Anthropoetics V, 1 Benchmarks
Herbert Plutschow's article on the Japanese Tea ceremony, based
partly on a talk given to the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion,
was prepared specially for Anthropoetics. Erik Eisel's article
is an expanded version of a contribution to a recent conference at UC Irvine
honoring Wolfgang Iser. William Mishler's and Eric Gans's
articles were revised from their talks at the annual
COV&R meeting
in Atlanta in June, 1999.
About our Contributors
Erik Eisel received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the
University of California, Los Angeles in 1997. His dissertation,
The
Works of Karl Philipp Moritz As Alternate Discourse of the Public Sphere,
investigates the role of Moritz's wide-ranging work in theater, aesthetics,
and the science of empirical psychology in the formation of the eighteenth-century
German public sphere. He is currently writing a study of the eighteenth-century
"return to allegory" in the work of Rousseau, Moritz, Jean Paul, and Goethe.
William Mishler is Associate Professor of Scandinavian in the
Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch at the University of Minnesota
in Minneapolis, and an active member of COV&R (Colloquium on
Violence and Religion). He is a specialist in Ibsen and in modern Norwegian
literature. His current research is on the fairy tale, in particular, the
works of Hans Christian Andersen.
Herbert Plutschow was born in Zurich, Switzerland and was educated
in Switzerland, England, Spain, France and the U.S.A. He received his PhD
in Japanese Literature from Columbia University and is presently teaching
Japanese cultural history and advanced language in the Department of East
Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA. He is also a frequent participant
in the GA seminar.
Eric Gans is Professor of French at UCLA. His CV is accessible
by clicking on his name below.
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