No Accounting for Taste

Authors

  • Kenneth S Calhoon University of Oregon, Department of German and Scandinavian

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.9.0.3980

Abstract

Since the contributions to this Special Issue consist of relatively brief statements, the Editorial Board of Konturen has decided to forego abstracts this time around. Please click on "html" or "pdf" below for the full document of this essay.

Author Biography

Kenneth S Calhoon, University of Oregon, Department of German and Scandinavian

Kenneth Calhoon is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. He received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of California, Irvine. Before joining Oregon’s faculty in 1987, he taught for two years at Haverford College. His writings cover topics that range from eighteenth-century literature and thought through the early twentieth century, his particular emphases being film, the visual arts and psychoanalysis. He is author of Fatherland: Novalis, Freud, and the Discipline of Romance (Wayne State, 1992) and editor of Peripheral Visions: The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema (Wayne State, 2001). His most recent book is Affecting Grace: Theatre, Subject and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist (Toronto 2013).

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Published

2017-08-07

How to Cite

Calhoon, K. S. (2017). No Accounting for Taste. Konturen, 9, 28–33. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.9.0.3980

Issue

Vol. 9 (2017): Triumph of the Will? A New Era in American Politics

Section

Articles