English Literature

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  3. Faculty of Philology and History
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  6. Chair of English Literature
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  9. PD Dr. phil Christoph Henke
  10. Publications

Publications

Books

  •  Common Sense in Early Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics, 1680-1750. Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series 46. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2014.
  •  Literature and Circularity. (Co-ed. Martin Middeke.) Vol. 9 of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics. New York: AMS Press, 2009.
  •  Drama and/after Postmodernism. (Co-ed. Martin Middeke.) Contemporary Drama in English 14. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007.
  •  Vergangenheitsobsessionen: Geschichte und Gedächtnis im Erzählwerk von Julian Barnes. Literatur Imagination Realität 27. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001.

 

 

Book/journal articles

  • "Precarious Virtuality in Participatory Theatre: Tim Crouch's The Author". Representations of the Precarious in Contemporary British Drama. Eds. Mireia Aragay & Martin Middeke. CDE Studies 27. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter (forthcoming).
  • "Laurence Sterne and Common Sense: Discursive Shifts in Eighteenth-Century English Culture". Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne. Eds. Peter de Voogd, Judith Hawley, and Melvyn New. Newark: University of Delaware Press (forthcoming).
  • "Exiled in (Literary) History: James Joyce's Exiles". Censorship and Exile. Eds. Johanna Hartmann & Hubert Zapf. Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2015. 37-47.
  • "James Joyce, Finnegans Wake: Im Zeichen des Zeichens". Große Werke der Weltliteratur XIII. Eds. Günter Butzer & Hubert Zapf. Tübingen: Francke, 2015. 179-200.
  • "Introduction". (Co-authors Mark Berninger & Bernhard Reitz.) Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama. Eds. Mark Berninger & Bernhard Reitz. Contemporary Drama in English 19. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012. 9-16.
  • "Before the Aesthetic Turn: The Common-Sense Union of Ethics and Aesthetics in Shaftesbury and Pope". Anglia 129.1 (2011): 58-78.
  • "Life Spirals and Common-Sense Aporias: Samuel Johnson's Rasselas Revisited". Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 9 (2009): 67-84.
  • "Literature and Circularity: An Introduction". (Co-author Martin Middeke.) Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 9 (2009): 1-12.
  • "Pernicious Reason and Good Sense: Ethics and Common Sense in Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees and Samuel Johnson's Writings". Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen: Proceedings. Eds. Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009. 507-521.
  • "Baudrillard Revisited: Simulacra, Simulation and Postmodern Mythmaking in the Matrix Trilogy". (Co-author Martin Middeke.) Intermedialities. Eds. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel & Gunter Süß. Focal point 6. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. 11-25.
  • "Introduction: Drama and/after Postmodernism". (Co-author Martin Middeke.) Drama and/after Postmodernism. Eds. Christoph Henke & Martin Middeke. Contemporary Drama in English 14. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. 1-33.
  • "'The old solid English standard of Common Sense' - British Common Sense Discourse in the Eighteenth Century". Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures, New Series 4 (2006): 51-66. (Special issue "Common Sense(s)".)
  • "Self-Reflexivity and Common Sense in A Tale of a Tub and Tristram Shandy: Eighteenth-Century Satire and the Novel". Self-Reflexivity in Literature. Eds. Werner Huber, Martin Middeke, Hubert Zapf. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005. 13-37.
  • "Diskursanalyse und Literatur: Michel Foucaults Anti-Hermeneutik". Theorien der Literatur, Vol. 2. Eds. Hans Vilmar Geppert & Hubert Zapf. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005. 243-260.
  • "Common Sense und Englishness in der englischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts". Kulturgeschichte der englischen Literatur: Von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Vera Nünning. Tübingen: Francke, 2005. 113-124.
  • "Memory, Ritual, Literature: Commemorative Rituals in the Fiction of Julian Barnes and Graham Swift". Anglistentag 2003 München: Proceedings. Eds. Christoph Bode, Sebastian Domsch, and Hans Sauer. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004. 367-381.
  • "Remembering Selves, Constructing Selves: Memory and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction". Journal for the Study of British Cultures 10.1 (2003): 77-100. (Special issue "Fictions of Memory", ed. Ansgar Nünning.)
  • "Tristrams Zeitprobleme: Verzögerungen, Anachronismen und subjektive Zeit in Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy". Zeit und Roman: Zeiterfahrung im historischen Wandel und ästhetischer Paradigmenwechsel vom sechzehnten Jahrhundert bis zur Postmoderne. Ed. Martin Middeke. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2002. 91-109.
  • "Stoff, Medium, Zeit - Transformationen in/von Bram Stokers Dracula". Der Stoff, an dem wir hängen: Faszination und Selektion von Material in kulturwissenschaftlicher Arbeit. Eds. Gerald Echterhoff & Michael Eggers. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2002. 131-141.
  • "Kunst und Katastrophe: Ein Zwiegespräch zum 'Floß der Medusa' in Julian Barnes' 'A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters'". (Co-author Charis Goer.) Weimarer Beiträge 46.1 (2000): 129-136.
  • "'How do you turn catastrophe into art?' Oder: Der Stoff, aus dem die Katastrophen sind: Ein Zwiegespräch zum 'Floß der Medusa' in Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters". (Co-author Charis Goer.) Verstärker 4.4 (4 Nov. 1999). http://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/verstaerker/vs004/goer_henke.html.

