Márton Dornbach
Contact:
Building 260, Room 208
Phone: 650-723-5887
Fax: 650-725-8421
dornbach@stanford.edu
Office Hours:
W 3-5 pmCURRICULUM VITAE:
Download (right click and "save as")EDUCATION:
2004 Ph.D. German Literature, Princeton University
1999-2000 Visiting DAAD Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin Germany
1998 M.A. German Literature, Princeton University
1995 B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Philosophy and German Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
1993-94 Visiting Student, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
1991 High School Diploma, Ágoston Trefort High School, Budapest, Hungary
Courses
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GERMAN221/321Win2012-13
Key topics in German literary culture from the Enlightenment to the revolutions of 1848. Readings may include texts by Lessing, Hamann, Herder, Goethe, the Jena Romantics, Kleist, Büchner, Heine, Droste-Hülshoff. Taught in German; graduate-level but open to undergraduates who have done coursework on or above the 130 level.
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GERMAN245Spr2012-13
Focus on influential theories of aesthetic experience as an autonomous cultural domain that supplements science and morality. How the discovery of beauty and sublimity in nature led to an unprecedented celebration of art as the highest form of human activity. The problem of the relation between aesthetic experience and conceptual understanding. Readings by Kant, Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, Schelling, Hegel, and more recent responses to their works. Taught in English.
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GERMAN132Win2012-13
Literary works in their historical and cultural contexts. Romanticism, responses to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of nationalism and the unification of Germany, the tension between science and religion, nihilism, social transformation. Authors include Tieck, Kleist, Buchner, Heine, Keller, Schnitzler. Taught in German. Prerequisites: Coursework on the German 120-level or equivalent
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GERMAN124Spr2012-13
Introduction to the reading and interpretation of lyrical poetry in German from the 18th century to present. Readings include poems by Goethe, Holderlin, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Rilke, Trakl, Celan, Brecht. Ways of thinking about and thinking with poetry. Attention to poetic form, voice, figural language, and the interaction of sensory registers. Taught in German.
