Toni Tholen
Toni Tholen (born March 19, 1965 in Wachtendonk ) is a German philologist and literary scholar .
Life
After graduating from the College Augustinianum Gaesdonck studied Tholen in Münster , Saarbrücken , Frankfurt and Montpellier German , philosophy , middle and modern history . He received his doctorate in 1996 in Frankfurt on the dispute between hermeneutics and deconstruction . From 1996 to 1999 Tholen was a scientific advisor at the Cusanuswerk . He completed his habilitation in German in 2004 in Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on the reflection of masculinity in literature . After teaching assignments and lectureships in Frankfurt am Main, Hildesheim and Salamanca , Tholen has been professor for literary studies and literary didactics with a focus on literary studies at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the University of Hildesheim since 2008 .
Research priorities
- Literary and cultural studies methodology
- Gender Studies (masculinity research)
- Literary theory
- literary modernity
- Contemporary literature
- ethical aspects of literature
Works
- Polyphonia: Decamore: ten speeches on love. Steinhäuser, Wuppertal 1994, ISBN 3-924774-21-8 .
- Experience and interpretation. The dispute between hermeneutics and deconstruction. Heidelberg: C. Winter 1999. (= Problems of Poetry. 26.) ISBN 3-8253-0883-9 .
- Loss of closeness. Reflection on masculinity in literature. Heidelberg: C. Winter 2005. (= supplements of the GRM. 24.) ISBN 3-8253-5073-8 .
- Meike Sophia Baader, Johannes Bilstein, Toni Tholen (eds.): Upbringing, education and gender. Masculinity in the focus of gender studies . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-19112-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Masculinity in literature. Concepts and practices between change and persistence. Bielefeld: transcript 2015. (= lettre. ) ISBN 978-3-8376-3072-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Toni Tholen in the catalog of the German National Library
- official representation on the website of the University of Hildesheim
- pdf article about Tholen from the Hildesheimer Uni-Journal (page 2; 2.39 MB)
- Summaries of reviews of Tholen's books at Perlentaucher
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SURNAME | Tholen, Toni |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wachtendonk |