Pamela S Saur
Biographic Data
| ID | 6251407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela S Saur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela S |
| FAMILY NAME | Saur |
| SIGNATURE | SAUR P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lamar University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Investigating Franz Kafka’s “Der Bau”
Reviewed by: Investigating Franz Kafka's "Der Bau": Towards an Understanding of His Late Narrative in a Jewish Context by Andrea Newsom Ebarb Pamela S. Saur Andrea Newsom Ebarb, Investigating Franz Kafka's "Der Bau": Towards an Understanding of His Late Narrative in a Jewish Context. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023. 266 pp. Franz Kafka's unfinished thirty-nine-page story "Der Bau" (published post-humously in 1931), is one of his "lesser-known" works, bu…
Mitdenken
Reviewed by: Mitdenken: Paul Celans Theorie der Dichtung heute ed. by Evelyn Dueck and Sandro Zanetti Pamela S. Saur Evelyn Dueck and Sandro Zanetti, eds., Mitdenken: Paul Celans Theorie der Dichtung heute. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2022. 181 pp. In the introduction to Mitdenken: Paul Celans Theorie der Dichtung, the editors, Evelyn Dueck and Sandro Zanetti, discuss the theoretical basis of the poetic oeuvre of Paul Celan (1920–1970)…
Confrontational Readings
Reviewed by: Confrontational Readings: Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Dutch and German ed. by Inge Arteel, Lars Bernaert, and Olivier Couder Pamela S. Saur Inge Arteel, Lars Bernaert, and Olivier Couder, eds., Confrontational Readings: Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Dutch and German. Legenda: Germanic Literatures 21. London: Modern Research Association, 2020. 234 pp. Confrontational Readings: Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Dutch and German is the twent…
Das Schöne im Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns
Reviewed by: Das Schöne im Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns: Zur Aktualität einer zentralen ästhetischen Kategorie nach 1945 by Lina Užukauskaitè Pamela S. Saur Lina Užukauskaitè, Das Schöne im Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns: Zur Aktualität einer zentralen ästhetischen Kategorie nach 1945. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 2021. 288 pp. In the introduction to the book Das Schöne im Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns: Zur Aktualität einer zentralen ästhetischen Kategor…
Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas by Alicia E. Ellis
Reviewed by: Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas by Alicia E. Ellis Pamela S. Saur Alicia E. Ellis, Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 175 pp. The new study of Grillparzer by Alicia E. Ellis discusses the female protagonists in three of his classical dramas. The study emphasizes gender, identity, and related issues such as women’s …
Lebensspuren
Reviewed by: Lebensspuren: Autobiografik von Exil, Widerstand, Verfolgung und Lagererfahrung ed. by Konstantin Kaiser et al. Pamela S. Saur Konstantin Kaiser, Irene Nawrocka, Corina Prochazka, and Marianne Windsperger, eds., Lebensspuren: Autobiografik von Exil, Widerstand, Verfolgung und Lagererfahrung. Zwischenwelt 15. Vienna: Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft and Drava Verlag, 2020. 464 pp. The informative, thought-provoking, and often moving collec…
The Naked Truth
Reviewed by: The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body by Alys X. George Pamela S. Saur Alys X. George, The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. 322 pp. The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body is a significant scholarly study that is based on a great deal of meticulous research in several fields. It develops a convincing thesis while challenging common assumptions and shining a light on nume…
Scardanelli by Friederike Mayröcker
Reviewed by: Scardanelli by Friederike Mayröcker Pamela S. Saur Friederike Mayröcker, Scardanelli. Translation by Jonathan Larson. New York: The Song Cave, 2018. 48 pp. Since her debut in the 1950s, the Viennese writer Friederike Mayröcker, born in 1924, has churned out volume after volume of poetry, prose, radio plays, and montages and hybrid forms of her own creation. Her works, which have won many prestigious prizes, have been labeled avant-ga…
