Michel Chaouli

 

Publications

Book

The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002). (Description; order or search the book at Amazon.com.)

 

German translation: Das Laboratorium der Poesie: Chemie und Poetik bei Friedrich Schlegel, trans. Ingrid Pro§-Gill (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schšningh Verlag, 2004). (Description; order at Amazon.de.)

 

Articles and Book Chapters

"Laocošn and the Hottentots," The German Invention of Race, ed. Sara Eigen & Mark Larrimore (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006), 23-31.

 

"Die 'Verwandtschaftstafeln der Buchstaben' und das gro§e Lalula der Romantik: Zur Produktion von Sinn und Unsinn in der Literatur" ["The 'Table of Affinities of Letters' and the Great Lalula of Romanticism: On the Production of Sense and Nonsense in Literature"], "fźlle der combination": Literaturforschung und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, ed. Bernhard Dotzler and Sigrid Weigel (Munich: Fink, 2005), 101-125.

 

"How Interactive Can Fiction Be?" Critical Inquiry 31 (2005): 599-617. (Download as PDF)

 

"Signatures of Divinity," an essay on the work of Jakob Bšhme, The New History of German Literature, ed. David Wellbery et al. (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004), 265-270.

 

"Intimations of Mortality," an essay on Novalis's "Hymnen an die Nacht," The New History of German Literature, ed. David Wellbery et al. (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004), 481-485.

 

"Irresistible Rape: The Lure of Closure in 'The Marquise of OÉ.,'" The Yale Journal of Criticism 17.1 (2004): 51-81. (Download as PDF)

 

"The Politics of Permanent Parabasis," Studies in Romanticism 42 (2003): 323-340. (Download as PDF)

 

"Van Gogh's Ear," Modern Art and the Grotesque, ed. Frances Connelly (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), 47-62. (Download as PDF)

 

"Kommunikation und Fiktion: Vom Schreiben und Lesen von Literatur im Internet" [Communication and Fiction: On Writing and Reading Literature in the Internet], Weimarer BeitrŠge 49, 1 (2003): 5-16. (Download as PDF)

 

"Friedrich Schlegels Labor der Poesie" ["Friedrich Schlegel's Laboratory of Chemistry"], AthenŠum: Jahrbuch fźr Romantik 11 (2002): 59-70.

 

"Was bedeutet: Online lesen? †ber die Mšglichkeit des Archivs im Cyberspace" [What Does it Mean to Read Online? On the Possibilities of the Archive in Cyberspace], Text + Kritik 152 (2001): 65-74.

 

"Critical Mass, Fission, Fusion: Friedrich Schlegel's Volatile System," Amsterdamer BeitrŠge zur Neueren Germanistik 47 (2000): 131-149.

 

"Die Verschlingung der Metapher. Geschmack und Ekel in der 'Penthesilea,'" Kleist-Jahrbuch 1998, 127-149. Revised translation of "Devouring Metaphor."

 

"Devouring Metaphor: Disgust and Taste in Kleist's Penthesilea," The German Quarterly 69 (1996): 125-143. (Download as PDF)

 

"Positions on Heinrich Heine," Rethinking Germanistik: Canon and Culture, ed. Robert Bledsoe et al. (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), 183-189.

 

"Masking and Unmasking: The Ideological Fantasies of the Eighteenth Brumaire," Qui Parle 3 (1989): 53-71.

 

Commentary and Reviews

Review of David Bindman, From Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002), Goethe Yearbook 2004.

 

"The Perpetual Conflict in Cultural Studies: An Apology," Profession 2003, 55-65. (Download as PDF)

 

"Foreword,"  issue on German romanticism, Studies in Romanticism 42 (2003): 299.

 

"Fakultativ vorbildhaft: Soll man fźr eine UniversitŠtsreform auf US-Modelle schielen?" [On the Reform of German Universities According to US Models], Sźddeutsche Zeitung, July 14, 2003. (Article at Sueddeutsche.de)

 

"Gleichstrom: Das Patt in Florida zeugt von der StabilitŠt der Demokratie" [The Draw in the Florida Elections Testifies to the Stability of Democracy], Sźddeutsche Zeitung, Nov. 28, 2000.

 

"Ekel. Oder wie sich van Goghs Ohr entfaltet. Untersuchungen eines peinlich kšrperlichen Begriff [Disgust, or how Van Gogh's Ear Unfolds: Investigating a Painfully Physical Idea], Die Zeit 29 (1999): 45. (Article at Zeit.de)

 

"A Vast Unravelling. What Do Literary Studies Teach?" Commentary, Times Literary Supplement 5004 (1999): 14-15.

 

Review of Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Political Crumbs, trans. Martin Chalmers (London: Verso, 1990), Qui Parle 5 (1991): 125-131

 

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