Edward Timms
Encyclopedia
Edward Timms is Research Professor and Director of the Centre of German Studies
at University of Sussex
. He is an internationally acknowledged eminent scholar, and his work is mostly focused on Karl Kraus
and Freud.
German studies
German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German history, and German politics in addition to the...
at University of Sussex
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
. He is an internationally acknowledged eminent scholar, and his work is mostly focused on Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, German culture, and German and Austrian...
and Freud.
Works
- Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna (1986) Yale University Press ISBN 0300044836 reviews: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-7937(198801)83%3A1%3C254%3AKKASCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-1299(1988)42%3A1%2F2%3C100%3AKKASCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/reviews.asp?isbn=9780300044836 http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25336-1914702,00.html
- Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-War Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika (2005)
- Karl Kraus Und Die Fackel: Aufsatze Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte = Reading Karl Kraus Essays on the Reception of Die Fackel (German) (with G. J. Carr)
- Theatre and Performance in Austria: From Mozart to Jelinek (editor, with Richie Robertson)
- Vienna 1900 : from Altenberg to Wittgenstein (editor, with Ritchie Robertson) Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1990