Horst Breuer

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Horst Breuer (born June 15, 1943 in Vienna ) is a German English scholar and literary scholar .

Breuer grew up in Düsseldorf , where he passed the Abitur in 1963 at the Comenius Gymnasium. He then studied German and English in Aberdeen and Freiburg until 1968. There he passed the state examination in December 1968 and worked as a lecturer from 1969 to 1979. In 1971, Breuer received his doctorate (summa cum laude) with Hermann Heuer, followed by his habilitation six years later. Breuer's first position as a professor of English literature was the TU Berlin in 1979 . This was followed by a call to the University of Marburg in 1980 and to the University of Trier in 1996 , where Breuer retired in 2008.

Breuer's research is thematically and methodologically very diverse. His main focuses are Elizabethan drama , Anglo-Irish literature (especially James Joyce ), narrative theory and literary psychology.

Horst Breuer is with the psychologist Dr. Hanne Breuer is married and has two children. The Anglist Rolf Breuer is his older brother.

Publications (selection)

  • Samuel Beckett: Learning Psychology and Bodily Determination. Munich: W. Fink, 1972.
  • Prehistory of Progress: Studies on the Historicity and Topicality of the Shakespearean Drama. Marlowe - Shakespeare - Jonson. Munich: W. Fink, 1979.
  • Historical Literary Psychology: From Shakespeare to Beckett. Tübingen: Francke, 1989.
  • Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre as a fantasy scenario. In: Psychoanalytic Review , 85 (1998), pp. 871-888.
  • Type circles and cross tables: models of narrative communication. In: Poetica , 30 (1998), pp. 233-249.
  • Macbeth's 'bank and school of time' once more. In: Shakespeare-Jahrbuch , 135 (1999), pp. 93-99.
  • Atavism in Joseph Conrad, Bram Stoker, and Eugene O'Neill. In: Anglia , 117 (1999), pp. 368-394.
  • Macbeth. In: Interpretations - Shakespeare's Dramas. Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, pp. 343-368.
  • Scenic storytelling by Jane Austen. In: Journal for English and American Studies, 49 (2001), pp. 361–374.
  • The stain and the shame: shame in Oscar Wilde's work. In: Germanisch-Romance monthly , 53 (2003), pp. 221–240.
  • Hemingway's 'Francis Macomber' in Pirandellian and Freudian perspectives. In: Studies in American Fiction , 31 (2003), pp. 233–248.
  • Main text and subtext in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. In: Journal for English and American Studies , 53 (2005), pp. 1–19.
  • Samuel Beckett and experimental psychology. In: English Studies , 87 (2006), pp. 303-318.
  • Shakespeare's fair friend: the Sonnets and 'Venus and Adonis'. In: Literature in Science and Education , 39: 4 (2006), pp. 273–285.
  • Late Victorian fears: horror literature of the fin de siècle. In: Literature and the Art of Living: Reflections on the Good Life in the British Novel from Victorianism to Postmodernism , ed. by Anna-M. Horatschek u. a. (Trier: WVT, 2008), pp. 119-137.
  • Henry Flower writes a story. In: James Joyce Quarterly , 47: 1 (2009), pp. 87-105.
  • Rules and risks of love: Flirting and choosing a partner in Jane Austen's work. In: Germanisch-Romance monthly , 60: 3 (2010), pp. 293–304.
  • Objects of consolation in the work of Samuel Beckett. In: Space and Object in the Work of Samuel Beckett , ed. by Franziska Sick (Bielefeld: transcript, 2011), pp. 215–228.
  • Platonic love in Shakespeare's sonnet 116. In: Anglia , 129: 3-4 (2011), pp. 378-397.

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personal data
SURNAME Breuer, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna