Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Virginia 1981
  • M.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1977
  • B.A., Stanford University 1971
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Research Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2015
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1992 - 2013
  • Assistant Professor, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1985 - 1992
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Germany (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Morton, M. M. The Critical Turn: Studies in Kant, Herder, Wittgenstein, and Contemporary Theory. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1993.
    • Morton, M. M. Herder and the Poetics of Thought: Unity and Diversity in "On Diligence in Several Learned Languages". University Park and London: Pennsylvania State UP, 1989.

  • Academic Articles

    • Pouvreau, Ruth, and Ruth Morton MM. “Schöpferische Weltbetrachtung: Zum Verhältnis von Einbildung und Erkenntnis in Texten der deutschen Romantik.” Colloquia Germanica, February 2005.
    • Bayer, Oswald. “Vernunft ist Sprache: Hamanns Metakritik Kants.” Lessing Yearbook, 2005.
    • Kerry, Paul E. “Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas.” Goethe Yearbook 12 (2004): 283–85.
    • Baildam, John D., and John D. Morton MM. “Paradisal Love: Johann Gottfried Herder and the Song of Songs.” Monatshefte 95 (2003): 122–23.
    • Morton, M. M. “Lessing’s and Herder’s Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet: A Critical Analysis of the Arguments.” Lessing Yearbook 35 (2003): 137–68.
    • Dürbeck, Gabriele, and Gabriele Morton MM. “Einbildungskraft und Aufklärung: Perspektiven der Philosophie, Anthropologie und Ästhetik um 1750.” Monatshefte 94 (2002): 536–37.
    • Roche, Mark William. “Tragedy and Comedy: A Systematic Study and a Critique of Hegel.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100 (2001): 96–99.
    • Simon, Ralf, and Ralf Morton MM. “Das Gedächtnis der Interpretation: Gedächtnistheorie als Fundament für Hermeneutik, Ästhetik und Interpretation bei Johann Gottfried Herder.” Lessing Yearbook 33 (2001): 336–37.
    • Weing, Siegfried, and Siegfried Morton MM. “The German Novella: Two Centuries of Criticism.” South Atlantic Review 65 (2000): 201–3.
    • Morton, M. M. “Critical Realism and the ’Critique of the Concept’.” Herder Yearbook 4 (1998): 177–89.
    • Morton, M. M. “Johann Gottfried Herder: Academic Disciplines and the Pursuit of Knowledge.” Edited by Wulf Koepke. Lessing Yearbook 30 (1998): 199–201.
    • Zelle, Carsten, and Carsten Morton MM. “Die doppelte Ästhetik der Moderne: Revisionen des Schönen von Boileau bis Nietzsche.” Colloquia Germanica 31 (1998): 67–70.
    • Morton, M. M. “Die Kehrseite des Schönen (Aufklärung, Jg. 8, Heft 1, 1994; ed. Karl Eibl).” Lessing Yearbook 28 (1996): 302–3.
    • Behler, Ernst, and Ernst Morton MM. “German Romantic Literary Theory.” German Quarterly 68 (1995): 443–44.
    • Leidner, Alan. “The Impatient Muse: Germany and the Sturm und Drang.” Monatshefte 87 (1995): 383–84.
    • Morton, M. M. “Herder Jahrbuch/Herder Yearbook 1994.” Edited by Wilfried Malsch and Wulf Koepke. Colloquia Germanica 28 (1995): 164–66.
    • Seyhan, Azade, and Azade Morton MM. “Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism.” German Quarterly 68 (1995): 74–75.
    • Burgard, Peter, and Peter Morton MM. “Idioms of Uncertainty: Goethe and the Essay.” Lessing Yearbook 26 (1994): 155–57.
    • Morton, M. M. “Stilepoche: Theorie und Diskussion, Eine interdisziplinäre Anthologie von Winckelmann bis heute.” Edited by Peter Por and Sándor Radnóti. Colloquia Germanica 27 (1994): 94–96.
    • Por, Peter, and Peter Morton MM. “Der Körper des Turmes: Essays zur europäischen Literatur von Schiller bis Valery.” Colloquia Germanica 27 (1994): 94–96.
    • Morton, M. M. “Vom Nutzen und Nachteil des Mitleids: Eine Anthologie.” Edited by Ulrich Kronauer. Lessing Yearbook 25 (1993): 280–81.
