The paper describes linguistically the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect as spoken by the Old Order Amish residing in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

While working on the translation of Heinrich Boll, I became acutely aware of the responsibilities of a translator. I have tried to carry over Boll's content, style, underlying attitudes, and the modern German culture ...

In this paper I wish to show the different types of changes that have been made in American versions of Grimms' Fairy Tales, propose reasons behind them, and evaluate the necessity and effect of these changes.

In this essay on Erec I have traced Hartmann's development of his theme: from the daring deeds of a Celtic hero to the courtly problems of an Arthurian might to the religious ethic propounded in the climax of Hartmann's ...

In translating Heinrich von Ofterdingen, I have felt that my primary obligation was to Novalis' meaning and that the preservation of his style must be secondary. I have tried first to render that meaning with precision and ...

This paper was originally meant to be a study of the development of the fool in German literature. However, in this I could not possibly have succeeded, for my knowledge of the literature is not extensive enough to trace ...

Friedrich Schiller and Bertolt Brecht assign similar aims to the stage as an institution, despite their vastly different renderings of dramatic literature. The main concern of both playwrights is to demonstrate, to ...

Originally I had intended to translate this story somewhat literally without too much emphasis on giving the work a readable English style. Perhaps I realized the importance of style too late. Another serious problem ...