Contemporaries in Cultural Criticism - Tapa dura

A sequel to Classics in Cultural Criticism I and II, this volume extends the synoptic view into the present and thus systematically supplements the first two volumes. The overall conception is analogous to that of the predecessors and, consistent with the general design, the book is again the fruit of a joint labor of English/American and german scholarship. The contemporary critics dealt with encompass Raymond Williams (Tony Pinkney), Leslie Fiedler (Walter Kuehnel), E.P. Thompson (Richard Stinshoff), Fredric Jameson (Ingrid Kerkhoff), Daniel Bell (Heinz Tschachler), Susan Sontag (Gary Grieve-Carlson), James Baldwin (Klaus Ensslen), Theodore Roszak (Thomas R. West), Edward Said (Guenter H. Lenz), Christopher Lasch /Rosita Becke), Stuart Hall (Ingrid von Rosenberg), Kate Millett (Blanche Linden-Ward), C.L.R. James (Jens David), Adrienne Rich (Elizabeth Meese), Neil Postmann (Peter Ludes).The book is prefaced by the editors and again features bibliographies of the works of all critics under discussion.

The Editors: Hartmut Heuermann, born 1941, is Professor of American Studies at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He studied at the universities of Marburg and Boston. He holds a Master's degree from Boston University and Ph.D. from Marburg University. In 1982-83 he held a visiting appointment at B.U. From 1987-90 he served as vice-president of the Technical University at Braunschweig. His publications are in the field of American culture and literature, reader response criticism, and the teaching of literature. Bernd-Peter Lange, born 1943, is Professor of English at Oldenburg University. He studied at the universities of Hamburg, Berlin, London, and took his Ph.D. at Free University Berlin. He has taught at Free University Berlin, The Technical University of Braunschweig and Oldenburg University. His publications concern cultural studies, English literature, and literary theory.