PD Dr. Wolfgang Werth
The Department of Anglophone Studies sadly announces that our long-time colleague PD Dr. Wolfgang Werth
succumbed to his illness on Saturday, August 6, 2011. We will miss a dear and learned colleague and teacher.
Courses Taught at the UDE
Lectures:
- Pillars of American Fiction: From Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe to Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Henry James and Others
- Beyond America and Great Britain: Literature from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, India and Elsewhere
- The Postmodern Tradition in American Fiction - from Nabokov to Pynchon and DeLillo
- Literature of Dissent in the United States - Writing against the American Dream
Seminars:
- Understanding Modern Poetry: Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Doolittle, Moore, Pound and Others
-
"The Rupture of Poetry": Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell