Alan Keele

Bibliography of Alan Frank Keele : October, 1999

1. Scholarly Books (author, co-author, editor):
2. 1. Paul Schallück and the Postwar German Don Quixote: A Case History Prolegomenon to the Literature of the Federal Republic, Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics #5, Bern, Lang, 1976, i-vii, 134 pp. (Revision of 1971 Princeton dissertation written under the supervision of Professor Theodore Ziolkowski.)
   2. The Apocalyptic Vision: A Thematic Exploration of Postwar German Literature, Washington, studia humanitatis, 1983, i-xi, 135 pp.
   3. The Price- The True Story of a Mormon Who Defied Hitler, Salt Lake City, Bookcraft, 1984, 126 pp., with Karl-Heinz Schnibbe and Douglas F. Tobler.
   4. Understanding Günter Grass, Columbia (SC), University of South Carolina Press, 1988, 256 pp.
   5. Jugendliche gegen Hitler: Die Helmuth Hübener Gruppe in Hamburg 1941/42, Berg am Starnberger See, Verlagsgemeinschaft Berg, 1991, 247 pp., with Blair Holmes and Karl Heinz Schnibbe.
   6. When Truth Was Treason: German Teenagers against Hitler, Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 1995, xxix, 425 pp., with Blair Holmes, and with a foreword by Klaus J. Hansen.
3. Literary Translations (Books):
4. 1. Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, Columbia (SC), Camden House, 1989, xix + 56 pp., with Leslie Norris.
   2. Walter Kempowski, Dog Days, Columbia (SC), Camden House, 1991, 337 pp., with Norma Davis and Garold Davis.
   3. Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, Columbia (SC), Camden House, 1993, i-x + 66 pp., with Leslie Norris.
5. Literary Translations (Separate Poems):
6. 1. Rainer Marie Rilke, Four Sonnets to Orpheus, A Fine Madness, v. 5, no. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 16-23., with Leslie Norris.
   2. Rainer Marie Rilke, Eight Sonnets to Orpheus, Stanford Humanities Review, v. 1, no. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 139-143., with Leslie Norris.
   3. Rainer Marie Rilke, Four Sonnets to Orpheus, Quarterly West, no. 28, Spring 1989, pp. 93-96., with Leslie Norris.
7. Text Books (authored and edited):
8. 1. Learn German, Provo, Interlinguistica, 1978, i-iv, 108 pp., with Marvin H. Folsom.
   2. Alan F. Keele and Marvin H. Folsom, eds. Learn Spanish by Peter P. Ashworth and Carmen Vigo, Provo, Interlinguistica, 1980, i-v, 127 pp.
   3. Alan F. Keele and Marvin H. Folsom, eds. Learn Greek by C. Wilfred Griggs and Randall Stewart, Provo, Interlinguistica, 1981, i-vi, 118 pp. (Also: revised and augmented second edition with Monte F. Shelley, 1984, i-vi, 135 pp.).
   4. Alan F. Keele and Marvin H. Folsom, eds. Learn Japanese by Masakazu Watabe, Provo, Interlinguistica, 1984.
   5. A German-English, English-German Glossary for Missionaries, Provo, Interlinguistica, 1982, i-iv, 255 & 287 pp. (Also: revised second edition, 1983.), with Marvin H. Folsom.
   6. German Core Vocabulary in Context, A Pedagogical Dictionary for Beginning Students of German, Provo, Interlinguistica, 1983, i-vii, 76 & 88 pp., with Marvin H. Folsom.
9. Scholarly Articles:
10. 1. "Ethics in Embryo: Abortion and the Problem of Morality in Postwar German Literature," Germanic Review, May 1976 (3/51st year), pp. 229-241.
    2. "The Führer's New Clothes: Helmuth Hübener and the Mormons in the III. Reich" Sunstone, November-December 1980, pp. 20-29., with Douglas F. Tobler.
