Sandy Strughaar

Sandy Straubhaar, Germanic Studies Department, University of Texas at Austin

Science Fiction, Savage Misogyny and the American Dream | Orson Scott Card, A Planet Called Treason

Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 1

We Mormons put a lot of stock in the Local Boy Makes Good syndrome: we’re proud of our Osmonds, our Marriotts, our Jack Andersons, and we’re anxious to let people out there know that we…

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Saving the Germans from Themselves? | Alan Keele, In Search of the Supernal: Pre-Existence, Eternal Marriage, and Apotheosis in German Literary, Operatic and Cinematic Texts

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2

This engaging labor-of-love book is a pleasure to read even if one does not always agree with its arguments. In it, BYU German professor Alan Keele mines German literature and drama for what he calls…

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