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Besondere Forschungsgebiete:

• German literature and cultural history from 1750 to the present day
• German cinema of the 1920s

Monographien:

• Arno Schmidt. A Critical Study of his Prose (1982)
• The German Bildungsroman. Incest and Inheritance (1997)
• Modern German Literature (2011)

Aufsätze und Beiträge:

• Effi Briest and 'die historische Stunde des Takts' (MLR, 1981)
• The Place of Inheritance in the 'Bildungsroman' (DVLG, 1983)
• Problems of Realism in Immermann's Die Epigonen (OGS, 1985)
• . The City in Early Cinema: Metropolis, Berlin and October, in Unreal City (ed. E.F. Timms et al.) (1985)
• Politics and the Silent Cinema: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Battleship Potemkin, in Visions and Blueprints (ed. E.F. Timms et al.) (1987)
• Implications of the Narrative Technique in Der Butt, in Günter Grass's 'Der Butt' (ed. P.V. Brady et al.) (1990)
• Erzählen, Gedankenspiel, Traum und Sprache. Zur Entwicklung der Form in Schmidts mittlerer Werkphase, in Arno Schmidt. Leben - Werk - Wirkung (ed. M. Schardt et al.) (1990)
• Realism versus Poetry. Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest, and a Post-Realist Aesthetic
• Günter Grass, Die Blechtrommel, in Beyond Realism: The German Novel in the 20th Century (ed. D.R. Midgley) (1993)
• Rilke's Second Elegy, in Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' (ed. R. Paulin et al.) (1996).
• Fritz Lang's Metropolis and the United States (GLL XLIII, 2000)
• Mann’s Literary Techniques’ in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (ed.Robertson) (2002)
• Elisa oder das Weib wie es sein sollte. Two kinds of reading pleasure in the consumption of the eighteenth-century novel, in Remapping the rise of the European novel: 1500-1800 (ed. Mander) (2007)
• Bestseller lists and literary value, in Literarische Wertung und Kanonbildung (ed. Saul/Schmidt) (2007)
• “Even the flowering of art isn’t pure”: Günter Grass’s Figures of Shame, in Changing the Nation: Günter Grass in International Perspective (ed.Braun/Brunssen) (2008)
• Kafka’s Josefine die Sängerin oder das Volk der Mäuse, in Cultural Pleasure, Special Number of German Life & Letters, ed. Michael Minden & Lucia Ruprecht, (GLL 2009)
• Social Hope and the Nightmare of History: Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster and Stadt der Engel’, PEGS 2011)
• “Grass auseinandergeschrieben:” Günter Grass’s Hundejahre and Mimesis (GQ 2013)

Herausgebertätigkeit:

• (with P. Hutchinson) Kafka, Die Verwandlung (1985)
• Thomas Mann (1995)
• Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ (with Holger Bachmann) (2000)
• History, Text, Value. Essays on Adalbert Stifter. Londoner Symposium 2003 (with Swales/Weiss-Sussex) (2006)
• Cultural Pleasure, Special Number of German Life & Letters (with Lucia Ruprecht, 2009).

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA, PhD (Cantab); Fellow of Jesus College

Letzte Aktualisierung: Mon Nov 18 15:37:21 2013