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<strong><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#666666">“Pantheon Books and Illustrated German Tales”</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#666666"><a href="https://arth.sas.upenn.edu/people/vance-byrd">Vance Byrd</a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#666666"><br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#666666">Presidential Associate Professor of German</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#666666">University of Pennsylvania</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#555555">The United States has been an important market for illustrated German literature in translation since the late eighteenth century, and these editions
helped readers forge and maintain cultural and linguistic bonds to the broader German diasporic community. In this presentation, I will investigate what it meant for a prominent publisher of European literature to reach American readers in the final years
of World War II. I will focus on the publication history and visual aesthetics of Helen and Kurt Wolff’s Pantheon Books, Inc., editions of Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1944) and Stifter’s Rock Crystal (1945), to set into relief how these illustrated nineteenth-century
German children’s tales were part of a political market strategy presenting universal moral values and innocence at a moment when the world did not look that way anymore. I will ask what it meant to be determined publishers in the midst of despair and how
their complicated decisions during this pivotal period smoothed the way for German literature in the post-World War II American market.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#555555">Vance Byrd</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#555555">Presidential Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#555555">Secondary Appointment, History of Art</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#555555">University of Pennsylvania</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#C00000;background:white">The Ohio State University - College of Arts and Sciences</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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