Rilke & Nationalsozialismus

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

He approaches literature from a historical perspective,
studying history's influence
on literary works as well as the influence of an audience on
the meaning of a work.
This approach was evident in the 1970 publication of an
article on why young
Americans during the 1960s elevated German author Herman
Hesse to the status of
cult hero. Schwarz argued that Americans discovered aspects
of Hesse's work that
had gone unnoticed by German scholars and the German reading
public. 


http://wupa.wustl.edu/asmbly/bio/Schwarz