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Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce following new publication(s) in German Studies: * Refuge and Reality: Feuchtwanger and the European Émigrés in California. Edited by Pól O’Dochartaigh and Alexander Stephan. Amsterdam/New York, NY 2005. VIII, 140 pp. (German Monitor 61) ISBN: 90-420-1945-X Bound € 40,-/ US $ 56.- Online Info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=GM+61 More info: This volume brings together papers by scholars from Germany, the USA, France, England and Ireland given at the first International Feuchtwanger Conference, held in Los Angeles in 2003. Some of Lion Feuchtwanger’s novels from his exile in the United States are analyzed here, as are the lives of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger and their contacts in the German émigré world in California. In addition, two papers focus on aspects of Bertolt Brecht’s and Alfred Döblin’s lives as emigrants in California. This volume is of interest to students of exile studies, of German refuge in the USA and of modern German literature. Pól O’Dochartaigh is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Among his recent publications are Germany since 1945 (Basingstoke and New York, 2004) and Julius Pokorny, 1887-1970: Germans, Celts and Nationalism (Dublin, 2004). Alexander Stephan is Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar and Senior Fellow at the Mershon Center for the Study of International Security at Ohio State University, USA. Among his numerous publications are 'Communazis.' FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers (New Haven, 2000; German Stuttgart, 1995), Anna Seghers: 'Das siebte Kreuz'. Welt und Wirkung eines Romans (Berlin, 1997) and Die deutsche Exilliteratur 1933-1945. Eine Einführung (Munich, 1979). ------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please refer to our website at http://www.rodopi.nl or send an email to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] (for subscriptions only). -------------------------------------------------------------------