Volker Dürr (Ph.D. Princeton (1973)
in Compartive Literature and German) is Professor of German
and Comparative Literary Studies.
Professor Dürr's reserach areas include 18th to early
20th century German and Comparative Literature (Goethe, the
novel,
lyric
poetry,
Realist writers,
Flaubert, Rilke, German history). He is interersted in
the interplay of literature and philosophy, as well as literature
and history.
Professor Dürr has publsihed the
follwing books: Versuche
to Goethe, Festschrift für Erich Heller (1976), ed.;
Imperial
Germany (1985),
ed.;
Nietzsche:
Literature
and Values (1988), ed.; Coping with the Past (1990),
co-ed., and Flaubert’s Salammbô: The Ancient
Orient as a Political Allegory of Nineteenth-Century
France (2002), and R.M. Rilke:
The Trajectory of the Poet (2006).
Professor Dürr has also published
a wide variety of articles from Lessing’s
theology to Gottfried Benn (altogether 29), of which
four on Goethe’s narratives, and three on Rilke
should be highlighted, as well as those on Mörike,
Gottfried Keller, Flaubert, Karl
Kraus,
Gottfried
Benn, Hans Egon Holthusen, and Erich Heller.
An article on Wilhelm Raabe’s
"Das Odfeld" has been submitted for publication.
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