Werner Wolf (English studies)

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Werner Wolf (born March 11, 1955 in Munich ) is a German Anglicist .

Life

He studied English and French at the Universities of Munich, Canterbury and Toulouse and received his doctorate in 1984 with a dissertation on the French sentimental drama of the 18th century (origin and forms of sensitivity in well-known drama). During his studies he was a member of the German National Academic Foundation . After passing the first and second state exams for high school teachers in 1981 and 1985 , he was assistant professor at the Institute for English at the University of Munich from 1985 to 1994 . In 1991 he received his habilitation with an award-winning monograph on the theory and history of aesthetic illusion and the breaking of illusion in fiction (aesthetic illusion and the breaking of illusions in storytelling. Theory and history).

He was offered professorships and chairs at the Humboldt University as well as the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg and has been professor for English and general literature at the University of Graz since 1994.

Fonts (selection)

  • Origins and Forms of Sensitivity in 18th Century French Drama. Marivaux and Beaumarchais . A contribution to the functional history . Bern 1984, ISBN 3-8204-7443-9 .
  • Aesthetic illusion and the breaking of illusions in storytelling. Theory and history with an emphasis on English illusion-disrupting storytelling . Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-484-42132-0 .
  • The Musicalization of Fiction. A Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality . Amsterdam 1999, ISBN 90-420-0457-6 .
  • Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992-2014). Theory and Typology, Literature - Music Relations, Transmedial Narratology, Miscellaneous Transmedial Phenomena . Leiden 2018, ISBN 978-90-04-34663-5 .

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