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Clifford A. Bernd

Clifford A. Bernd

Professor of German
Dr. phil., University of Heidelberg

Email: cabernd@ucdavis.edu
Office: 402 Sproul Hall
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Research Interests

  • Age of Baroque
  • German Classicism
  • European Realism
  • Hermeneutics
  • Scandinavian Literature

Education

  • BA New York University, 1950
  • MA University of Maryland 1952
  • Dr. phil. Universität Heidelberg, 1958 in German Literature

Academic Positions

  • Princeton University, Assistant Professor 1958-64
  • University of California Davis, Professor since 1964, Chair 1965-76
  • University of Leicester, Visiting Professor of German, 1977
  • President NJ AATG, 1962-64

Major Publications

Books:
Theodor Storm's Craft 0f Fiction. University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages, No. 43. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Second, augmented edition, University 0f North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages, No. 55.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966.   

Theodor Storm-Paul Heyse Briefwechsel, Kritische Edition. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, Vol. 1, 1969; Vol. 2, 1970; Vol. 3, 1974.   

German Poetic Realism. Twayne's World Authors Series. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1981.

Poetic Realism in Scandinavia and Central Europe 1820-1895. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1995.

Theodor Storm: The Dano-German Poet and Writer.  New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 2nd printing 2005.

Edited Collections:

(with H. Nerjes, F. Sammern-Frankenegg, and P. Schaffer), Goethe Proceedings: Essays Commemorating the Goethe Sesquicentennial at the University of California, Davis. Studies in German Literaure, Linguistics, and Culture, No. 12. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1984. 988.

Grillparzers "Der arme Spielmann": New Directions in Criticism. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House,1988.

(with U. Schwab), Elfriede Stutz. Frühe deutsche Novellenkunst. Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, No. 560. Kümmerle Verlag, 1991.

(with R. Pichl), The Other Vienna. The Culture Of Biedermeier Austria. Vienna: Verlag Lehner, 2002.

Selected Chapters and Articles:
"Die gegenwärtige Theodor-Storm Forschung." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 3 (1954): 60-79.   

"Das Verhältnis von erlittenem und überwundenem Vergänglichkeitsgefähl in Storms Erzählhaltung." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 10 (1961): 32-38.

"The Pattern of Reminiscence in Storm's 'In St. ]ürgen.' " Germanic Review 36 (1961): 137-147.

"Das Erinnerungsmotiv in Storms 'In St. Jürgen.' " Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 12 (1963): 27-37.

"Die Leistungen der amerikanischen neueren Germanistik." Wirkendes Wort 15 (1965): 343-350 .   

"Ein unveröffentlichter Briefwechsel zwischen Storm und Ludwig Eichrodt" Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 14 (1965): 12-19.   

"The Formal Qualitiesof Hölderlin's 'Wink für die Darstellung und Sprache.'" Modern Language Review 60 (1965): 400-404.

"Keller's Comment on the Schimmelreiter in Thomas Mann's Essay 'Theodor Sturm: Fact or Fiction.'"  Modern Language Notes 80 (1965): 635.

"Thomas Mann's Meerfahrt mit Don Quijote. " German Quarterly 38 (1965): 652-659.

"The Abdeckerszene in Kleist's 'Michaef Kohlhaas.'" Studia Neophilologia 39 (1967): 270

"Der Lutherbrief in Kleists 'Michael Kohlhaas.'" Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 86 (1967): 627-633.

"On the Two Divergent Parts 0f Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas. " In Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature Presented to Ernst Rose, edited by R. A. Fowkes and V. Sander, 47-56. Eugen HutzIer? Verlag,1967.

"Storms Literaturkritik-Ein Weg zum neuen Verständnis seiner Dichtung." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 17 (1968): 77-81.

(with K.E. Laage), "Ein unbekannter Novellenentwurf Theodor Storms." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 18 (1969): 41-53.

"Theodor Stürm." In Deutsche Dichter des 19. Jahrhunderts, edited by B. von Wiese, 487-506.  Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1969.

"Theodor Storms Lyrik. Die Bedeutung von neuerworbenem Quellenmaterial für deren Neuverständnis." Nordelbingen 38 (1969): 104-111.

"Clarity and Obscurity in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Judenbuche. " In Studies in German Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.  Eine Festschrift for Frederic Coenen, edited by S. Mews, 64-77.  Chapel Hill: N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1970.

"Theodor Stürm und die Romantik." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 21 (1973): 24-37.

"Conscience and Passion in Gryphius's Catharina von Georgien. " in Studies in the German Drama: A Festschrift for Walter Silz, edited by D. H. Crosby and G. C. Schoolfield, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.

"Enthüllen und Verhüllen in Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Judenbuche. " In Festschrift für Friedrich Beissner, edited by U. Gaier und W. Volke, 20-37.  Bebenhausen: Lothar Rotsch Verlag, 1974.

"Enthüllen und Verhüllen in Annettevon Droste-Hülshoffs Judenbuche. " In Untersuchungen zur Literatur als Geschichte. Festschrift für Benno von Wiese, edited by V.J. Gunther, H. Koopmann, P. Pütz; and H.J. Schrimpf, 347-362. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1974.

"Paul Heyse und die Entstehung des Naturalismus." In Acta IV Congresso Latino-Americano de Estudos Germanisticos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1974, edited by F.T. Rosenthal und M. Fleischer, 249-255.

"Wilhelm Jordan." Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974): 605-606.

"Wilhelm Petersen." Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon 3 (1974): 208-210.

"Why Study Foreign Languages?" Spectrum 16 (1977): 3-5.

"The Advent of German Poetic Realism." In Formen realistischer Erzählkunst:. Festschrift für Charlotte Jolles, edited by J. Thunecke, 14-23. Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1979.

"Keller und die Revolution von 1848-1849." In Akten des VI. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses, edited by H. Rupp and H.C. Roloff, 127 -130. Bern: Peter Lang Verlag, 1980.

"The Anticipation of German Poetic Realism in Danish Poetisk Realisme." Modern Language Notes 79 (1982): 573-89.

"Wilhelm Jensen." Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon 6 (1982): 135-137.

"Luther's Impact on German Literature." The Steuben News 57, no. 6 (1984): 7-8.

"Theodor Fontane." In European Writers: The Romantic Century, edited by G. Stade, 1299-1322.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985.

"Poetischer Realismus, Bürgerlicher Realismus, Programmatischer Realismus - die Kontroverse um die Benennung einer Epoche in der Literaturgeschichte." In Akten des VIII. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses, Vol. 9, edited by A. Schöne, 110-115. Tübin :Verlag, 1986.

"Paul Heyse." In The Nobel Prize Winners: Literature, Vol. 1, edited by F.N. Magill, 145-155.  Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1989.

"From Neglect to Controversy: Introducing a Volume 0f Criticism on Der arme Spielmann. In Grillparzer's "Der arme Spielmann": New Directions in Criticism, edited by Clifford Bernd, 1-8.  Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1988.

"Notes on the Editor and Contributors." Ibid., 353-356.

"Postscript." Ibid., 363.

"Select Bibliography." Ibid., 357-361.

"Storm in der amerikanischen Schul- und Universitätsgermanistik." In Theodor Storm und das 19. Jahrhundert, edited by K.E. Laage, 160-168. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1989.

"Storm und der europäische Realismus des 19. Jahrhunderts." In Theodor Storm und das 19. Jahrhundert, edited by K.E. Laage, 18-25. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1989.

"Seit wann gibt es die deutsche Novelle?" In Elfriede Stutz. Frühe deutsche Novellenkunst, edited by C. Bernd and U. Schwab, vii-xi.  Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, No. 560. Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1991.

"The Fame of Theodor Storm in America in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries."  In The Fortunes of German Writers in America: Studies in Literary Reception, edited by W.D. Fife and others, 69-79. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press,

"Fontane's Discovery 0f Britain." Modern Language Review 87 (1992): 112-121.

"The Emergence of Poetic Realism as a Term 0f Literary Criticism in Germany." In Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich, edited by F. Trommler, 229-236. Amsterdam: Rudopi, 1995.

"Phases 0f Grillparzer Scholarship in America 1821-1971." Modern Austrian Literature 28, no. 3/4 (1995): 5-28.

"Die Politik als tragendes Strukturelement in Fontanes 'Effi Briest.'" In Wahrheit und Wort. Festschrift für Rolf Tarot, edited by B. Wehrli and others, 61-71. Zurich: Peter Lang Verlag, 1996.


"The German Lyric in the Age of Poetic Realism." In Life's Golden Tree. Festschrift in Honor of Robert Browning, edited by G. Schoolfield and others, 171-181. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1996.

"The Suppression Of Romanticism in Germany." In Romanticism and Beyond: Festschrift in Honor of John Fetzer, edited by C. Bernd, I. Henderson, and W. McConnell, 197-207. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Co., 1996.

"Vom dänischen Kulturerbe. Um ein neues Verständnis für Storms Lyrik bittend." In Zerstörte Welten.  Festchrift für Ernst Laage, edited by G. Eversberg and others, 33-45.  Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann Verlag, 2000.

"Politik, Religion und Ästhetik in der deutschsprachigen Welt des 19. Jahrhunderts." In "Das Schöne soll sein." Aisthesis in der deutschen Literatur, edited by P. Hesselmann and others. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2001.

"World War I as a Shaping Force in American Germanics." In Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America, edited by D. Benseler and others, 58-68. University of Wisconsin Press,    2001.       
"Die Entstehung von Theodor Storms Dichtung in Zusammenhang mit der dänischen Kultur."  In Akten des. X. Germanistenkongresses Wien, Vol. 12: 153-158. Bem: Peter Lang Verlag, 2002.   

"The Origins Of The Grillparzer Society." In The Other Vienna: The Culture of Biedermeier, edited by R. Pichl und C. Bernd, 333-342. Vienna: Verlag Lehner, 2002.

"Storm's Debt to the Danish Muse and its Disavowal in Criticism." In Kuriosum als Erkenntnis, edited by F. Unglaub, 2002.

"Founding Professional Organizations 1870-1920." In A History of German Studies in the USA, edited by P. Hohendahl and others. New York, N.Y.: The Modern Language Association of America, in 2003.

Teaching Fields/Courses Taught

  • Age of Goethe
  • Poetic Realism
  • 19th- and 20th--Century German poetry, drama and prose.

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