Márton Dornbach
Márton Dornbach
Assistant Professor of German Studies
(on leave during academic year 2011-12)
Focal Groups: Philosophy and LiteratureContact:
Building 260, Room 208
Phone: 650-723-5887
Fax: 650-725-8421
dornbach@stanford.edu
Office Hours:
Th 4:15 pm-6:15 pm (on leave during academic year 2011-12)CURRICULUM 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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GERLIT132Win2011-12
A study of literary movements in their philosophical and historical contexts. Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism. What changes defined German culture between the age of Napoleon to the eve of the First World War? How did Germany become a unified nation? The influence of thinkers such as Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Taught in German.
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GERLIT124Aut2010-11
Introduction to the reading and interpretation of lyrical poetry from the 18th century to present. Major poets writing in German including Gryphius, Goethe, Hãlderlin, Novalis, Eichendorff, Heine, Rilke, Lasker-Schãler, Trakl, Benn, Celan, Brecht, Enzensberger, and Falkner. Close reading technique. Interpretive tools and theoretical concepts. Poetic form, voice, figural language, and the interaction of sensory registers. In German.
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GERGEN210Aut2010-11
The emergence of Nietzsche's main concerns from his influential critique of modern culture and his reinterpretation of Greek antiquity. Pessimism and affirmation, truth and illusion, art and science, scholarship and its limits, decadence and historicism. Focus on The Birth of Tragedy and the Untimely Meditations. In English
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GERGEN265Spr2010-11
The role of nature in aesthetic experience and artistic creativity; the historically changing relation between aesthetic attitudes toward nature and art. Readings in English by Winckelmann, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Adorno
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GERLIT132Win2010-11
Major authors including Kleist, Buechner, Keller, and Storm. Readings in German, discussion in German and English.
