Abstract

Originally presented in German as the author's doctoral thesis (Universitat Freiburg im Breisgau, 1984), published by de Gruyter Verlag in 1986; the English text is based on the original English typescript (which was translated into German for thesis presentation). King, an American who lived for 16 years outside the United States in protest of the Vietnam War, integrates the disciplines of psychology, literature, and philosophy and draws on his experience of exile to analyze the existential subjectivity behind a writer's work. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.