Roger Henry Stephenson

Geb. 1946, Emeritus Professor - Emeritiert / im Ruhestand seit 2008, Glasgow, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Glasgow - School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow - Glasgow G12 8RS

Forschungsgebiete

Besondere Forschungsgebiete Weimarer Klassik

Monographien

Studies in Weimar Classicism: Writing as Symbolic Form (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010, pp. xvi + 479). ISBN:978-3-03911-085-8
10. Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism (Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2005) - (with Paul Bishop)
61. Goethe's Conception of Knowledge and Science (E.U.P.: Edinburgh, 1995)
95. Goethe's Wisdom Literature. A Study in Aesthetic Transmutation (Lang: Bern, Frankfurt am Main, New York, 1983).

Aufsätze und Beiträge

‘On the Widespread Use of an Inappropriate and Restrictive Model of the Literary Aphorism’, Modern Language Review, 75, 1980, 1-17
‘Theorizing to Some Purpose: "Deconstruction" in the Light of Goethe and Schiller's Aesthetics - the Case of Die Wahlverwandtschaften’, Modern Language Review, 84, 1989, 381-92
‘“Das Was Bedenke …” On the Content, Structure and Form of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister’, in London German Studies, V, ed. by Martin Swales (Institute of Germanic Studies: London), 1993, pp.79-94 (with Patricia D.Zezevic)
‘“Man nimmt in der Welt jeden, wofür er sich gibt”: 'The Presentation of Self in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschafte’, German Life and Letters, XLVIII, 1994, 400-407
‘Die ästhetische Gegenwärtigkeit des Vergangenen: Goethes „Maximen und Reflexionen” über Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Erkenntnis und Erziehung’, Goethe Jahrbuch, 114, 1997, 101-12; 382-84

‘The Political Import of Goethe's Reineke Fuchs’, in Reynard the Fox: Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. by K. Varty (Berghahn Books: Oxford), 2000, pp.191-207
‘“Ein künstlicher Vortrag”: die symbolische Form von Goethes naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften’, in: Cassirer und Goethe, ed. by B. Naumann and B. Recki (Akademie Verlag: Berlin, 2002), pp. 27-42
‘The Proper Object of Cultural Study: Ernst Cassirer and the Aesthetic Theory of Weimar Classicism’, Cultural Studies and the Symbolic, 1, 2003, 82-114
‘“Eine zarte Differenz”: Cassirer on Goethe on the Symbol’, in Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies, ed. by Cyrus Hamlin and John M. Krois (New Haven: Yale UP, 2004), pp. 157-184
‘Violence and Aesthetic Identity in Weimar Classicism’, in Violence, Culture and Identity. Essays on German and Austrian Literature, Politics and Society, ed. by Helen Chambers (Bern: Lang, 2006), pp. 101-23
‘The Diachronic Solidity of Goethe’s Faust’, in A Companion to Goethe’s ‘Faust’: Parts I and II, ed. by Paul Bishop (Camden House: Rochester, NY 2006), pp.243-70 (paperback version).

Dissertation (Titel) ‘Goethe’s Transmutation of Commonplaces: an Historical and Rhetorico-Stylistic Inquiry into the Nature, Causes and Effects of his Maximen und Reflexionen’, PhD thesis (University of London, February 1977).

Dissertation - Jahr der Publikation 1977

Übersetzungen Goethe's ‘Maximen und Reflexionen’: Selected and Translated, with an Introduction and Notes (SPIGS: Glasgow, 1986).

Herausgebertätigkeit

Goethe 2000: Intercultural Readings of his Work (co-edited. with Paul Bishop) (N.U.P.: Leeds, 2000)
Cultural Studies and the Symbolic (co-edited with Paul Bishop) (Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2003)
Cultural Studies and the Symbolic (co-edited with Paul Bishop), vol 2 (Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2006)
Cultural Studies and the Symbolic (co-edited with Paul Bishop), vol 3 (Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2008).

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte AHRC Large Research-Project, ‘Conceptions of Cultural Studies in Cassirer’s Theory of Symbolic Forms’ (B/RG/AN 8191/APN 14590), 2002-07.

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften

• English Goethe Society (Member of Council)
Internationale Ernst-Cassirer Gesellschaft (Berlin)
#Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik
Goethe Society of North America (founding member)
Modern Humanities Research Association

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