Prof. Dr. Florian Kläger
English Literature
Academic Degrees
2014 | Habilitation: English Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Münster |
2005 | Doctorate: English Studies, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf |
2002 | Magister degree in English Studies, Medieval History, Modern History, Recent History, Ancient History, Johannes Guttenberg University of Mainz |
Professional Background
Since 2016 | Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth |
2015 – 2016 | Acting Chair of British Studies,University of Münster |
2014 – 2015 | Acting Chair of British Cultural Studies,Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg |
2008 – 2014 | Research Fellow, English Department, University of Münster |
2007 – 2008 | Lecturer and Translator, 4-Real Intermedia, Offenbach |
2005 – 2007 | Graduate assistant, lecturer, English Studies, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf |
2002 – 2005 | Scholarship recipient in the DFG research training group "Europäische Geschichtsdarstellungen", Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf |
Other
- Editor Symbolism. An International Annual for Critical Aesthetics
- Scientific Advisory Board Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power
English Literature
- literary theory
- genre theory (especially relating to novels written in English)
- British literature and culture of the early modern period
- the literature of the diaspora
- literature and science (especially literary astroculture)
English Literature
Selected publications
2024
Klaeger, Florian
Commentary on "The Monkey's Profession" (مهنة القرد في الغابة) and "One Way" (ذهاب بلا عودة): P ...
Literary Translation in Practice : Arabic into English
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. - page 9-25
doi:10.1007/978-3-031-59333-8_2 ...
Klaeger, Florian
Sidereal messages : Print letters in Restoration astronomical writing
in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies volume 47 (2024) issue 1. - page 59-76
doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12926 ...
Writing the Heavens : Celestial Observation in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
publ: Heydenreich, Aura; Klaeger, Florian; Mecke, Klaus; Vanderbeke, Dirk; Wilms, Jörn
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2024. - 279 page . - (Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften; 10)
https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111610 ...
2023
Klaeger, Florian
Nach der verlorenen Zeit : Chronoferenz und Verzeitung in Thomas Sprats "History of the Royal S ...
Zeiten bezeichnen: Frühneuzeitliche Epochenbegriffe : europäische Geschichte und globale Gegenwart
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2023. - page 251-266 . - (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen; 177)
Klaeger, Florian
"The planet-like music of poetry" : The Music of the Spheres and the Poetics of Mimesis in Spen ...
in Etudes Epistémè : Revue de littérature et de civilisation (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) volume 43 (2023)
https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/16265
Klaeger, Florian
Quarantines : Framing Romantic Narratives of Extinction and Epidemic Experience
in Literatur für Leser:innen volume 46 (2023) issue 1. - page 43-60
doi:10.3726/lfl.2023.01.04 ...
2022
Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Einleitung: Literarische Form
Form
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2022. - page 3-69 . - (Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft)
Form
publ: Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2022 . - (Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft)
Klaeger, Florian
The Ode
An Introduction to Poetic Forms
New York : Routledge, 2022. - page 184-193
doi:10.4324/9781003244004-21 ...
2021
Klaeger, Florian
Golden Worlds and Brazen Lies : Astronomy and Poetry in English Renaissance Poetics
Translating Renaissance Experience
Montréal : Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2021. - page 45-66 . - (Vita Traductiva; 12)
Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Introduction: Symbols of the Future : The Future of Symbolism
in Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics volume 20 (2021) . - page 1-18
doi:10.1515/9783110716962-001 ...
Special Focus: Symbols of the Future : The Future of Symbolism
publ: Ahrens, Rüdiger; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics
2021. - VIII, 260 page
doi:10.1515/9783110716962 ...
Klaeger, Florian
"This Prospect vast" : Astronomy in Eighteenth-century British Poetics
Final Frontiers : Exploring, Discovering and Conquering in the Age of Enlightenment
Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021. - page 43-60 . - (Landau Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century; 7)
2019
Klaeger, Florian
Harmonie ist eine Strategie : Gattungs- und Formwissen in Ali Smiths "Brexit-Roman" Autumn (201 ...
Transformationen Europas in der Literatur und Ästhetik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts : zur Ästhetik und Wissensgeschichte der interkulturellen Moderne
Bielefeld : transcript, 2019. - page 371-388
https://books.google.de/books?id=-Sy4DwAAQBAJ&pg=P ...
Klaeger, Florian
Mimesis
Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019. - page 350-357
doi:10.1515/9783110279818-044 ...
Klaeger, Florian
Thalesian Lessons : Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century
Reading Swift : papers from the seventh Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift
Paderborn : Fink, 2019. - page 283-310
2018
Literarische Form : Theorien – Dynamiken – Kulturen ; Beiträge zur literarischen Modellforschun ...
publ: Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. - 477 page . - (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte; 371)
Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Across Philologies : Aesthetic Modelling and Literary Form
Literarische Form : Theorien – Dynamiken – Kulturen ; Beiträge zur literarischen Modellforschung = Literary Form : Theories – Dynamics – Cultures ; Perspectives on Literary Modelling
Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. - page 9-27 . - (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte; 371)
Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
publ: Gill, Patrick; Klaeger, Florian
New York : Routledge, 2018 . - (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Klaeger, Florian
The Earthward Gaze and Self-reflexivity in Anglophone Novels of the 1970s
Limiting Outer Space : Astroculture after Apollo
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. - page 131-154 . - (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
doi:10.1057/978-1-137-36916-1_6 ...
