Rolf Breuer

This article deals with the English scholar and literary scholar Rolf Breuer. For the bank manager see Rolf-E. Breuer , for the literary scholar, medievalist and translator see Rolf Bräuer .

Rolf Breuer (born October 13, 1940 in Vienna ) is a German English scholar and literary theorist .

Career

Breuer passed his Abitur in 1961 at the Comenius-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, studied English, Romance languages ​​and philosophy at the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen, and received his doctorate in 1967 with the dissertation The Function of Descriptions of Nature in the Middle English Versromances at the University of Göttingen . Subsequently, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Regensburg , where he joined in 1975 with a record of Samuel Beckett habilitated . From 1976 and 1977 he was visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst . He then represented the English language professor at the University of Bamberg until 1978 , and that at the University of Marburg the following year . Since 1979 he has been a professor at the University of Paderborn . In 2009 he retired. His work focuses on literary theory, the literature of romanticism in England , the literature and regional studies of Ireland , on Samuel Beckett, contemporary metafiction , follow-up novels and re-writes . For many years he has also published fiction texts. He is married to Cordula Breuer and has four children. The literary scholar Horst Breuer is his brother.

Fonts

• The function of the descriptions of nature in the Middle English Versromances. Goettingen 1968.
• with Rainer Schöwerling: The English studies: technology and content. Beck, Munich 1974. 2nd edition 1982 (Beck'sche Elementarbücher).
• The art of paradox: search for meaning and failure with Samuel Beckett. Samuel Beckett on his 70th birthday. Fink, Munich 1976 (Critical Information; Volume 45).
• Literature: Design of a communication-oriented theory of the linguistic work of art. Winter, Heidelberg 1984 (Britannica et Americana; Volume 3, Volume 5).
• with Uwe Böker and Horst Breuer: The classics of English literature: From Geoffrey Chaucer to Samuel Beckett. Econ, Düsseldorf 1985 (ETB; 10039: Hermes-Handlexikon).
• Tragic Plot Structures: A Theory of Tragedy. Fink, Munich 1988.
• Night, day: prose. Igel, Paderborn 1993.
• Wi (e) dereristory: prose. Igel, Oldenburg 2002.
• Ireland. An introduction to its history, literature and culture. Fink, Munich 2003 (UTB; Volume 2406).
• Samuel Beckett. An introduction. With photographs by Wilhelm Pabst. Fink, Munich 2005.
• Peter Ustinov as Author - An Introduction. Fink, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4590-2 .
• Handbook of imposture in literary studies. Igel, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86815-174-9 .
• English Romanticism: Literature and Culture 1760-1830. Fink, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-8500-5 .
• Relationships - Five Stories. Igel, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86815-563-1 .
• Life on Mars - Narrative. Igel, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86815-701-7 .
• Free semester - Roman. Igel, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86815-706-2 .
• "Lucky Days: Encounters I Owe Beckett," Paderborn University Speeches , Paderborn 2017.
• Long shadows . Igel, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86815-722-2
• Essays in Anglia , Archiv für das Studium ... , The Bucknell Review , Germanisch-Romanische monthly , The Irish University Review , The Journal of Beckett Studies , Merkur , Modern Drama , The Modern Language Review , Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , New Literary History , Orbis Litterarum , Psychology Today , Sense and Form , Universitas , Journal for Semiotics
• Reviews

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Breuer in the catalog of the German National Library