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| Ph.D., History of the Theater, University of Vienna, 1963, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1967 |
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Paul Hernadi
Emeritus
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
Tel: (805) 893-3479
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: hernadip@english.ucsb.edu
Personal Homepage: [link]
Office: SH 2709
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| Paul Hernadi is a Research Professor in the English Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a Ph.D. in the History of Theater from the University of Vienna in 1963, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1967. His central interests include literary theory, history of criticism, and European drama. He is the author of Cultural Transactions: Nature, Self, Society (1995), Interpreting Events: Tragicomedies of History on the Modern Stage (1995), and Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classifications (1972). |
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Areas of Interest |
- Literary Theory
- History of Criticism
- European Drama
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Books and Recent Articles |
- Cultural Transactions: Nature, Self, Society (Cornell U P, 1995)
- Interpreting Events: Tragicomedies of History on the Modern Stage (Cornell U P, 1985)
- Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classification (Cornell U P, 1972)
- Teoría de los géneros literarios (Barcelona: Bosch, 1978; Spanish trans. of Beyond Genre)
- Interpreting Goethe's Faust Today, co-edited with Jane K. Brown et al (Camden House, 1994)
- Editor, The Rhetoric of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Rhetoric (Duke Univ. Press, 1989)
- Editor, The Horizon of Literature (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1982)
- Editor, What Is Criticism? (Indiana Univ. Press, 1981)
- Editor, What Is Literature? (Indiana Univ. Press, 1978); Korean trans. (Changhak Publishing Co., 1983)
- "Why Is Literature: A Co-Evolutionary Perspective on Imaginative Worldmaking," Poetics Today 23:1 (2002)
- "Literature and Evolution," Sub-Stance 30.1-2 (2001)
- "The Tropical Landscapes of Proverbia: A Crossdisciplinary Travelogue" (with Francis Steen), Style 33.1 (1999)
- "Criticism, Literary," Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia
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Current Projects |
- Book in progress titled "Why is Literature?"
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Recent Course Offerings |
- Representation or Intervention: Literary Theories of Cognition and Emotion from Plato to the Present
- Good and Evil in Post-Enlightenment European Thought and Literature
- Existential Criminals in Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Camus
- Literature and Cognition
- Methods of Literary Study
- Introduction to Literary Genres
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Courses
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| Winter 2002 |
COMPLIT 99 |
TBA |
| Fall 2001 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Reader Response |
| Winter 2001 |
ENGL 165GE |
Topics in Literature
: Good and Evil |
| Fall 2000 |
COMPLIT 256 |
Critical Traditions
: Representation or Intervention: Literary Theories of Cognition and Emotion from Plato to the Present |
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