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| − | * ''Lessing’s Laocoön. Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason'', Cambridge University Press, 1984. | + | * ''Lessing’s Laocoön. Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason'', Cambridge University Press, 1984, ix+275 pp; 2009. [http://www.cambridge.org/ve/academic/subjects/literature/european-literature/lessings-laocoon-semiotics-and-aesthetics-age-reason] Reviews: [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3729032 Nisbet] (1985), [http://scribd.com/doc/236038349 Morton] (1986), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2738938 Leventhal] (1986). |
* editor, ''Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft: Acht Modellanalysen am Beispiel von Kleists “Erdbeben in Chile”'', Beck, 1984. (in German) | * editor, ''Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft: Acht Modellanalysen am Beispiel von Kleists “Erdbeben in Chile”'', Beck, 1984. (in German) | ||
* "Foreword", in Friedrich A. Kittler, ''Discourse Networks 1800/1900'', Stanford University Press, 1990, pp vii-xxxiii, [http://hydra.humanities.uci.edu/kittler/wellbery.html HTML]. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: "I consider Wellbery’s remarks to provide the best commentary on Kittler’s early writings and, what is more, the best account to date of the German intellectual landscape at the end of the twentieth century" (in his afterword to Kittler, ''The Truth of the Technological World'', SUP, 2014:310). | * "Foreword", in Friedrich A. Kittler, ''Discourse Networks 1800/1900'', Stanford University Press, 1990, pp vii-xxxiii, [http://hydra.humanities.uci.edu/kittler/wellbery.html HTML]. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: "I consider Wellbery’s remarks to provide the best commentary on Kittler’s early writings and, what is more, the best account to date of the German intellectual landscape at the end of the twentieth century" (in his afterword to Kittler, ''The Truth of the Technological World'', SUP, 2014:310). | ||
Revision as of 13:46, 19 December 2014
David E. Wellbery (1947) is an American professor of German Studies at the University of Chicago. His current research project is a large-scale study of Goethe’s literary work and scientific and aesthetic writings that centers on the concept of endogenous form. He is also preparing a monograph entitled Self-Relation: A Neo-idealist Theory of Literature.
- Works
- Lessing’s Laocoön. Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason, Cambridge University Press, 1984, ix+275 pp; 2009. [1] Reviews: Nisbet (1985), Morton (1986), Leventhal (1986).
- editor, Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft: Acht Modellanalysen am Beispiel von Kleists “Erdbeben in Chile”, Beck, 1984. (in German)
- "Foreword", in Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse Networks 1800/1900, Stanford University Press, 1990, pp vii-xxxiii, HTML. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: "I consider Wellbery’s remarks to provide the best commentary on Kittler’s early writings and, what is more, the best account to date of the German intellectual landscape at the end of the twentieth century" (in his afterword to Kittler, The Truth of the Technological World, SUP, 2014:310).
- The Specular Moment: Goethe’s Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism, Stanford University Press, 1996, PDF.
- editor, A New History of German Literature, Harvard University Press, 2004.
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