Siegbert Salomon Prawer
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Siegbert Salomon Prawer is Taylor Emeritus Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford
. He was Lecturer at the University of Birmingham
from 1948 to 1963, Professor of German at Westfield College
London
from 1964, and became Taylor Professor in 1969. He is a Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
His sister is the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
.
He has written on German poetry and lieder, comparative literature
, and film
.
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. He was Lecturer at the University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
from 1948 to 1963, Professor of German at Westfield College
Westfield College
Westfield College was a small college situated in Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead, London, and was a constituent college of the University of London from 1882 to 1989. The college originally admitted only women as students and became coeducational in 1964. In 1989, Westfield College merged with Queen...
London
London
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from 1964, and became Taylor Professor in 1969. He is a Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
His sister is the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant...
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He has written on German poetry and lieder, comparative literature
Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
, and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
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Works
- German Lyric Poetry : A Critical Analysis of Selected Poems from KlopstockKlopstockKlopstock * Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , a German poet** 9344 Klopstock , a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on 1991 by F. Borngen...
to Rilke. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1952 - Mörike und seine Leser. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett 1960
- HeineHeinrich HeineChristian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...
. Buch der Lieder. London: Edward Arnold 1960 - HeineHeinrich HeineChristian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...
the Tragic Satirist: A study of the later poetry 1827-56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1961 - Penguin book of Lieder. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1964, editor and translator
- Essays in German Culture, Language and Society. London: University of London 1969, editor with R. Hinton Thomas, Leonard Wilson Forster, Roy Pascal
- HeineHeinrich HeineChristian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...
's Shakespeare: a study on contexts (1970) inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 5 May 1970. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970 - The Romantic period in Germany. Essays by members of the London University Institute of Germanic Studies (1970), editor
- Seventeen modern German poets. London: Oxford University Press 1971, editor
- Comparative literary studies, an introduction. London: Duckworth 1973
- Karl MarxKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
and world literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1976 - Caligari's children : the film as tale of terror. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1980
- HeineHeinrich HeineChristian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...
's Jewish comedy: a study of his portraits of Jews and Judaism. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1983 - A. N. Stencl : Poet of WhitechapelWhitechapelWhitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Fashion Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and The Highway on the...
. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew studies 1984. 1st Stencl Lecture - Coal-Smoke and Englishmen : a study of verbal caricature in the writings of Heinrich Heine. London: Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London 1984.
- Frankenstein's island: England and the English in the writings of Heinrich HeineHeinrich HeineChristian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1986 - Israel at Vanity Fair : Jews and Judaism in the Writings of W. M. Thackeray. Leiden: Brill 1992
- Breeches and Metaphysics : ThackerayWilliam Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.-Biography:...
's German Discourse. Oxford: Legenda 1997 - W. M. Thackeray's European sketch books : a study of literary and graphic portraiture. Oxford, New York: P. Lang 2000
- The Blue AngelDer blaue EngelThe Blue Angel is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat. The film is considered to be the first major German sound film and it brought world fame to actress Marlene Dietrich...
. London: British Film Institute 2002, (BFI Classics) - Nosferatu: Phantom der NachtNosferatu: Phantom der NachtNosferatu the Vampyre is a 1979 West German vampire horror film written and directed by Werner Herzog. Its original German title is Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht...
. London: British Film Institute 2004, (BFI Modern Classics) - Between Two Worlds : The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1919-1933. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books 2005 (Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context)
- A Cultural Citizen of the World: Sigmund FreudSigmund FreudSigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
's Knowledge and Use of British and American Writings. Oxford: Legenda 2009