Kafkas Poetik by Ulrich Stadler
Reviewed by: Kafkas Poetik by Ulrich Stadler Pamela S. Saur Ulrich Stadler, Kafkas Poetik. Zurich: Edition Voldemeer, De Gruyter, 2019. 337 pp. In the "Vorwort und Vorschau" of Kafkas Poetik, Ulrich Stadler addresses the extraordinary number of published interpretations of Franz Kafka's texts. Among the approaches taken are "biographisch-positivistische, religiöse, philosophische, psychoanalytische, soziologische, marxistische, ethnographische," …
"Ich schreibe, also bin ich"
Reviewed by: "Ich schreibe, also bin ich": Schreibweisen bei Barbara Frischmuth ed. by Anna Babka, Silvana Cimenti, and Peter Clar Pamela S. Saur Anna Babka, Silvana Cimenti, and Peter Clar, eds., "Ich schreibe, also bin ich": Schreibweisen bei Barbara Frischmuth. Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2019. 253 pp. This charming and informative volume is quite similar to the 2016 volume on Barbara Frischmuth, Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg, also edit…
Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg
Reviewed by: Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg: Grenzüberschreitungen bei Barbara Frischmuth ed. by Anna Babka, Peter Clar Pamela S. Saur Anna Babka and Peter Clar, eds., Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg: Grenzüberschreitungen bei Barbara Frischmuth. Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2016. 274 pp. The title of the book Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg comes from a 1996 poem by Barbara Frischmuth that appeared around the time …
Adalbert Stifter oder Diese fürchterliche Wendung der Dinge
Reviewed by: Adalbert Stifter oder Diese fürchterliche Wendung der Dinge: Biographie by Wolfgang Matz Pamela S. Saur Wolfgang Matz, Adalbert Stifter oder Diese fürchterliche Wendung der Dinge: Biographie. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016. 391 pp. A bibliographic search for Wolfgang Matz's book Adalbert Stifter oder Diese fürchterliche Wendung der Dinge: Biographie, will yield two results a 1995 volume published by Carl Hanser Verlag and an editi…
Operation Literatur
Reviewed by: Operation Literatur: Zur Interdependenz von literarischem Diskurs und Schmerzdiskurs im “Prager Kreis” im Kontext der Moderne by Sandy Scheffler Pamela S. Saur Sandy Scheffler, Operation Literatur: Zur Interdependenz von literarischem Diskurs und Schmerzdiskurs im “Prager Kreis” im Kontext der Moderne. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. 440 pp. Operation Literatur’s lengthy introduction (82 pages) serves several purposes. C…
Einführung in die Literaturpragmatik mit einer Beispielanalyse von Kafkas Roman Der Prozess by Elfie Poulain
Reviewed by: Einführung in die Literaturpragmatik mit einer Beispielanalyse von Kafkas Roman Der Prozess by Elfie Poulain Pamela S. Saur Elfie Poulain, Einführung in die Literaturpragmatik mit einer Beispielanalyse von Kafk as Roman Der Prozess. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 110 pp. Elfie Poulain's book Einführung in die Literaturpragmatik mit einer Beispielanalyse von Kafkas's Roman Der Prozess is aptly titled. The first portion, …
Novel affinities
Novel affinities: composing the family in the German novel, 1795–1830." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 25(3), pp. 384–385
Irony’s Antics
Reviewed by: Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition by Erica Weitzman Pamela S. Saur Erica Weitzman, Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2015. 257pp. Erica Weitzman’s book Irony’s Antics is subtitled Walser, Kafka, Roth and the German Comic Tradition. A few comments on this title are in order. As mentions of the Swiss writer Robert Walser and the Austrians Fr…
Ludwig’s Room by Alois Hotschnig
Reviewed by: Ludwig’s Room by Alois Hotschnig Pamela S. Saur Alois Hotschnig, Ludwig’s Room. Translation by Tess Lewis. London: Seagull Books, 2014. 146 pp. The translator of the novel Ludwig’s Room by Alois Hotschnig, born in 1959, is Tess Lewis. Also the translator of Hotschnig’s story collection Maybe this Time, published in 2011, Lewis has impressive credentials as an editor, writer, and translator of important French and German books. She ha…
