Rainer Nägele
Rainer Nägele (born August 2, 1943 in Triesen , Liechtenstein ) is an American literary scholar .
Life
Nägele studied at the Universities of Innsbruck , Göttingen and Santa Barbara German . From 1979 to 2005 he was Professor of German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . Since 2006 he has been Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yale University . Nägele lives and works in Paris and New Haven .
His main research interests are literary theory , aesthetics , philosophy and psychoanalysis . He is particularly interested in the authors Friedrich Hölderlin , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Charles Baudelaire , Walter Benjamin , Franz Kafka and Sigmund Freud .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer Nägele in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nägele, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | European literary scholar who teaches in the USA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liechtenstein |