David E. Wellbery
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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.
- 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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