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Item Open Access A Note on the pre-History of European Nihilism: Eroticism and Damaged Life in Don Giovanni(andererseits: Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies, 2013-10) Pfau, TItem Open Access "Bildungsroman"(Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 2011) Pfau, TItem Open Access Bildungsspiele: Vicissitudes of socialization in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship(European Romantic Review, 2010-10-01) Pfau, TThis essay scrutinizes the narrative logic of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796), widely regarded as the most paradigmatic instance of the European Bildungsroman. Of particular concern is whether the formal and psychological self-organization of Goethe's narrative and its protagonist can still be articulated as an entelechy, that is, as a manifestation of a teleological framework whose (ontological) authority is absolute and independent of its fulfilment by a specific narrative. Focusing on the ubiquity of "play" (Spiel) throughout the novel, this essay concludes that, appearances notwithstanding, the Aristotelian/Thomist framework is no longer operative in Goethe's novel. Rather, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship - herein differing from Goethe's botanical writings of the same period - presents us with an emergentist rather than teleological model of narrative rationality, that is, a progression that is neither predictable nor susceptible of repetition. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.Item Open Access "Botched execution" or historical inevitability: Conceptual dilemmas in Brad S. Gregory's the unintended reformation(Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2016-09-01) Pfau, TItem Open Access Epochenwandel mit metaphysischen Anklängen: Metasprache und Bilderfahrung in Der Stechlin(German Quarterly, 2013) Pfau, TItem Open Access Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University(Christianity and Literature, 2021-09-01) Aers, D; Pfau, TBoth of us teach in the Duke English Department and hold secondary appointments in the Duke Divinity School. In this essay, we reflect on impediments to teaching Christian literature in contemporary English departments, in particu-lar the naturalistic, anti-metaphysical dogma pervading humanistic inquiry, yet also the widespread theological illiteracy among today’s undergraduates and graduates. Still, students usually embrace focused ethical and theological inquiry, as well as the attention to textual and hermeneutic issues called for by much Christian literature across the centuries. We conclude by outlining options for a more productive future alignment of literary and theological inquiry and pedagogy.Item Open Access Grandeur et Misère de l'Homme : AI and/or Human Flourishing(Logos (United States), 2024-06-01) Pfau, TItem Open Access History without Hermeneutics: Brad Gregory’s Unintended Modernity(The Immanent Frame, 2013-11) Pfau, TItem Open Access Kantian Aesthetics as "Soft" Iconoclasm(LOGOS-A JOURNAL OF CATHOLIC THOUGHT AND CULTURE, 2021) Pfau, TItem Open Access Meta language and visual experience in The Stechlin(German Quarterly, 2013-10-01) Pfau, TItem Open Access Mourning Modernity:: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form(2012-09-18) Pfau, TThis article looks at literary theory. It locates that problematic integral in modernity's dramatically altered experience and conception of time. While the centrality of time to modern theory is hardly in doubt, an acutely temporal dimension also shapes elegiac form and its broader aesthetic significance, in particular at the turn from Classicism to Romanticism. It then views the elegiac as the defining characteristic of aesthetic production in modernity. Mdernity's method-based 'world-picture' as it emerges from the canonical writings of Bacon, Descartes, and Leibniz for the most part understands time as merely 'lapsing' and incessantly receding into a 'past' now conceived as history. In Germany, the rise of modern aesthetics and literary theory correlates with a sustained revaluation of antiquity. The true object of 'mourning' is also addressed.Item Open Access Item Open Access On attention(Salmagundi, 2017-03-01) Pfau, TItem Open Access Response to My Interlocutors(Modern Theology, 2024-04-01) Pfau, TItem Open Access Rethinking the image: With some reflections on G. M. Hopkins(Yearbook of Comparative Literature, 2011-01-01) Pfau, TItem Open Access review of David Collings, Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny at the end of Early Modern England (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP)(European Romantic Review, 2012-03) Pfau, TItem Open Access Review of Paul Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are(Modern Philology, 2011) Pfau, TItem Open Access review of Tilottama Rajan, Romantic Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)(The Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, 2013-10) Pfau, TItem Open Access “Seeing and being seen coincide” freedom as contemplation in Nicholas of Cusa and G. M. Hopkins(Logos (United States), 2019-01-01) Pfau, TItem Open Access Shadowing the lyric: Tilottama rajan reads romantic narrative(Eighteenth Century, 2013-01-01) Pfau, TA review of Tilottama Rajan's Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft (2010). © 2013 University of Pennsylvania Press.