    3. "Trailing Clouds of Glory? Artistic Treatments (and Mistreatments) of the Pre-Existence," Sunstone, July-August 1981, pp. 47-51.
    4. ". . . Through a (Dark) Glass Clearly: Magic Spectacles and the Motif of the Mimetic Mantic in Postwar German Literature," Germanic Review, Spring, 1982 (2/57th year), pp. 49-59.
    5. "Childhood Toys, Sporting Games, and the Seeds of War: A View from Postwar German Literature," Soundings, Summer 1982 (2/65th year), pp. 146-167.
    6. "Günter Grass," Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 75: Contemporary German Fiction Writers, Second Series, Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1988, pp. 69-91.
    7. "Walter Kempowski: Tinker, Tailor, Chronicler...Spy? A Note on the Margins of Fact and Fiction," Themes and Structures. Studies in German Literature from Goethe to the Present, Columbia: Camden House, 1997, ed. Alexander Stephan, pp. 269-280.
    8. "Günter Grass," Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, 1999...
11. Miscellaneous Essays and Brief Encyclopedia Entries:
12. 1. "Die Atom-Tiger von Manhatten," Dokumente, Zeitschrift für Übernationale Zusammenarbeit, Cologne, December 1974 (4/30th year), pp. 12-16.
    2. "Who's Afraid of Hogan's Heroes," Dokumente, Zeitschrift für Übernationale Zusammenarbeit, Cologne, September 1975 (3/31st year), pp. 219-221.
    3. "Ruminations on a Sacred Cow: A Germanist's View of Athletics at the University," The Seventh East Press (Provo, Utah), December 1, 1981 (1/7th year), pp. 1-4.
    4. [Günter Grass's] "Headbirths Or The Germans Are Dying Out," Masterplots II, World Fiction Series, Pasedena: Salem Press, 1988, pp. 578-582.
    5. [Günter Grass's] "The Rat," Masterplots II, World Fiction Series, Pasedena: Salem Press, 1988, pp. 1252-1256.
    6. "Walter Kempowski," World Authors 1980-1985, New York: H.W. Wilson, 1991, pp. 478-481 (includes an essay on Kempowski and a short autobiographical sketch by the author translated from the original German by A. F. Keele).
    7. "Paul Schallück," Literatur Lexikon, ed. Walter Killy, Munich: Bertelsmann, 1991, v. 10, p. 158.
    8. "Walter Kempowski," Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990, New York and London: 1998, v. 1, p. 551-552.
13. Book Reviews:
14. 1. Review of Fontane, Theodore, Jenny Treibel, translated by Ulf Zimmermann, The Modern Language Journal, December 1977 (8/61st year), p. 435.
    2. Review of Kurz, Paul Konrad, On Modern German Literature IV, translated by Mary Frances McCarthy, The Modern Language Journal, January-February 1978 (1-2/62nd year), p. 77.
    3. Review of Podhoretz, Norman, Why We Were in Vietnam, Sunstone Review (Salt Lake City, Utah) 4, 1983, pp. 75-76.
    4. Review of Kamenetsky, Christa, Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany, Modern Language Notes, April 1985 (3/100th year), pp. 683-685.
    5. Review of Willett, John, Brecht in Context, Journal of the History of European Ideas, 1987.
    6. Review of Parkes, K. Stuart, Writers and Politics in West Germany, Journal of the History of European Ideas, 1988, pp. 679-680.
    7. Review of Rollfinke, Dieter and Jacqueline, The Call of Human Nature: The Role of Scatology in Modern German Literature, German Studies Review, v. X, no. 2, May, 1987, pp. 337-338.
    8. Review of Hoidal, Oddvar K, Quisling: A Study in Treason, Scandinavian Studies, v. 65, no. 1, Winter 1993, pp. 122-123.
15. Selected papers read:
16. 1. "Hermann Hesse Was Opposed to the Use of Drugs," invited plenary presentation to the Utah Federation of the Students of German, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1971.
