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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: The Reception of a German Best-Seller in the USA
Contributor:
Rectanus, Mark W.
imprint:
American Association of Teachers of German, 1986
Published in:
The German Quarterly, 59 (1986) 2, Seite 252-269
Language:
English
ISSN:
0016-8831;
1756-1183
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p> Relatively little attention has been focused on the reception of Böll's work in the United States. This reception has continued in rather diverse formats, as indicated by the production of a television film adaptation, entitled "The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck," starring Marlo Thomas and Kris Kristofferson. The reception of Katharina Blum in the USA exemplifies the complexity of literary reception in a cross-cultural context as well as a complex network of functional and structural relationships in the literary marketplace. An analysis of: 1) the marketing and presentation of Katharina Blum by McGraw-Hill, 2) book reviews in the major national print media, 3) a magazine condensation in Redbook magazine and 4) reviews of movie and television adaptations will provide some indices in an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of literary communication in a cross-cultural context. </p>