Gill, Patrick; Klaeger, Florian
Introduction : Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
New York : Routledge, 2018. - page 1-14 . - (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Klaeger, Florian
Reading into the Stars : Cosmopoetics in the Contemporary Novel
Heidelberg : Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 2018 . - (Anglistische Forschungen; 462)
2016
Early Modern Constructions of Europe : literature, culture, history
publ: Klaeger, Florian; Bayer, Gerd
New York ; London : Routledge, 2016 . - (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture; 29)
rev.: Walser-Bürgler, Isabella; in: Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 69 (2016), Heft 3/4, S. 209–16
Klaeger, Florian; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina
Einleitung
Europa gibt es doch... : Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literatur
Paderborn : Fink, 2016. - page 7-20
Europa gibt es doch... : Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literatur
publ: Klaeger, Florian; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina
Paderborn : Fink, 2016. - 256 page
Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
La Forma Literaria
in Insula : Revista de letras y ciencias humanas (2016) issue 829-830. - page 45-47
Klaeger, Florian
Die Grenzen der Zivilisation
Europa gibt es doch... : Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literatur
Paderborn : Fink, 2016. - page 79-102
Klaeger, Florian; Bayer, Gerd
Introduction : Early Modern Constructions of Europe
Early Modern Constructions of Europe : literature, culture, history
New York ; London : Routledge, 2016. - page 1-23
Klaeger, Florian
Theorizing Reflexivity in Literature, Law and Diaspora
Diaspora, Law and Literature
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016. - page 113-133 . - (Law & Literature; 12)
doi:10.1515/9783110489255-008 ...
2015
Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging
publ: Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2015. - 400 page
Klaeger, Florian
Insularity, Invasion and Identity : "European" National Genesis in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-c ...
in Journal for the Study of British Cultures volume 22 (2015) issue 2. - page 159-176
Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Introduction
Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2015. - page 1-7
2014
Klaeger, Florian
Form und Funktion : Martin Amis' Verhandlungen von Autorschaft und Roman zwischen Politik und R ...
Autorschaften im Spannungsfeld von Religion und Politik
Würzburg : Ergon, 2014. - page 167-188 . - (Religion und Politik; 8)
Klaeger, Florian
Here Comes Everybody : Anthropological Hyperbole in Some Recent Novels
in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik volume 62 (2014) issue 4. - page 291-308
doi:10.1515/zaa-2014-0033 ...
Klaeger, Florian
Introduction : Symbols of Diaspora
Symbolism : Special Focus: Symbols of Diaspora
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2014. - page 3-17 . - (Symbolism; 14)
doi:10.1515/9783110407990.3 ...
Symbolism : Special Focus: Symbols of Diaspora
publ: Ahrens, Rüdiger; Stierstorfer, Klaus; Klaeger, Florian
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2014 . - (Symbolism; 14)
doi:10.1515/9783110407990 ...
Klaeger, Florian
Was der Roman kann, darf und soll : autopoetologische Verhandlungen der Romanform nach 9/11
Poetiken des Terrors : Narrative des 11. September 2001 im interkulturellen Vergleich
Heidelberg : University Press Winter, 2014. - page 73-91 . - (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte; 328)
rev.: Simone Sauer-Kretschmer
2013
Klaeger, Florian
Something Nasty in the Bookshop : The Feminisation of Fiction in Martin Amis's "Gynocratic" Nov ...
in Anglistik volume 24 (2013) issue 1. - page 89-100
Gill, Patrick; Klaeger, Florian
"You didn’t set me up. Did you?" : Genre, authorship and absence in Martin Amis's London Fields ...
in Trespassing : An Online Journal of Trespassing Art, Science, and Philosophy volume 2 (2013) . - page 36-51
http://trespassingjournal.org/Issue2/TPJ_I2_Gill_K ...
2012
Klaeger, Florian
Reading Iconic Spaces : the Public House in the Contemporary Condition-of-England Novel
Spatial Representations of British Identities
Heidelberg : University Press Winter, 2012. - page 63-81 . - (Anglistik und Englischunterricht; 75)
2011
Klaeger, Florian
"Historical Dialogues" : zur Rolle des Dialogs bei der Konstruktion und Konfrontation historisc ...
Zwischen Wissen und Politik : Archäologie und Genealogie frühneuzeitlicher Vergangenheitskonstruktionen
Heidelberg : University Press Winter, 2011. - page 131-159 . - (Akademiekonferenzen; 6)
2010
Klaeger, Florian
"A Country We Once Called Our Home" : Negotiations of Home in Contemporary Irish Drama
Constructions of home : interdisciplinary studies in architecture, law, and literature
New York : AMS Press, 2010. - page 143-156 . - (AMS Studies in Cultural History; 9)
2009
Klaeger, Florian
"Negative hilarity" : Anti-Comedy in The Information and Troilus and Cressida
"My age is as a lusty winter" : essays in honour of Peter Erlebach and Thomas Michael Stein
Trier : WVT, 2009. - page 71-84 . - (Mainz University Studies in English; 15)
2008
Klaeger, Florian
Gunesekera, Romesh : Reef (1994)
Novels Part I
Trier : WVT, 2008. - page 245-261 . - (Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture; 2,1)
2006
Klaeger, Florian
Forgone Nations : constructions of national identity in Elizabethan historiography and literatu ...
Trier : WVT, 2006. - 303 page . - (Anglistik, Amerikanistik, Anglophonie; 3)
Bayreuther Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
publ: Klaeger, Florian; Steppat, Michael; Wolf, Gerhard
Berlin : peterlang
Symbolism : an International Annual of Critical Aesthetics
publ: Ahrens, Rüdiger; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Berlin, Boston : de Gruyter
http://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/205312
English Literature
Prof. Dr. Florian Kläger
University of Bayreuth
95447 Bayreuth
GW I, Room 1.26
Phone: 0921 / 55-3525
E-mail: klaeger@uni-bayreuth.de
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