 

 

Enyclopedia/handbook articles

  • "Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters". The English Novel, 1900-2000: Text and Theory. Ed. Christoph Reinfandt. De Gruyter Handbook Series: English and American Studies: Genres, Media, Periods, Texts, Theories. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter (commissioned for 2016-17).
  • "Otway, Venice Preserved". Das englische Drama und Theater. Ed. Bernhard Reitz. Stuttgart: Kröner (forthcoming).
  • "Methods and Techniques of Research and Academic Writing". English and American Studies: Theory and Practice. Eds. Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald, & Hubert Zapf. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2012. 499-507.
  • "Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man" (Thomas Reid) & bio-note Thomas Reid, "The White Hotel" (D. M. Thomas) & bio-note D. M. Thomas. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. 3rd ed. Ed. H. L. Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.
  • "Julian Barnes". Metzler Lexikon englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren. Eds. Eberhard Kreutzer & Ansgar Nünning. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002.
  • Reprinted in: Englischsprachige Autoren. Eds. Bernd Engler et al. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2004.
  • "D. M. Thomas". Metzler Lexikon englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren. Eds. Eberhard Kreutzer & Ansgar Nünning. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002.
  • "Biographie", "Geistesgeschichte", "Illusionsdurchbrechung", "Literaturgeschichtsschreibung", "Salman Rushdie". Metzler Lexikon Kultur der Gegenwart: Themen und Theorien, Formen und Funktionen seit 1945. Ed. Ralf Schnell. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000.

 

 

Reviews

  • Book series Narrating Futures, gen. ed. Christoph Bode (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013): Vol. 1: Christoph Bode and Rainer Dietrich, Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment; Vol. 2: Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture; Vol. 3: Sabine Schenk, Running and Clicking: Future Narratives in Film; Vol. 4: Sebastian Domsch, Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games; Vol. 5: Kathleen Singles, Alternate History: Playing with Contingency and Necessity. Review article, due for publication in Anglia (2015/16).
  • Heuer, Claudia. Satire und Postmoderne - unvereinbare Gegensätze? Aktualisierungsmöglichkeiten und -notwendigkeiten des Satirebegriffs im Kontext des postmodernen Romans. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014. Due for publication in Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies (2015).
  • Von Koppenfels, Werner. Der Andere Blick oder Das Vermächtnis des Menippos: Paradoxe Perspektiven in der europäischen Literatur. Munich: Beck, 2007. Anglia 128.3 (2010): 522-526.
  • Rorato, Laura, and Anna Saunders, eds. The Essence and the Margin: National Identities and Collective Memories in Contemporary European Culture. Studia Imagologica 15. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. Modern Language Review 105.3 (2010): 825-827.
  • Allrath, Gaby. (En)Gendering Unreliable Narration: A Feminist-Narratological Theory and Analysis of Unreliability in Contemporary Women's Novels. Trier: WVT, 2005. Anglistik 19.1 (2008): 186-190.
  • Heyl, Christoph. A Passion for Privacy: Untersuchungen zur Genese der bürgerlichen Privatsphäre in London (1660-1800). Munich: Oldenbourg, 2004. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 13.2 (2006): 187-188.
  • Scholz, Susanne. Objekte und Erzählungen: Subjektivität und kultureller Dinggebrauch im England des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts. Kulturwissenschaftliche Gender Studies 5. Königstein, Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2004. ZAA 53.3 (2005): 292-294.
  • Elias, Amy J. Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. Anglia 122.4 (2004): 751-758.
  • Helbig, Jörg, ed. Erzählen und Erzähltheorie im 20. Jahrhundert: Festschrift für Wilhelm Füger. Anglistische Forschungen 294. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. Anglia 122.2 (2004): 322-327.
  • Gläser, Rosemarie. Linguistic Features and Genre Profiles of Scientific English. Leipziger Fachsprachen-Studien 9. Frankfurt a. M.: Lang, 1995. Fachsprache/International Journal of LSP 1-2 (1996): 69-71.

 

 

Miscellaneous

  • "Theatre and Politics - Theatre as Cultural Intervention: 22nd Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Prague, 30 May-2 June 2013" (conference report). European English Messenger 22.2 (2013): 76-79. (Co-author Mark Berninger.)
  • "Bodies on Stage: 21st Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Mülheim/Ruhr, 7-10 June 2012" (conference report). European English Messenger 22.2 (2013): 73-76.
  • "Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama: 20th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Mainz, 2-5 June 2011" (conference report). European English Messenger 21.2 (2012): 36-39.
  • "Narrative in Drama: 19th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Paderborn, 3-6 June 2010" (conference report). European English Messenger 20.1 (2011): 81-84. (Co-author Mark Berninger.)
  • [English summary:] "Christoph Henke: Vergangenheitsobsessionen: Geschichte und Gedächtnis im Erzählwerk von Julian Barnes. [Obsessions with the Past: History and Memory in the Narrative Fiction of Julian Barnes.]" English and American Studies in German 2001: Summaries of Theses and Monographs: A Supplement to Anglia. Ed. Horst Weinstock. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2002. 105-107.

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