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Hart Lothar Wegner (1931- )
Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 1990
Born in the Silesia region
of Poland, educated in Europe and at the University of Utah and Harvard in the
United States, Wegner's fiction registers his allegiance to two continents.
His American works include numerous pieces of fiction in literary journals and
book reviews in scholarly journals. Wegner is a professor of German, Comparative
Literature, and Film Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has
also served as Chair of its Film Department. In the late 1960s, he founded the
free Thursday-night
International Film Series at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received
the Pushcart Prize for 1984/85
and the Charles Vanda Prize for Excellence in the Arts at UNLV in 1989. He was
honored with the University of Nevada Regents' Award for Creative Activities
in 1994. He also received the William Morris Award for Excellence in Teaching.
He serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Religion & Film,
which has an online biography
about him.
Bibliography for Hart L. Wegner
Short Stories:
"Cockshut Light" in Weber Studies (Fall 1996), Vol. 13, no. 3.
Griffin, Shaun T., ed. The River Underground: An Anthology of Nevada Fiction. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press, 2001. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 571 .N3 R58 2001]
Houses of Ivory: Stories. New York: Soho, 1988. (Library of Congress Talking Book Program edition). [Available: Getchell Library: PS 3573 .E367 H6 1988]
Off Paradise: Stories from Las Vegas. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press, 2001. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 3573 .E367 O38 2001]
Nonfiction:
"Adventurers and Cosmonauts: Durrenmatt's parody of Brecht?" in Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. (1971) Vol. 25, pp. 10-15. [Available: Getchell Library: PB1 .R6 1971]
"A Chronicle of Soil, Seasons and Weather: Jean Renoir's The Southerner." in The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South. (1981) Vol. 19, no. 3-4, pp. 58-69.[Available: Getchell Library: AS30 .S658 1981]
"Dear Hart, Dear Heorot: John Gardner as Editor." in Thor's Hammer: Essays on John Gardner. Henderson, Jeff and Leonard Butts, eds. Conway, Ark.: Univ. of Central Arkansas Press, 1985, pp. 75-88. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PN 3557 .A712 Z89 1985; and at Western NV Comm. College-Carson City: PS 3557 .A712 Z89 1985]
"The Depiction of Women in American Films: Creating a Balance." in Social Studies Review. (Spring 1980) Vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 45-47, 49.
Die dichterischen Bilder im Fruhwerk Brechts. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1970. (dissertation)
Feature Films in Second Language Instruction." Arlington, VA: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1977. (CAL Series on Languages and Linguistics, #47) [Available: Getchell Library, Reference: ERIC microfiche ED136585]
"Film in Comparative Literature: Plowing with Horse and Ox?" in Proceedings of the 7th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association : Comparative Literature Today: Theory and Practice. 1979, pp. 415-417. [Available: Getchell Library: PN 863 .I5 7th 1973 vol. 2]
"From Expressionism to Film Noir: Otto Preminger's Where the Sidewalk Ends." in Journal of Popular Film and Television. (Summer 1983) Vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 56-65.
"Glory in the Seasons: The Magical Vision of Landscape." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (1991) Vol. 37, pp. 1-8. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1991]
"The Great God Pan by the Waters of Life: Images and Symbols in Renoir's Films." in Purdue University Seventh Annual Conference on Film. West Lafayete, IN: Purdue Univ., Dept. of English, 1983, pp. 153-158.
"In Search of Goethe's Faust from Without: A Dramatic Approach." in Approaches to Teaching Goethe's Faust. (Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature, #14) New York: Modern Language Assn. of Amer., 1987. pp. 87-90. [Available: Getchell Library: PT 1930 .A6 1987]
"The Invisible Wound and the Transplanted Flower: The Making of Autobiographical Literature." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (2000) Vol. 46, pp. 1-9. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 2000]
Liebmann, Robert. Der Blaue Engel. (Screenplay) New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. (notes, vocabulary and exercises by Hart Wegner) [Available: Getchell Library: PF 3117 .L57 1982]
"Literary Influences on the Earliest Expressionist Film: Der Student von Prag." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (Aug. 1980) Vol. 26, pp. 1-6. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1980]
"Melodrama as Tragic Rondo: Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind." in Literature/Film Quarterly. (1982) Vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 155-161.
