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Rudolf Koester

Emeritus Professor of Foreign Languages (German)

Department(s)
World Languages and Cultures

Selections of Scholarship

Books

  • Jakob Wassermann (Köpfe des 20. Jahrhunderts). (German Edition)
  • Morgenbuch, 1996. Hermann Broch (Köpfe des 20. Jahrhunderts). (German Edition) Colloquium, 1987

Articles

  • “Jakob Wassermann, anti-Semitism and German Politics.” Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literary Studies 53 (1998)
  • “Herman [Hermann] Hesse und Jakob Wassermann.” Herman-Hesse-Jahrbuch; Verlag Koenigshausen und Neumann 2 (2005)
  • “Faulty and Felicitous Approaches to Thomas Mann.” Monatshefte für Deutschen Unterrict, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur 85 (1993)
  • “Terminal Sanctity or Benign Banality: The Critical Controversy Surrounding Hermann Hesse.” Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 27 (1973)
  • “The Ascent of the Criminal in German Comedy.” German Quarterly 43 (1970)
  • “Hermann Hesse Bibliographie 19631972: Versuch einer Erganzung.” Librarium: Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft/Revue de la Société Suisse des Bibliophiles 15 (1972)
  • “Theodore Fontane Bibliography- A Supplement.” German Quarterly 41 (1968)
  • “Kaiser’s Von morgens bis mitternachts and Hesse’s Klein und Wagner: Two Explorations of Crime and Human Transcendence.” Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literary Studies 24 (1969)
  • “Everyman and Mammon – The Persistence of a Theme in Modern German Drama.” Revue des Langues Vivantes 35 (1969)
  • “Is Infallibility Necessary? A Note on the Chronology of Buddenbrooks.” CLA Journal 11 (1967)
  • “Hesse’s Music Master: In Search of a Prototype.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 3 (1967)
  • “Death by Miscalculation: Some Notes on Suicide in Fontane’s Prose.” German Life and Letters 20 (1966)