David Damrosch

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David Damrosch is a professor in the English Department. A specialist in modernism, his vast range of interests also include "narrative theory, hermeneutics, ancient literature, and the Bible". He has written articles on "Freud, Kenneth Burke, Kleist, Wordsworth, Norse sagas, Bernard of Clarivaux, and Aztec poetry". Damrosch was educated at Yale (BA, 1975, PhD, 1980).

Works

  • The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987)
  • We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995)
  • Meetings of the Mind; What Is World Literature? (2003)