Christoph Reinfandt

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Christoph Reinfandt (born June 2, 1964 in Kiel ) is an English graduate and German university professor. Since 2004 he has held a chair for modern English literature at the University of Tübingen . He advocates a literary theoretical approach that tries to test systems- theoretical literary studies , but also discourse-analytical theorems in the field of English studies.

Christoph Reinfandt was born in Kiel as the son of the musicologist Karl-Heinz Reinfandt . After studying English , German and musicology , he received his doctorate in 1996 with the thesis "The meaning of fictional realities", which has been the subject of the differentiation of the English novel since the 18th century. phil. at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 2002, the habilitation followed with a literary historical investigation of romantic communication, influenced by systems theory and discourse analysis, which questions the traditional concept of romanticism for the period from around 1780 to 1830 and instead starts from a romantic discourse formation that (among other directions) extends the literary discourse up to today decisively structured.

literature

  • Christoph Reinfandt, The sense of fictional realities. A system-theoretical draft for the differentiation of the English novel from the 18th century to the present. Heidelberg (University Press Winter), 1997.
  • Christoph Reinfandt, "Systems Theory and Literature, Part 4: System-theoretical considerations for the cultural-scientific reorientation of literary studies." In: International Archive for Social History of German Literature 26/1 (2001), pp. 88–118.
  • Christoph Reinfandt, Romantic Communication. On the continuity of romanticism in modern culture. Heidelberg (University Press Winter), 2003.
  • Christoph Reinfandt, literature as a medium. In: Simone Winko , Fotis Jannidis, and Gerhard Lauer (eds.): Limits of literature. On the concept and phenomenon of the literary. Berlin and New York 2009, pp. 161–187.

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personal data
SURNAME Reinfandt, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English studies and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel