Colin Riordan - Publications#

Books

Ed., Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture: Festschrift in Honour of Rhys W. Williams, (Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 2010), 283 pp [with Brigid Haines and Stephen Parker]

ed., Jurek Becker (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1998) 154 pp

ed., Green Thought in German Culture. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1997) 312 pp

ed., German Writers and the Cold War, 1945-61 (MUP: Manchester, 1992) [with Rhys W. Williams and Stephen Parker]

ed., Peter Schneider (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1995) 136 pp

ed., Peter Schneider, Vati (MUP: Manchester, 1993)

Studium Wirtschaftsdeutsch (Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1990; Diesterweg: Frankfurt am Main, 1991), 144 pp. [with Gerlinde Butzphal]

The Ethics of Narration. Uwe Johnson's Novels from 'Ingrid Babendererde' to 'Jahrestage' (MHRA: London, 1989), 245 pp.

Articles

‘Authenticity and violence in Nicolas Born’s Die Fälschung’, in Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture: Festschrift in Honour of Rhys W. Williams, ed. Brigid Haines, Stephen Parker, Colin Riordan (Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 2010), 143-52.

‘Ein sicheres Versteck. Uwe Johnson und England’ in Deutsch-deutsches Literaturexil. Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller aus der DDR in der Bundesrepublik, ed. Walter Schmitz and Jörg Bernig (Thelem: Dresden, 2009), 157-72.

‘German Literature, Nature and Modernity before 1914’, in Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies. Translatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer (Rodopi: Amsterdam, New York, NY, 2006) 313-30 '"Die Unentbehrlichkeit der Landschaft". Natur und Repräsentation in Johnsons Jahrestagen"', Johnson-Jahrbuch 12, 2005, 67-78.

‘Hermann Hesse and the Ecological Imagination’, in Ingo Cornils and Osman Durrani, eds., Hermann Hesse Today/Hermann Hesse Heute. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2005, pp. 95-105.

‘Ecocentrism in Sebald’s After Nature’, in W.G. Sebald - A Critical Companion, ed. J J Long and Anne Whitehead (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2004), 45-57

‘Depictions of the state in works of the inner emigration’, in Flight of Fantasy. New perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature, 1933–1945, ed. Neil H. Donahue and Doris Kirchner (Berghahn Books: New York, Oxford, 2003), 152-67

‘”Der Roman ist für einen Nachdruck in der Demokratischen Republik nicht zu empfehlen”: Uwe Johnson und die Zensur in Ost und West’, in Zensur im modernen deutschen Kulturraum, ed. Beate Müller (Max Niemeyer Verlag: Tübingen, 2003), 149-162

‘The Green Alternative in Germany 1900-1930’, in Counter-Cultures in Germany and Central Europe. From Sturm und Drang to Baader-Meinhof, ed. Steve Giles and Maike Oergel (Peter Lang:Bern, 2003), 155-170 ‘Environment, landscape and culture in Germany’, in Contemporary German Cultural Studies, ed. Alison Phipps (Arnold: London, 2002), 65-81

'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832', in Joy A. Palmer, ed., Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (London, New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 63-69

'German-Jewish Relations in the Works of Peter Schneider', in Pól O'Dochartaigh, ed. Jews in German Literature since 1945: German-Jewish Literature? (Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 625-36

'"Den Amis in Hollywood ein für allemal das Lebenslichtlein ausblasen!" Aspects of text and film in the late 1990s', in Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, Julian Preece, eds., German Language Literature Today: International and Popular? (Bern: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 269-80

'Threshold and Transgression in the Works of Patrick Süskind and Martin Walser', in Rüdiger Görner and Suzanne Kirkbright, eds., Nachdenken über Grenzen (Munich: iudicium,1999), pp. 175-90

'"Der Weg in die Zukunft": Uwe Timm and the Problem of Political Ecology', in David Basker, ed., Uwe Timm (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999), pp. 66-81

