David Wellbery

LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor of German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Social Thought and in the College

Selected Publications

• Lessing's "Laocoon": Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason (1984);
• Goethe's "Harzreise Im Winter": Eine Deutungskontroverse with Klaus Weimar (1984);
• The Specular Moment. Goethe's Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism (1996);
• Neo-Retorica E Desconstrucao (Rio de Janeiro, 1998);
• Schopenhauers Bedeutung Für Die Moderne Literatur (München, 1998).

Courses Taught

• Goethe: Lyric Poetry
• Models of Literary Signification
• Problems of Goethe Research
• Narratives of Foundation
• The Emergence of Modernism