Dieter Janik

Dieter Janik (born July 31, 1939 in Neudek ) is a German Romance studies and professor emeritus for Romance studies in Mainz.

Life

Janik was born in the Reichsgau Sudetenland . From 1958 to 1966 he studied Romance Philology (French, Spanish), Latin Studies and Philosophy at the Universities of Tübingen, Vienna and Freiburg in the years. In 1966 he became Dr. phil. PhD at the University of Tübingen . He then worked until 1974 as a research assistant at the chair for comparative literature with Kurt Wais in Tübingen. From 1968 to 1970 he interrupted his work to teach as a profesor adjunto de alemán at the University of Concepción / Chile . In 1974 he completed his habilitation in Romance Philology at the University of Tübingen. In the 1975/76 winter semester he was appointed full professor for Romance Philology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . He worked in this position until his retirement at the end of the winter semester 2007/2008.

His main areas of work are Hispanic American Studies , Hispanic Studies , French Literary Studies, and Literary Theory .

Work and publications

• Dissertation : History of the ode and the "stances" from Ronsard to Boileau in: Ars poetica : Texts and contributions to poetry and poetry, Volume 2, Gehlen 1968
• The communication structure of the narrative . Volume 3 of Theses and Analyzes. Rotsch 1973 ISBN 978-3-8767-4003-4
• Habilitation thesis : Magical conception of reality in the Hispano-American novel of the 20th century: Geschichtl. Heritage & Cultural Trends: Con UN Resumen en Español . in volumes 5–7 of the research problems of comparative literary history . Niemeyer 1978 ISBN 978-3-4846-0029-4
• Kurt Wais , Johannes Hösle , Dieter Janik, Wolfgang Theile : European literature in comparison: collected essays. Niemeyer 1983 ISBN 978-3-4845-0188-1
• Literary semiotics as a method . Fool 1985 ISBN 978-3-8780-8599-7
• as editor: The French lyric poetry by genre . Scientific Book Society Darmstadt, 1987
• together with Lustig, Wolf : The Spanish Conquest of America: Actors, Authors, Texts. An annotated anthology of original testimonials . Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Stages in Spanish-American literary and cultural history: The other's gaze - the path to oneself . Vervuert 1992, ISBN 978-3-8935-4542-1
• Jürgen Blänsdorf , Dieter Janik, Eckart Schäfer : Bandusia . Volume 32 of the contributions to antiquity. Teubner 1993 ISBN 978-3-5190-7481-6 * The long consequences of the short Conquista. Effects of the Spanish colonization of America to this day . Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• The Beginnings of a National Literary Culture in Argentina and Chile: A Contrastive Study Based on the Early Periodicals (1800-1830) . Francke 1995. ISBN 978-3-8233-4147-5
• La literatura en la formación de los Estados Hispanoamericanos (1800-1860) . Frankfurt am Main 1998.
• Hispanic American literatures. From independence to the avant-garde (1810-1930) . Francke 2008. ISBN 978-3-7720-8272-6

Monographs

• Magical conception of reality in the Hispanic American novel of the 20th century. Historical heritage and cultural tendency. Tuebingen 1976.
• Stations in Spanish-American literary and cultural history. The other's gaze - the way to oneself. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
• The beginnings of a national literary culture in Argentina and Chile. A contrastive study based on the early periodicals (1800–1830). Tübingen 1995.

Honors

• Sabine Lang, Jutta Blaser, Wolf Lustig (eds.): "Miradas entrecruzadas" - Discourses of intercultural experience and their literary staging . Contributions to a Hispanic American research colloquium in honor of Dieter Janik. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert 2002 ISBN 978-3-8935-4587-2