Background
Krispyn, Egbert was born on June 14, 1930 in Haarlem, Holland. Came to United States, 1961, naturalized, 1970. Son of Peter Johan and Henriette (Lams) Krispyn.
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In contrast to the sometimes overly generous treatment of German writers forced into exile by Hitler’s fascist regime, Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile applies the strict aesthetic and historical standards of literary criticism, putting aside any special pleading for their anti-Nazi political views. This critical approach leads to two important conclusions: that the emigrant writers’ sacrifices and opposition to Hitler’s Germany, however courageous, were ultimately futile and that the literature they produced was largely an aesthetic failure, due in part to the very nature of the exile experience. Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile includes a brief description of literary life in the Third Reich, but then concentrates on the United States as the scene of the exile’s greatest activity after the outbreak of World War II. Krispyn concludes that the exiles’ failure to achieve their political and artistic aims constitutes an important political case history within the larger history of Nazi Germany. Artistic and intellectual activities seem powerless to oppose terror, and the turn of the creative mind to political ends seemingly undermines the aesthetic force of creation.
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Krispyn, Egbert was born on June 14, 1930 in Haarlem, Holland. Came to United States, 1961, naturalized, 1970. Son of Peter Johan and Henriette (Lams) Krispyn.
Bachelor, University Melbourne, Australia, 1957. Master of Arts, University Melbourne, Australia, 1958. Postgraduate, University Tübingen, Federal Republic Germany, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1963.
Commercial employee International Trading Company, Europe, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, 1947-1951. Lecturer University Pennsylvania, 1961-1963, assistant professor, 1964-1966, associate professor, 1966-1968. Assistant professor University Florida, Gainesville, 1963-1964, professor, chairman German and Russian department, 1968-1972.
Professor University Georgia, Athens, 1972-1987, head department comparative literature, since 1987.
( In contrast to the sometimes overly generous treatment ...)
Member Modern Language Association, International Association for Germanic Studies, Society German Renaissance and Baroque Literature, Modern Humanities Research Association, Southern Comparative Literature Association, American Literature Translators Association.