Barbara Naumann
Barbara Naumann (* 1954 ) is a German literary scholar .
Life
Barbara Naumann studied German , English , general and comparative literature and philosophy in Tübingen , Chicago and at the Free University of Berlin . In 1988 she received her doctorate at the Peter Szondi Institute of the Free University of Berlin with the dissertation musical ideas instrument . In 1996 she completed her habilitation there with a study on Goethe and Ernst Cassirer .
From 1998 to 2000 she held a professorship for German and cultural studies at the University of Hamburg ; from 2000 until her retirement in 2019 she was full professor for modern German literature at the University of Zurich . Her main focus is on literature and other arts, aesthetics and poetics, literary and cultural studies. She is the editor of figurationen magazine . In 2016 she was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna. In cooperation with the Johann Caspar Lavater Research Foundation , Zurich, she heads the JCLB edition project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the historical-critical edition of selected correspondence by Lavater.
Publications (selection)
- Musical idea instrument. The musical in poetics and language theory of early romanticism. Metzler, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-476-00720-0 .
- Philosophy and poetics of the symbol. Cassirer and Goethe. Fink, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7705-3297-X .
- Image twilight. Image criticism in the novel. Schwabe, Basel 2012, ISBN 3-7965-2861-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Barbara Naumann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Profile of Barbara Naumann on the website of the German Department of the University of Zurich
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| SURNAME | Naumann, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |