New Books
Three A&S faculty are among co-authors of an interdisciplinary book on Germany.
THE HAPPY BURDEN OF HISTORY: From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood. Andrew Stuart Bergerson, (History) K. Scott Baker, (Foreign Languages and Literatures, Clancy Martin, (Philosophy) and Steve Ostovich ( College of St. Scholastica)
The Happy Burden of History takes an integrative approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced the ethical challenges of the Third Reich, it focuses on five typical tools for cultivating the modern self: myths, lies, nonconformity, irony, and modeling. It was published by: De Gruyeter, March 2011.
For more see:
http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/li/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110246360-1&ad=he
Steve Dilks (English) has had his new book Samuel Beckett in the Literary Marketplace published by Syracuse University Press.
. http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2011/ samuel-beckett.html
For a review of Dilks’ book see: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/23/2817381/readorama-umkc-professors-book.html
For more activities and achievements of the English Department see:
http://cas.umkc.edu/english/documents/Newsletter–Spring%202011%20Issue%202.pdf
