David E. Wellbery

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David E. Wellbery (born January 17, 1947 ) is a professor of German literature at the University of Chicago . He is considered an internationally recognized literary scholar .

Career

Wellbery began his academic career at Stanford University , where he worked between 1975 and 1990. From 1990 to 2001 he taught at Johns Hopkins University as a professor of German studies. Since 2001 he has held the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh-Carlson Chair of German Studies at the University of Chicago . He was visiting professor at the Universities of Bonn , Princeton , UERJ ( Rio de Janeiro ) and Copenhagen .

Wellbery is attested to technical brilliance for his entry "Mood" in the Lexicon Aesthetic Basic Concepts (2003): Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht emphasized in 2011 that Wellbery had succeeded for the first time with this contribution to the conceptual history of "Mood" in its historical and semantic layers to reconstruct.

Awards

Works

Monographs
  • Lessing's Laocoön. Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason . ISBN 0521257948 (1984)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Harz Reise im Winter: An interpretative controversy , together with Klaus Weimar . ISBN 3506750542 (1984)
  • The Specular Moment: Goethe's Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism . ISBN 0804726949 (1996)
  • Neo-retórica e desconstrução . ISBN 8585881526 (1998)
  • Schopenhauer's importance for modern literature . (1998)
  • Tightrope walker of the paradoxical . ISBN 3446208003 (2006)
Lexicon entry
  • "Mood", entry in: Basic aesthetic terms . Volume 5: Postmodernism - Synesthesia , edited by Karlheinz Barck, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2003, ISBN 3-476-01659-5
Editorships
  • Positions in literary studies . ISBN 3406377319 , 4th edition (2002)
  • Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality, and the Self in Western Thought , with Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, Arnold I. Davidson , Ann Swidler, and Ian Watt . ISBN 0804712913 (1986)
  • Interpretation - Discourse - Society , with Russell Berman ( Stanford Literature Review ) (1986)
  • Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Novella = Bd. 11 von Goethe. The Collected Works . ISBN 0691043469 (1989)
  • The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice , with John Bender ISBN 0804718180 (1990)
  • Chronotypes: The Construction of Time , with John Bender. ISBN 0804719128 (1991)
  • Traditions of Experiment from the Enlightenment to the Present: Essays in Honor of Peter Demetz , with Nancy Kaiser. ISBN 0472103091 (1992)
  • Observation / Form / Difference: Literary Studies and Second-Order Cybernetics (Special Volume MLN , 1996)
  • Augenmensch - on the importance of seeing in Goethe's work , with Dorothea von Muecke (special volume German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history , 2001)
  • Art - procreation - birth , with Christian Begemann . ISBN 3793092747 (2002)
  • New History of German Literature . Editor-in-chief. ISBN 0674015037 (2005)
    • A new history of German literature (ed.), Berlin University Press, Berlin 2008. ISBN 9783940432124

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David E. Wellbery: "Mood", entry in: Aesthetic basic concepts . Volume 5: Postmodernism - Synesthesia , edited by Karlheinz Barck, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2003, ISBN 3-476-01659-5
  2. ^ Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Reading moods. About a hidden reality of literature. Table of contents Edition Akzente. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23504-5 , pp. 16-17.
  3. ↑ a b c David E. Wellbery receives Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize from the DAAD , in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from July 20, 2010, accessed on August 2, 2010
  4. ↑ Member entry of David E. Wellbery (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 22, 2016.
  5. ^ David Wellbery at the German Academy for Language and Poetry
  6. ↑ FAZ of July 23, 2010, page 32
  7. ^ Member entry by David E. Wellbery at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on February 22, 2016.
  8. ^ Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Reading moods. About a hidden reality of literature. Table of contents Edition Akzente. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23504-5 , pp. 16-17.
personal data
SURNAME Wellbery, David E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American professor, professor of German literature at the University of Chicago
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1947