Michael M Morton

Contact Info:

Office Location:	116E Old Chemistry
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3169
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

• German 184.01, EXISTENTIALIST CINEMA Synopsis

  Old chem 116, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• German 225s.01, INTRODUCTION TO GOETHE Synopsis

  Social sciences 311, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1981
• M.A. University of Massachusetts, 1977
• A.B. Stanford University, 1971

Specialties:

18th Century Literature
Critical Theory
Literary History & Criticism

Research Interests: Philosophy & Literature, Intellectual History

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. M.M. Morton. "Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)." Encyclopedia of Europe: 1789-1914.  (forthcoming).
2. M.M. Morton. "Lessing's and Herder's Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet: A Critical Analysis of the Arguments." Lessing Yearbook 35 (2003): 137-68.
3. M.M. Morton. "Narrative and Consciousness in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der goldene Topf." Die Goethezeit: Werke-Wirkung-Wechselbeziehungen; Eine Festschrift für Wilfried Malsch. Ed. Jeffrey L. High. Göttingen: Verlag von Schwerin, 2001. 231-58.
4. M.M. Morton. "Contemporary Theory and the German Tradition: Some Stages in the Emergence of Critical Realism." Politics in German Literature: Essays in Memory of Frank G. Ryder. Ed. Beth Bjorklund and Mark E. Cory. Columbia: Camden House, 1998. 195-215.
5. M.M. Morton. "Critical Realism and the 'Critique of the Concept'." Herder Yearbook 4 (1998): 177-89.