Poetik des Hasses in der österreichischen Literatur
Reviewed by: Poetik des Hasses in der österreichischen Literatur: Studien zu ausgewählten Texten by Marta Wimmer Pamela S. Saur Marta Wimmer, Poetik des Hasses in der österreichischen Literatur: Studien zu ausgewählten Texten. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2014. 277pp. Introductory sections of Marta Wimmer’s book on “Poetik des Hasses” discuss hate (Hass) and related concepts such as anger, rage, self-hatred, and love/hate complexes as well as ster…
Spannungsfelder
Reviewed by: Spannungsfelder: Zur deutschsprachigen Literatur im Kalten Krieg (1945–1968) ed. by Günther Stocker and Michael Rohrwasser Pamela S. Saur Günther Stocker and Michael Rohrwasser, eds., Spannungsfelder: Zur deutschsprachigen Literatur im Kalten Krieg (1945–1968). Wuppertal: Arco Wissenschaft, 2014. 356 pp. There is a general consensus that historical developments and ideological movements interact with literature and writers’ lives in …
Joseph Roth als Stilist
Reviewed by: Joseph Roth als Stilist: Annäherung durch Theorie und Übersetzung ed. by Nora Hoffmann and Natalia Shchyhlevska Pamela S. Saur Nora Hoffmann and Natalia Shchyhlevska, eds., Joseph Roth als Stilist: Annäherung durch Theorie und Übersetzung. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 270 pp. Occasionally collections of essays emerging from scholarly conferences suffer from lack of unity and central purpose, but this is far from true …
Unerwartete Entdeckungen
Reviewed by: Unerwartete Entdeckungen: Beiträge zur österreichischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts ed. by Julia Danielczyk and Ulrike Tanzer Pamela S. Saur Julia Danielczyk and Ulrike Tanzer, eds., Unerwartete Entdeckungen: Beiträge zur österreichischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Vienna: Verlagsbüro Johann Lehner, 2014. 271 pp. As in any academic field, the word research in literary studies generally refers to scholarly work that results in…
The Space of Words
Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger. Christa Wolf and Martin Walser
Vergeblicher Versuch das Fliegen zu Erlernen
Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig (review)
Reviewed by: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig Pamela S. Saur Alois Hotschnig, Maybe This Time. Trans. Tess Lewis. London: Peirene Press, 2011. 107 pp. Maybe This Time is an excellent English translation of the 2006 short story collection Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht by Austrian writer Alois Hotschnig, born in 1959. This collection was published by Peirene Press in London, founded in 2008, which specializes in contemporary European books in En…
Modernity
Peter WAGNER, Wiley, 2012,, ISBN 978-0-74565-2917, 190 pp. Much of Peter Wagner's book Modernity: Understanding the Present might be addressed to a reader still holding the worldview prevailing in
Schreiben frauen anders
Gender and Germanness
Grillparzer's Libussa
Reeve not only offers a close textual analysis of the drama from the aspect of separation but shows how Libussa and its author fit into the development of the history of ideas in nineteenth-century Europe. He contends that Grillparzer's work reflects Bachofen, Neumann, Nietzsche, Freud, and Lacan. Using Freudian psychoanalysis, Neumann's investigation of the female archetype, and anthropological studies, Reeve argues that Grillparzer's tragedy po…
Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig (review)
Reviewed by: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig Pamela S. Saur Alois Hotschnig, Maybe This Time. Trans. Tess Lewis. London: Peirene Press, 2011. 107 pp. Maybe This Time is an excellent English translation of the 2006 short story collection Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht by Austrian writer Alois Hotschnig, born in 1959. This collection was published by Peirene Press in London, founded in 2008, which specializes in contemporary European books in En…
