(Nationalist Literature) 
    
                                                                                
Date          Thu, 12 May 1994 07 27 47 -0500                                   
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From:         H-GERMAN MODERATOR Dan Rogers <drogers@jaguar1.usouthal.edu>      
Subject:      Re: Nationalist Literature                                        
                                                                                
Submitted by:   Walter Felscher <iikfe01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>         
                                                                                
                                                                                
Fichte's talks were addressed to the educated. Even 100 years later his         
Reden were widely reprinted - but to which extend they were actually read       
seems doubtable.                                                                
                                                                                
Of larger influence then seems to me Ernst Moritz Arndt - through his poems     
as well as through his prose. [Odd aside: Arndt was cultivated in the DDR       
in its search for an own 'national' identity.]                                  
                                                                                
Of course, both Fichte and Arndt cannot be understood without first con-        
sidering Napoleon.                                                              
                                                                                
W.F.                                                                            
    
    
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