|
email:
pauloppenheimer@hotmail.com
Professor, Comparative Literature and English; at
present, Head of Department, Department of English,
The City College (CUNY)
Ph.D., Columbia University, Comparative medieval
literature
B.A., Princeton University, English, Comparative
literature
Selected Fellowships:
Alfred
Hodder Fellowship
(Princeton University); Woodrow Wilson Fellowship;
Fulbright Senior Fellowship (Germany)
Interests:
History
of the lyric (especially English,
German, Italian, French, Spanish)
German
and Italian folk literature
Baroque
art, literature, music (including
modern variations)
Studies
of evil in literature, film,
psychology, history, philosophy
The
Faust legend, the Tristan Legend
Recent Courses:
Gateways
to the Modern: The Baroque in Art and
Literature
Devil
Pacts and Rash Promises: the Hinge of
Plot in Art and Literature
The Invention of Silence: A History of the
Modern Lyric and its Revolutionary Influences
Jesters,
Rogues, Fools, Quacks, Conmen and
Spies: the real Subversives in Western
Literature
The
Faust Legend
The
Tristan Legend
Books:
Before
a Battle and Other Poems. Harcourt, Brace.
A Pleasant Vintage of
Till Eulenspiegel.
Translated with Introduction and Critical
Appendix. Wesleyan University Press.
Beyond the Furies: new
poems. With ten etchings
By Burt Hasen. Editions Faust: Paris and New
York.
The Birth of the Modern
Mind: Self, Consciousness
and
the Invention of the Sonnet. Oxford
University Press.
Till Eulenspiegel: His
Adventures. (2nd rev.
edtn.) Garland Publishing.
Till Eulenspiegel: His
Adventures. (3rd rev.
edtn.) Oxford World's Classics.
Evil and the Demonic: A
New Theory of Monstrous
Behavior.
Duckworth (U.K.), New York University
Press, plus paperback edtn.
An Intelligent Person's
Guide to Modern Guilt.
Duckworth (U.K.); Madison Books
(U.S.)edition:
Infinite Desire: A Guide to Modern Guilt.
Rubens: A Portrait.
(Biography.) Duckworth
(U.K.); Cooper Square (U.S.)
edition.
Blood Memoir, or The
First Three Days of
Creation. (Fiction.)
Marsilio Publishers.
Till Eulenspiegel: His
Adventures. (4th rev.
edtn.) Routledge.
The Flame Charts: new
poems. Spuyten Duyvil
Press.
Articles:
Over
80 articles in such places as American
Book Review,
US magazine,
The International
Journal of Intelligence
and Counter-Intelligence
(political analysis), The
New Leader (political
reporting from Germany; reviews), London
Magazine
(U.K.) (political reporting from Germany), The
Germanic Review,
Dimensions
(theatre criticism),
Backstage, Paedeuma, Art
on Paper, The Jewish
Quarterly
(U.K.), Arion, The
Literary Review
(U.S.), PN Review
(U.K.), Renaissance
Quarterly.
Teaching abroad:
At the Sorbonne (Paris III)
University of North London
University of Osnabrück
(Germany)
University College London (Department of German)
|