"Of Carbon Files, Hieroglyphics, and Body Texts: A Fond Farewell to the Word." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (2001) Vol. 47, pp. 1-27. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 2001]
"Out of the Margin, into the Stream -- The Inclusion of Women, Minorities, Gays, and Lesbians in the Curriculum." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (1992) Vol. 38, pp. 26-37. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1992]
"Pius Aeneas and Toto, il buono: The Founding Myth of the Divine City." in Pacific Coast Philology. (1977) Vol. 12, pp. 64-71. and in Vittorio de Sica: Contemporary Perspectives. Toronto, ON: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2000, pp. 189-197. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PN 1998.3 .D42 V58 2000]
"Portrait Etched in Agony: The Image of the Writer on the Screen." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (1986) Vol. 31, pp. 1-9. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1986]
"Roses in December: The Uses of History." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (1986) Vol. 44, pp. 24-33. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1986]
"Scientific Reproduction and the Terrain of Terror: Metaphysical Prisons from Giambattista Piranesi to Franz Kafka." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (2002/03) Vol. 36, pp. 1-8. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1990; and ERIC microfiche ED 329990]
"A Second Pair of Eyes: The Editor as Teacher." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (2002/03) Vol. 49, pp. 12-20. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 2002/03]
Teaching With Film. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1977. [Available: Getchell Library, Reference: ERIC microfiche ED146910]
"The Third Testament: Literature in Life." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (1988) Vol. 34, pp. 1-10. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1988]
"The Thousand Faces of the Romantic Film Hero." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (1982) Vol. 28, pp. 79-94. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1982]
"The Travel Writer as Missionary in Reverse: Bruce Chatwin's Songlines." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (1994-95) Vol. 40, pp. 77-81. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1994-95]
"The Use of Subtitled Films with a Frame Reduction Plate in Foreign Language Teaching." in NALLD Journal: Newsletter of the Nat. Assoc. of Language Laboratory Directors. (Feb. 1977) Vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 29-35. [Available: Getchell Library: PB36 .N35 1977]
Wir Wunderkinder eine Filmkomodie uber Deutschland und die Deutschen [review] in The Modern Language Journal. (Mar. 1971), Vol. 55, no. 3, p. 198. [Available: Getchell Library: PB1 .M47 1971 and online via the Library web site]
"'The Work of the Devil': Anti-Faustian Tendencies in Twentieth Century Drama and Film." in West Virginia University Philological Papers. (1981) Vol. 427, pp. 8-14. [Available: Getchell Library: P 25 W4 1981]
Biographical Sources & Critical Response:
Blodgett, Betty. "Framing the Scene." in UNLV Magazine (Spring 2002) Vol. 10, no. 1.
Coombs, Ronald L. Houses of Ivory [review] in Library Journal. (May 15, 1988) Vol. 113, no. 9, p. 94. [Available: Getchell Library: Z 671 .L7 1988]
Directory of American Scholars. Vol. 3: Foreign Languages, Linguistics & Philology. 6th-8th eds. New York: Bowker, 1974, 1978, 1982. [Available: Getchell Library: LA 2311 D576]
John Gardner Papers [Available: Univ. of Rochester River Campus Libraries, Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation] ~ 19-page transcript of "The Stoning of Stanislava" short story, in Box 3, #24.
Kuryluk, Ewa. Houses of Ivory [review] in New York Times (May 29, 1988), Sec. VII, p. 23, col. 3. [Available: Getchell Library: Microfilm N5]
McAleer, Donna. "The Creative Risk." in UNLV Magazine (Fall 1994), Vol. 3, no. 1.
Off Paradise [review] in Las Vegas Mercury. (June 1, 2001)
Off Paradise [review] in New York Review of Books. (April 25, 2002) Vol. 49, no. 7, p. 33. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref. Dept. Microfiche S50]
Off Paradise [review] in Publishers Weekly. (Sept. 3, 2001) Vol. 248, no. 36, p. 61. [Available: Getchell Library: Z 1219 .P98 2001 and online via the Library web site]
Off Paradise [review] in Reno News & Review. (Aug. 16, 2001)
Off Paradise: Stories. University of Nevada Press. Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076. 1-877-682-6657
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