Clark S. Muenzer

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Princeton University, 1974

• M.A. Princeton University, 1972

• B.A. Princeton University, 1970

PUBLICATIONS

• "Transplanting the Poem: Goethe, Ghosts and The Metamorphosis of an Elegy," in Themes and Structures: Studies in German Literature from Goethe to the Present. Festschrift for Theodore Ziolkoski, ed. Alexander Stefan (Columbia S. C.: Camden House, 1997), 39-77.

• "Ihr ältesten, würdigsten Denkmäler der Zeit: Goethe's Über den Granit and his Aesthetics of Monuments," in Festschrift für Wolfgang Wittkowski, ed. Richard Fisher (New York and Bern: Lang, 1995), 193-214.

• "Herders Von deutscher Art und Kunst: Der Sturm und Drang deutscher Selbst-Legitimierung. Ostern 1773," in Zwischen Traum und Trauma: Die Nation, ed. Claudia Mayer-Iswandy (Tübingen: Stauffenberg Colloquium, 1994), 39-57.

• "Goethe's Gothic Classicism: Antecedents to the Architecture of History in Faust II, Act III," in Faust Today, eds. Cyrus Hamlin and Jane K. Brown (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1994), 187-206.

• "A Kafkan Reflection on Kierkegaard: Auf der Galerie and Kritik der Gegenwart," in Wegbereiter der Moderne: Festschrift für Klaus Jonas, eds. Helmut Koopmann and Clark Muenzer (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1990), pp. 144-162.

• Wegbereiter der Moderne: Festschrift für Klaus Jonas, eds. Helmut Koopmann and Clark Muenzer (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1990).

• Figures of Identity: Goethe's Novels and the Enigmatic Self (University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984). Reviewed in Goethe Yearbook, Germanistik, Studies in Romanticism, Eighteenth Century Studies, and Modern Language Notes.

• "Goethe's Werther and Kant's Aesthetics of Failure," Modern Language Notes, 98 (1983), 492-99.

• "Virginity and Tragic Structure: Continuity and Change in Emilia Galotti, Iphigenie auf Tauris, and Die Jungfrau von Orleans," Monatshefte, 71 (1979), 117- 130.

• "Eduard and Rhetoric: Characterization and Narrative Strategy in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften," Modern Language Notes, 94 (1979), 493-509.

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Wandering Among Obelisks: Topics in Goethe's Historical Reconstruction of Knowledge (Book)
  Introduction: Living with the Dead. Epistemology and Hermeneutics in the Scene "Nacht" of Faust
  1. Graves: Placing the Goethean Monument

  2. Ruins: Culture and The Promise of History

  3. Cathedral: The Babel of Building

  4. Shakespeare and Prometheus: The Commemorating Subject and the Thefts of History

  5. Between Gottfried and Götz(e): Anachronism, History, and the Difficult Whole of Goethe's Commemorative Icon

  6. Origins: Goethe's Urphänomen and and the Eventful Changes of Science

  7. Plant: Goethe's Search for the Urpflanze and the Metamorphosis of Monuments

  8. Transplanting the Poem: The Metamorphosis of an Elegy

  9. Rock: Granite and Goethe's Aesthetics of History "Über den Granit"

  10. The Over-wrought Work: The Architecture of History in Faust

  11. Ausgabe letzter Hand: The Self- Authorization of the Writer

TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses

Authority in Literature; Approaches to Literature; Reading Literary Texts; Kafka and the Modern World; The German Search for Order; Goethe; German Drama from Lessing to Dürrenmatt; The German Novel from Goethe to Grass; Goethe's Prose Fiction; Drama of the Classical Period; Sturm und Drang; Classical Weimar; The Lyric Tradition from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries; First and Second Semester German; Third Semester German for Aural and Reading Comprehension; Beginning Intensive German; German for Reading Knowledge; Reading Literary Texts.

Graduate Seminars

Eighteenth Century Literature; Sturm und Drang; Classical Drama; Goethe; Goethe's Dramatic Practice; Goethe's Faust; German Intellectual History from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries; Modern German Poetry; Kafka.