H. C. Artmann’s Structuralist Imagination
Reviewed by: H. C. Artmann’s Structuralist Imagination: A Semiotic Study of His Aesthetic and Postmodernity by Marc-Oliver Schuster Pamela S. Saur Marc-Oliver Schuster, H. C. Artmann’s Structuralist Imagination: A Semiotic Study of His Aesthetic and Postmodernity. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. 585 pp. Although a substantial number of scholarly studies have been published on H. C. Artmann and other members of the Wiener Gruppe, Marc-Oliv…
Imperial Messages
Modernity
Peter WAGNER, Wiley, 2012,, ISBN 978-0-74565-2917, 190 pp. Much of Peter Wagner's book Modernity: Understanding the Present might be addressed to a reader still holding the worldview prevailing in
Vergeblicher Versuch das Fliegen zu Erlernen
Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger. Christa Wolf and Martin Walser
Joseph Roth als Stilist
Reviewed by: Joseph Roth als Stilist: Annäherung durch Theorie und Übersetzung ed. by Nora Hoffmann and Natalia Shchyhlevska Pamela S. Saur Nora Hoffmann and Natalia Shchyhlevska, eds., Joseph Roth als Stilist: Annäherung durch Theorie und Übersetzung. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 270 pp. Occasionally collections of essays emerging from scholarly conferences suffer from lack of unity and central purpose, but this is far from true …
Unerwartete Entdeckungen
Reviewed by: Unerwartete Entdeckungen: Beiträge zur österreichischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts ed. by Julia Danielczyk and Ulrike Tanzer Pamela S. Saur Julia Danielczyk and Ulrike Tanzer, eds., Unerwartete Entdeckungen: Beiträge zur österreichischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Vienna: Verlagsbüro Johann Lehner, 2014. 271 pp. As in any academic field, the word research in literary studies generally refers to scholarly work that results in…
The Space of Words
Irony’s Antics
Reviewed by: Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition by Erica Weitzman Pamela S. Saur Erica Weitzman, Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2015. 257pp. Erica Weitzman’s book Irony’s Antics is subtitled Walser, Kafka, Roth and the German Comic Tradition. A few comments on this title are in order. As mentions of the Swiss writer Robert Walser and the Austrians Fr…
Ludwig’s Room by Alois Hotschnig
Reviewed by: Ludwig’s Room by Alois Hotschnig Pamela S. Saur Alois Hotschnig, Ludwig’s Room. Translation by Tess Lewis. London: Seagull Books, 2014. 146 pp. The translator of the novel Ludwig’s Room by Alois Hotschnig, born in 1959, is Tess Lewis. Also the translator of Hotschnig’s story collection Maybe this Time, published in 2011, Lewis has impressive credentials as an editor, writer, and translator of important French and German books. She ha…
Poetik des Hasses in der österreichischen Literatur
Reviewed by: Poetik des Hasses in der österreichischen Literatur: Studien zu ausgewählten Texten by Marta Wimmer Pamela S. Saur Marta Wimmer, Poetik des Hasses in der österreichischen Literatur: Studien zu ausgewählten Texten. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2014. 277pp. Introductory sections of Marta Wimmer’s book on “Poetik des Hasses” discuss hate (Hass) and related concepts such as anger, rage, self-hatred, and love/hate complexes as well as ster…
Spannungsfelder
Reviewed by: Spannungsfelder: Zur deutschsprachigen Literatur im Kalten Krieg (1945–1968) ed. by Günther Stocker and Michael Rohrwasser Pamela S. Saur Günther Stocker and Michael Rohrwasser, eds., Spannungsfelder: Zur deutschsprachigen Literatur im Kalten Krieg (1945–1968). Wuppertal: Arco Wissenschaft, 2014. 356 pp. There is a general consensus that historical developments and ideological movements interact with literature and writers’ lives in …
Adalbert Stifter oder Diese fürchterliche Wendung der Dinge
Reviewed by: Adalbert Stifter oder Diese fürchterliche Wendung der Dinge: Biographie by Wolfgang Matz Pamela S. Saur Wolfgang Matz, Adalbert Stifter oder Diese fürchterliche Wendung der Dinge: Biographie. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016. 391 pp. A bibliographic search for Wolfgang Matz's book Adalbert Stifter oder Diese fürchterliche Wendung der Dinge: Biographie, will yield two results a 1995 volume published by Carl Hanser Verlag and an editi…
Operation Literatur
Reviewed by: Operation Literatur: Zur Interdependenz von literarischem Diskurs und Schmerzdiskurs im “Prager Kreis” im Kontext der Moderne by Sandy Scheffler Pamela S. Saur Sandy Scheffler, Operation Literatur: Zur Interdependenz von literarischem Diskurs und Schmerzdiskurs im “Prager Kreis” im Kontext der Moderne. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. 440 pp. Operation Literatur’s lengthy introduction (82 pages) serves several purposes. C…
Einführung in die Literaturpragmatik mit einer Beispielanalyse von Kafkas Roman Der Prozess by Elfie Poulain
Reviewed by: Einführung in die Literaturpragmatik mit einer Beispielanalyse von Kafkas Roman Der Prozess by Elfie Poulain Pamela S. Saur Elfie Poulain, Einführung in die Literaturpragmatik mit einer Beispielanalyse von Kafk as Roman Der Prozess. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 110 pp. Elfie Poulain's book Einführung in die Literaturpragmatik mit einer Beispielanalyse von Kafkas's Roman Der Prozess is aptly titled. The first portion, …
Novel affinities
Novel affinities: composing the family in the German novel, 1795–1830." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 25(3), pp. 384–385
Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg
Reviewed by: Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg: Grenzüberschreitungen bei Barbara Frischmuth ed. by Anna Babka, Peter Clar Pamela S. Saur Anna Babka and Peter Clar, eds., Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg: Grenzüberschreitungen bei Barbara Frischmuth. Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2016. 274 pp. The title of the book Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg comes from a 1996 poem by Barbara Frischmuth that appeared around the time …
Scardanelli by Friederike Mayröcker
Reviewed by: Scardanelli by Friederike Mayröcker Pamela S. Saur Friederike Mayröcker, Scardanelli. Translation by Jonathan Larson. New York: The Song Cave, 2018. 48 pp. Since her debut in the 1950s, the Viennese writer Friederike Mayröcker, born in 1924, has churned out volume after volume of poetry, prose, radio plays, and montages and hybrid forms of her own creation. Her works, which have won many prestigious prizes, have been labeled avant-ga…
Kafkas Poetik by Ulrich Stadler
Reviewed by: Kafkas Poetik by Ulrich Stadler Pamela S. Saur Ulrich Stadler, Kafkas Poetik. Zurich: Edition Voldemeer, De Gruyter, 2019. 337 pp. In the "Vorwort und Vorschau" of Kafkas Poetik, Ulrich Stadler addresses the extraordinary number of published interpretations of Franz Kafka's texts. Among the approaches taken are "biographisch-positivistische, religiöse, philosophische, psychoanalytische, soziologische, marxistische, ethnographische," …
"Ich schreibe, also bin ich"
Reviewed by: "Ich schreibe, also bin ich": Schreibweisen bei Barbara Frischmuth ed. by Anna Babka, Silvana Cimenti, and Peter Clar Pamela S. Saur Anna Babka, Silvana Cimenti, and Peter Clar, eds., "Ich schreibe, also bin ich": Schreibweisen bei Barbara Frischmuth. Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2019. 253 pp. This charming and informative volume is quite similar to the 2016 volume on Barbara Frischmuth, Im Liegen ist der Horizont immer so weit weg, also edit…
Lebensspuren
Reviewed by: Lebensspuren: Autobiografik von Exil, Widerstand, Verfolgung und Lagererfahrung ed. by Konstantin Kaiser et al. Pamela S. Saur Konstantin Kaiser, Irene Nawrocka, Corina Prochazka, and Marianne Windsperger, eds., Lebensspuren: Autobiografik von Exil, Widerstand, Verfolgung und Lagererfahrung. Zwischenwelt 15. Vienna: Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft and Drava Verlag, 2020. 464 pp. The informative, thought-provoking, and often moving collec…
Art (23 works) · Philosophy (21 works) · Literature (17 works) · Art history (16 works) · Literature and Cultural Memory (14 works) · History (12 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (11 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Humanities (8 works) · German (6 works)