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William Arctander O'BRIEN - Ph.D. (John Hopkins)

Primary Office: LIT 328
Primary Phone: (858) 534-4660
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Email: wobrien@ucsd.edu


Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature: Romanticism; Philosophy and Literature; Critical Theory.

Selected Publications:

"Getting Blasted: Hölderlin's 'Wie wenn am Feiertage...'," MLN, 94.3 (1979): 569-586.

"E.T.A. Hoffmann's Critique of Idealism: Psychology, Allegory, and Philosophy in 'Die Automate,'" Euphorion, 96.4 (1989): 369-406.

"Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis)," Dictionary of Literary Biography: The Age of Goethe (1990): 241-249.

"Herstellung eines Mythos: Novalis' Schriften in der Bearbeitung von Tieck und Schlegel," Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 111.2 (1992): 161-180.

Novalis: Signs of Revolution. Duke University Press, 1995.

"'Blüthenstaub:' Dekonstruktion der Symbolik," Blüthenstaub--Rezeption und Wirkung des Werkes des Novalis, ed. Herbert Uerlings. Forthcoming, Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann.