William
Stephen Davis
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
and German
Contact Information
office: Cossitt 206
office phone: 719-389-6815
email: wdavis@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education
- Ph.D. Stanford University, 1989
- M.A. Stanford University, 1982
- B.A. Brigham Young University, 1981
Courses Taught
- Comparative Literature: introductory survey and history course, Faust theme in literature, specialized topics in Romanticism, literary theory.
- English: Romanticism, Blake, Byron and the Shelleys, Women Romantic Poets.
- German: Classicism, Romanticism, Language.
- Interdisciplinary Humanities: Utopias and Dystopias, Postmodernism, Freedom and Authority.
Representative Publications
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"Goethe und Schelling: Die Weltseele." forthcoming in Berliner Schelling Studien.
- The Living Landscape: Schelling, Goethe, Shelley.” Inventing the Individual: Romanticism and the Idea of Individualism. Ed. Larry Peer. Brigham Young University Press, 2002, 49-71.
- Mathilda and the Ruin of Masculinity.” European Romantic Review. 13.2 (2002): 175-182.
- Coleridge’s ‘The Pains of Sleep’: Philosophy, Poetry, Melancholy.” Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism. 9 (2001): 51-64.
- The Return of the Material: Goethe, Novalis, Schelling.” European Romantic Review. 12.4 (Fall 2001): 407-428.
- 'What More do You Want?': Iterability and Meaning in Lyric Texts." "Repetition, Readers, Irony." Der unzitierbare Text. Ed. Alexander Schwarz. Tausch 10. Bern: Lang Verlag (1997): 69-74, 99-104.
- olemic: Response to: Herbert Penzl, "Zu den Methoden der Lyrikanalyse: Eine Erwiderung auf William S. Davis' 'Subjectivity and Exteriority in Goethe's 'Dauer im Wechsel'." The German Quarterly 68.1 (Winter 1995) 64-66.
- The Intensification of the Body in Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werther." The Germanic Review 69.3 (Summer 1994): 106-117.
- 'Menschwerdung der Menschen': Poetry and Truth in Hardenberg's Hymnen an die Nacht and the Journal of 1797." Athenäum: Jahrbuch für Romantik 4 (1994): 239-259.
- Subjectivity and Exteriority in Goethe's 'Dauer im Wechsel.'" The German Quarterly 66.4 (Fall 1993): 452-467.
- A Little Night Music: An Intertextual Reading of Goethe's 'Nachtgesang.'" Goethe Yearbook 6 (1992) 87-113.
- Frauenzimmerliche Handarbeiten: Reflections on Goethe's Poem 'Magisches Netz.'" Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik 22, Heft 2 (1991): 58-79.
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