Alexander Sorenson is a lecturer in German and comparative literature at Binghamton University. His teaching and research concern European literature, philosophy, art, and culture from 1800–1950, and focus in particular on the topic of nature and environmental consciousness. He has published in such venues as The German Quarterly, Literature & Theology, and German Life and Letters. His book, The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice and Submergence in German Realism, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press in 2024.
Alexander Sorenson
Articles
Lines and Circles: On Marlen Haushofer’s “The Wall” and Esther Kinsky’s “Grove”
Alexander Sorenson reviews two recently translated German novels, Marlen Haushofer’s “The Wall” and Esther Kinsky’s “Grove: A Field Novel.”
“Like Fences in a Flat Land”: On Recent Returns to German Expressionist Lyric
Alexander Sorenson reviews new translations of the expressionist poetry of Georg Trakl and Georg Heym.
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