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Article: Orientierungsversuche im Zeitalter der Angst: Gertrud von le Forts Weg zur Mystik.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2005
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Orientierungsversuche im Zeitalter der Angst: Gertrud von le Forts Weg zur Mystik. By ROSWITHA GOSLICH. (Germanistische Texte and Studien, 71) Hildesheim: Olms. 2003. 246 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN 3-487-11897-1.
Unlike earlier studies of the Catholic author Gertrud von le Fort (1876-1972), which have often addressed religious questions at the expense of literary analysis, Roswitha Goslich's study is the most interdisciplinary and literary to date. Although le Fort's is today a half-forgotten name, Goslich reminds us that she enjoyed recognition during her lifetime well beyond her denominational readership: le Fort was honoured with a nomination by Hermann Hesse for the ...