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Elinor SHAFFER

Geb. 1935, Norwich, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - Medienwissenschaft (Fachgebiet) - Comparative Literature; Romanticism; Hermeneutics; Literary theory; Modern German theatre (Lehrgebiet)

Anschrift: University of East Anglia - School of Modern Languages and European History, German Sector, University of East Anglia - Norwich NR4 7JT

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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Comparative Literature; Romanticism; Hermeneutics; Literary theory; Modern German theatre

Monographien: 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770-1880 (1975). Erewhons of the Eye: Samuel Butler as Painter, Photographer, and Art Critic (1988).

Aufsätze und Beiträge: Christian Morgenstern and the Emergence of Modernism in the Berlin Theatre, in Facets of Modernism (ed. J. Garton) (1985). Brecht in Hong Kong, in Comparative Criticism (ed. E.S. Shaffer) (1988). The Hermeneutic Community: Coleridge and Schleiermacher, in The Coleridge Connection (ed. R. Gravil et al.) (1990). Romantic Philosophy and the Organization of the Disciplines, in Romanticism and the Sciences (ed. A. Cunningham et al.) (1990). Kurt Schwitters, Merzkünstler: Art and Word-Art (Word & Image, 1990). Hermeneutic Approaches to Drama and Theatre, in New Directions in Theatre (ed. J. Hilton) (1992). Illusion and Imagination: Derrida's Parergon and Coleridge's Aid to Reflection. Revisionary Readings of Kantian Formalist Aesthetics, in Aesthetic Illusion (ed. F. Burwick et al.) (1991). The Death of the Artist and the Birth of Art History, in Reflecting Senses (ed. W. Pape et al.) (1994). Goethe and George Eliot (PEGS, 1996).

Übersetzungen: The Third Culture: Literature and Science (1997). Comparative Criticism (1979- ).

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA (Oxon), MA (Cantab), PhD (Columbia); FBA