'"Eine Deklaration gegen Gewalt und Tod". Gespräch mit Uwe Timm', in David Basker, ed., Uwe Timm (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999), pp. 26-37

'"Ich bezweifele, ob ich je DDR-Schriftsteller gewesen bin". Gespräch mit Jurek Becker', in Colin Riordan, ed., Jurek Becker (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1998), pp. 12-23 [with Paul O'Doherty]

'Jurek Becker: Outline Biography', in Colin Riordan, ed., Jurek Becker (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1998), pp. 7-11

'Johnsons Werk als Autobiographie. Zu: Wolfgang Paulsen, Innenansichten: Uwe Johnsons Romanwelt', Johnson-Jahrbuch, 5 (1998), pp. 241-48

'Green ideas in Germany: A historical survey', in Colin Riordan, ed., Green Thought in German Culture. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1997), pp. 3-41.

'The sins of the children: Peter Schneider, Allan Massie and the legacy of Auschwitz', Journal of European Studies, 27, 1997, pp. 161-80.

'"Bitte, melden Sie sich, Mrs. Cresspahl." Zu: Dimension2. Contemporary German-Language Literature. Band 1, Heft 2, Mai 1994. Focus: Uwe Johnson Archives', Johnson-Jahrbuch, 3, 1996, pp. 278-83.

'"Nachmittage in der Fremde." Dislokation in Uwe Johnsons Jahrestage', in Reisen im Diskurs: Modelle der literarischen Fremderfahrung von den Pilgerberichten bis zur Postmoderne, edited by Anne Fuchs and Theo Harden (Universitätsverlag C. Winter: Heidelberg, 1995), pp. 213-27.

'Uwe Johnson', in Reference Guide to World Literature, edited by Lesley Henderson, 2nd edition, 2 vols (St. James Press: New York, London, 1995), pp. 636-37.

'From Hallstein to Sinatra: Cultural Reflections of Political Relations between the Two Germanies, 1965-85', Modern Language Review, 90/3 (1995), pp. 676-87.

'"Die Lustmaschine": Science, Myth and Progress in Peter Schneider's Paarungen', in Peter Schneider, edited by Colin Riordan (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1995), pp. 86-105.

'Gespräch mit Peter Schneider', in Peter Schneider, edited by Colin Riordan (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1995), pp. 24-35 [with Rhys W. Williams].

'Peter Schneider: A Biographical Sketch', in Peter Schneider, edited by Colin Riordan (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1995), pp. 13-23.

'". . . was ich im Gedächtnis ertrage". Die Metaphorik der Jahrestage', Johnson-Jahrbuch, 2 (1995), pp. 155-75. 'Introduction', in Peter Schneider, 'Vati' (MUP: Manchester, 1993), pp. 1-31.

'Reifeprüfung 1961: Uwe Johnson and the Cold War', in German Writers and the Cold War, 1945-61, edited by Rhys W. Williams, Stephen Parker and Colin Riordan (MUP: Manchester, 1992), pp. 203-20.

'Introduction', in German Writers and the Cold War, 1945-61, edited by Rhys W. Williams, Stephen Parker and Colin Riordan (MUP: Manchester, 1992), pp. 1-6 [with Rhys W. Williams].

'Die Fähigkeit zu trauern. Die "Toten" und die Vergangenheit in Uwe Johnsons Jahrestage', in: Wenigstens in Kenntnis leben. Notate zum Werke Uwe Johnsons, edited by Carsten Gansel (federchen Verlag: Neubrandenburg, 1991), pp. 62-76.

'"Ein sicheres Versteck": Uwe Johnson and England', in Common Currency? Aspects of Anglo-German Literary Relations since 1945, edited by John L. Flood (Hans-Dieter Verlag: Stuttgart, 1991), pp. 87-100.

'"Studium Wirtschaftsdeutsch": Die Entwicklung eines Lehrbuches', in Applied German Studies, 3 (1991), 23-26 [with Gerlinde Butzphal].

'Future Plans', in German and Business Studies, 1 (1988), 70-72.