Divay, Gaby
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Gaby Divay
- Mailing Address:
- Archives & Special Collections, 332E Dafoe Library
- University of Manitoba
- Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
- Work Phone: 204-474-6483
- Fax: 204-474-7913
- E-mail: divay@cc.umanitoba.ca
- Institution: University of Manitoba
- Title: German Studies Bibliographer [& Rare Book Librarian]
- Geographical Areas: Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland]
- Subjects: Humanities
- Tasks: Collection Development, Cataloguing, Reference
- Languages used: French, German, Italian
- Education:
- Abitur, Gymnasium Curschmannstrasse, Hamburg
- BA, Laval University, Quebec City - French & Linguistics
- MA, Laval University, Quebec City - French Philology
- MLS, McGill University, Montreal
- Ph.D, Laval University, Quebec City - French Renaissance Literature (Montaigne)
- MA, University of Manitoba - German Literature
- Memberships:
- ACRL - WESS (Western European Studies Section)
- Research:
- FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL (Else von Freytag-Loringhoven) ; European German cultural context, ca. 1900 ; European intellectual history at all times; Literary reception history through translations, ca. 1900 ; German Publishers, 15th cent. & ca. 1900 ; Art & Architecture in Dachau, Munich and Berlin, ca. 1900 ; literary groups surrounding the poet Stefan George ; dada in New York (FrL's relations with Man Ray & Marcel Duchamp), Berlin, Paris, ca. 1920) ; Autobiography, especially as invented or beautified in FPG's Canadian novels ; Nietzche, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Montaigne [Francis Bacon, as Eng. Tr. of the Essays] ; Neo-Kantianism & Hume ; French Renaissance ; German-American cross-currents with Germany, 1880-1920 & beyond ; Exile literature.
- Digital Projects:
- - FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL (Freytag-Loringhoven) WEBSITE
- - e-Editions of FPG's AUTOBIOGRAPHIES A Search for America (1927) & In Search of Myself (1946)
- - e-Edition of Greve/Grove's & "Fanny Essler's" POETRY: Poems/Gedichte(e-Ed., UMA 2007)
- - Centennial e-Edition of FPG & FrL's 1904/5 "Fanny Essler" GEDICHTE(German+Eng., UMA 2005)
- - Video Proceedings of the International Anniversary Symposium "In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998"
- - Greve's German TRANSLATIONS Collection
- - Grove's PERSONAL LIBRARY Collection
- - [under construction]: Dysart Collection of RARE BOOKS & Manuscript (incl. 9 mss & 16 Incunabula)
- Websites:
- - LCMND, The Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota:
- - gd's Personal Website
- - LCMND, The Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota:
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