, LJ 10/1/98). Resourceful and well balanced, it was compiled by some 159 schol... Read More about Jean Améry; Dieter Hildebrandt; Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Dieter Kühn..

Dieter Kühn and the Speculative Biography: N, Die Präsidentin, Josephine. (1999)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (1999). Dieter Kühn and the Speculative Biography: N, Die Präsidentin, Josephine. In N. E. Thomas (Ed.), German at the Millennium (243-269). Durham Modern Languages Series

GM8: German Studies at the Millenium. German Studies at the Millenium. Edited by Neil Thomas. The essays in this volume give some sense of the range of research and teaching interests in German departments in tertiary education, and demonstrate the e... Read More about Dieter Kühn and the Speculative Biography: N, Die Präsidentin, Josephine..

Time and Narrative: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante. (1999)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (1999). Time and Narrative: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante. German Life and Letters, 52(4), 457-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00146

The existing criticism of Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante has categorised the narrative form of the texts as either 'musical', 'spatial', or 'stream-of-consciousness'. All three approaches, however, fail to take account of the inescapably... Read More about Time and Narrative: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante..

History as Biography as Fiction: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot: Eine Biographie. (1998)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (1998). History as Biography as Fiction: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot: Eine Biographie. In S. Parkes, J. Preece, & A. Williams (Eds.), Whose Story? Continuities in Contemporary German-language Literature (31-50). Peter Lang

These essays by British, German, and Austrian scholars explore the salient features of a literature reviving after a period of de-stabilization which was at once political and aesthetic. German unity coincided with generational changes among writers,... Read More about History as Biography as Fiction: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot: Eine Biographie..

Der Stille und der schwärmende Ton: Notes on Block and Brecht in the Twenties and Thirties. (1998)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (1998). Der Stille und der schwärmende Ton: Notes on Block and Brecht in the Twenties and Thirties. In S. Giles, & R. Livingstone (Eds.), Bertold Brecht Centenary Essays. Rodopi

The publication of this volume of essays marks the centenary of the birth of Bertolt Brecht on 10 February 1898. The essays were commissioned from scholars and critics around the world, and cover six main areas: recent biographical controversies; neg... Read More about Der Stille und der schwärmende Ton: Notes on Block and Brecht in the Twenties and Thirties..