    2. "The Commitment to Political Non-Violence in Postwar German Literature," invited presentation to the National Federation of Students of German, Muncie, Indiana, 1972.
    3. "Der geistige Widerstand: Some Literary Manifestations of the German Resistance Movement," Symposium on Hitler Germany, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 1974.
    4. "Ineffability and the Concept of 'Ursprache' in Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Denver, Colorado, 1975.
    5. "Grass contra Böll: Reform vs. Revolution in Postwar German Literature," Utah Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Provo, Utah, 1976.
    6. "Ethics in Embryo: Abortion and the Problem of Morality in Postwar German Literature," Utah Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Ogden, Utah, 1976.
    7. "Intimations of the Pre-Existence: The Theme of Pre-Mortal Existence in Mormon and Non-Mormon Art Forms," P. A. Christensen Memorial Lecture, College of Humanities, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 1976.
    8. "The Terrible Toys: A View from German Literature at the Process of Play-Time Psychological Pre-Conditioning for Dictatorship, War, and Holocaust," Honors Program Flea Market Lecture, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 1980.
    9. "Dichtung und Wahrheit: Walter Kempowski as an Historian," German Studies Association, Madison, Wisconsin, 1983.
    10. "Saints or Sinners: German Mormons under Hitler," 43 page paper distributed and discussed at A Half-Century after Barmen: International Conference on Churches and Totalitarianism, Seattle, Washington, 1984., with Douglas F. Tobler.
    11. "Six Authors in Search of a Character: Helmuth Hübener as a Postwar German Literary Model," at Shire West Theatre in connection with David Anderson's play, "Hübener Against the Reich," sponsored by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, 1984.
    12. "A Woman's Weapons: Repartee, Retort, and Riposte in the Humorous Structure of Der Rosenkavalier," paper read at the Seventh International Conference on Humor, Laie, Hawaii, April 19, 1989.
    13. "Headbirths: A Discourse on the Travails and Ultimate Joys of Intellectual Parenthood, on Reading, Thinking, Teaching, and Writing as a Process of Discovery and of Self-Discovery," BYU Forum, May 23, 1989.
    14. "The Return of Oskar Matzerath: Günter Grass's Views of the Federal Republic after 40 Years," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, October 21, 1989.
    15. "Using a Concordance in Interpreting Günter Grass: The Case of the Niobe Figure in Die Blechtrommel and the Frigate Figure in 'Noch zehn Minuten bis Buffalo,'" ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages) and AATG (American Association of the Teachers of German) annual meeting, Boston, November 17, 1989.
    16. "Racism and Sexism in Die Zauberflöte: Fatal Flaw or Exegetical Beacon?" Plenary address at BYU German Studies Conference, November 30, 1995.
    17. "The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God: a Mandate for Eternal Education," BYU Devotional, June 4, 1996.
    18. "Reconquering the Angelic Perspective: On the Healing Power of Metaphysics in a Cinematic Diptych by Wim Wenders and Peter Handke," paper delivered on July 5, 1999 at a conference in Berlin, Germany on: The New Europe at the Crossroads (III), sponsored by Loyola College in Maryland.
17. Concordances:
18. 1. Wortkonkordanz zur "Deutschen Chronik" von Walter Kempowski. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Germany, 1994, equivalent of 10 volumes with 9,180 pages on 34 microfiches. (Also in electronic "Word-Cruncher" format.)
    2. Wortindex zur "Blechtrommel" von Günter Grass, Frankfurt am Main, Luchterhand, 1990, xi + 380 pp., with Randall L. Jones and Franz Josef Görtz.
19. Miscellaneous:
20. 1. "Imago dei: Man in the Image of God," (abbreviated version of) translation of Benz, Ernst, imago dei, in: Truman G. Madsen, ed., Reflections on Mormonism, Salt Lake City, Bookcraft, 1978, pp. 20l-221 and (in Dutch) in Horizon, Tijdschrift over de mormoonse gemeenschap, January 1982, pp. 44-50.