Contributors
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S. D. Chrostowska is completing her doctorate at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. Her dissertation examines the genres of literary-critical discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, between 1700 and 1900. This research involves rethinking the place of genre in discourse and intellectual history. She is the author of several (published and forthcoming) articles in historiography, literary criticism, modernist literature, psychoanalysis and aesthetics, and film. In 2006, she plans to study eighteenth-century European diplomacy and rhetoric as a postdoctoral fellow.
Carsten Dutt teaches German literature at the University of Heidelberg and is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar. His publications include Hermeneutik, Ästhetik, Praktische Philosophie: Hans-Georg Gadamer im Gespräch (2000). Currently he is completing a book entitled Zur Lyrik Gottfried Benns: Gedichtstrukturen und Epochenbezüge.
William Franke is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University, where he directs the graduate program in philosophy and literature. He is currently teaching postmodernism as honorary associate professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has published philosophical and theological interpretations of poets and literary theoretical essays. His forthcoming On What Cannot be Said: Apophatic Discourse in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts proposes a synoptic vision of Western tradition of apophatic discourse from Plato to postmodernism.
Mario Klarer is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has published on literature and the visual arts, literary utopias, and travel narratives. His recent book publications include Ekphrasis (Niemeyer, 2001), An Introduction to Literature (2nd ed. Routledge, 2004), and Präsentieren auf Englisch (Redline Ueberreuter, 3rd ed. 2006).
Wang Ning is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Chinese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the editor of the Chinese edition of New Literary History and Critical Inquiry. His most recent English publications include Globalization and Cultural Translation (2004) and Northrop Frye: Eastern and Western Perspectives (co-edited, 2003). [End Page 661]
Timothy O’leary is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He has published in the areas of aesthetics, literature, and ethics. His current research focuses on literature and its transformative potential. This book project grows out of his Foucault and the Art of Ethics (2002) and combines the work of philosophers such as Foucault, Dewey, and Deleuze with writers including Swift, Yeats, Beckett, and Heaney.
Michael Sinding is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. His work on cognitive approaches to genre, metaphor, and narrative has appeared in such journals as Genre, Style, and Semiotica. He is currently working on books about Menippean satire, genre blending, and Northrop Frye’s literary and cultural theory.
Walter H. Sokel is Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of German and English Literature at the University of Virginia. His works include The Writer in Extremis: Expressionism in Twentieth-Century German Literature (1959), Franz Kafka: Tragik und Ironie (1964), Franz Kafka (1966), and The Myth of Power and the Self (2002). He is the editor of Prelude to the Absurd: An Anthology of German Expressionist Drama (1963). He is at work on a study of Nietzsche entitled Dionysian Aestheticism and the Justice of Irony: Nietzsche’s Monism and its Consequences. In 1998 he received the Honorary Cross, First Class, in the Arts and Sciences, of the Republic of Austria.
