Manfred Pfister (literary scholar)

Manfred Pfister (* 1943 ) is a German literary scholar .

After his state examination in 1968 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , Pfister received his doctorate there in 1972 .

In 1978 he completed his habilitation (also at the LMU) and in 1980 was given a professorship in English literature at the University of Passau . In 1991 he switched to a professorship at the Free University of Berlin .

Since 2007 he has been a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Publications (selection)

The drama. Theory and Analysis (Munich: Fink, UTB 580, 1977 and more)
Studies on the change in perspective structure in Elizabethan and Jacobean comedies , TUEPh, 3 (Munich: Fink, 1974)
(with Stephan Kohl, Eberhard Kreutzer, Annegret Maack, Johannes N. Schmidt, Hans Ulrich Seeber and Hubert Zapf ) English literary history (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1991)
(with Heinz Ickstadt ), Ezra Pound, Die Cantos , in the translation by Eva Hesse and Manfred Pfister (Hamburg: Arche, 2012) ISBN 978-3-7160-2654-0 .
(with Jürgen Gutsch), Shakespeare's Sonnets Global , 2 volumes (Dozwil: EDITION SIGNAThUR, 2009 and 2014) ISBN 978-3-908141-54-9 and ISBN 978-3-908141-96-9 .
Sir Thomas Browne. Hydriotaphia - urn burial and other writings. Edited, translated and commented by Manfred Pfister. (Dozwil: EDITION SIGNAThUR, 2014) ISBN 978-3906273-00-6 .
English poetry of the fin-de-siècle. An anthology . Edited, translated and commented by Manfred Pfister. (Dozwil: EDITION SIGNAThUR, 2019) ISBN 978-3-906273-35-8 .