    • Brown, Robert H., and Robert H. Morton MM. “Nature’s Hidden Terror: Violent Nature Imagery in Eighteenth-Century Germany.” German Studies Review 15 (1992): 582–83.
    • Härter, Andreas, and Andreas Morton MM. “Der Anstand des Schweigens: Bedingungen des Redens in Hofmannsthals "Brief".” Germanic Review 67 (1992): 89–90.
    • Mahoney, Dennis F., and Dennis F. Morton MM. “Der Roman der Goethezeit (1774-1829).” Goethe Yearbook 6 (1992): 267–71.
    • Morton, M. M. “The Infinity of Finitude: Criticism, History, and Herder".” Herder Yearbook 1 (1992): 23–58.
    • Morton, M. M. “Faust through Four Centuries: Retrospect and Analysis/Vierhundert Jahre Faust: Rückblick und Analyse.” Edited by Peter Boerner and Sidney Johnson. German Studies Review 15 (1992): 370–71.
    • Markworth, Tino, and Tino Morton MM. “Johann Gottfried Herder: A Bibliographical Survey, 1977-1987.” Lessing Yearbook 23 (1991): 227–28.
    • Morton, M. M. “Verum est factum: Critical Realism and the Discourse of Autonomy.” German Quarterly 64 (1991): 149–65.
    • Morton, M. M. “Reading Nietzsche.” Edited by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins. German Studies Review 14 (1991): 404–5.
    • Adam, Wolfgang, and Wolfgang Morton MM. “Poetische und Kritische Wälder: Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Form des Schreibens ’bei Gelegenheit’.” German Quarterly 62 (1989): 511–12.
    • Flaherty, James C. O., and James C. O. Morton MM. “The Quarrel of Reason with Itself: Essays on Hamann, Michaelis, Lessing, Nietzsche.” South Atlantic Review 54 (1989): 132–34.
    • Morton, M. M. “Eighteenth-Century German Authors and Their Aesthetic Theories: Literature and the Other Arts.” Edited by Richard Critchfield and Wulf Koepke. Lessing Yearbook 21 (1989): 281–83.
    • Morton, M. M. “Erkundungen: Beiträge zu einem erweiterten Literaturbegriff.” Edited by Jens Malte Fischer et al. German Quarterly 62 (1989): 243–44.
    • al, Rainer Nägele et, and Rainer Nägele et Morton MM. “Interpretationen: Dramen des Sturm und Drang.” Lessing Yearbook 21 (1989): 307–9.
    • Knudsen, Jonathan B., and Jonathan B. Morton MM. “Justus Möser and the German Enlightenment.” Lessing Yearbook 20 (1988): 335–36.
    • Koepke, Wulf, and Wulf Morton MM. “Johann Gottfried Herder.” German Studies Review 11 (1988): 145–145.
    • Morton, M. M. “Exemplary Poetics: The Rhetoric of Lenz’s Anmerkungen übers Theater and Pandaemonium Germanicum.” Lessing Yearbook 20 (1988): 121–51.
    • Morton, M. M. “Chandos and His Plans.” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift 62 (1988): 514–39.
    • Schlegel, Friedrich, and Friedrich Morton MM. “Sich "von dem Gemüthe des Lesers Meister" machen: Zur Wirkungsästhetik der Poetik Bodmers und Breitingers.” Lessing Yearbook 20 (1988): 309–10.
    • Wellbery, David, and David Morton MM. “Lessing’s "Laocoon": Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason.” German Quarterly 59 (1986): 311–12.
    • Morton, M. M. “Life Against Death in Bohemia: The Structure of the Debate in Der Ackermann aus Böhmen.” Fifteenth Century Studies 9 (1984): 125–46.
    • Morton, M. M. “Rainer Warning. Irony and the ’Order of Discourse’ in Flaubert.” New Literary History 13 (1982): 253–86.
    • Schings, Hans-Jürgen, and Hans-Jürgen Morton MM. “Der mitleidigste Mensch ist der beste Mensch: Poetik des Mitleids von Lessing bis Büchner.” Lessing Yearbook 14 (1982): 292–93.
    • Morton, M. M. “The Discovery of Death: Dying and Suicide.” Kinesis, 1976, 7–19.

  • Book Sections

    • Morton, M. M. “Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803).” In Encyclopedia of Europe: 1789-1914, 2005.
    • Morton, M. M. “Narrative and Consciousness in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der goldene Topf.” In Die Goethezeit: Werke-Wirkung-Wechselbeziehungen; Eine Festschrift Für Wilfried Malsch, edited by Jeffrey L. High, 231–58. Göttingen: Verlag von Schwerin, 2001.
    • Morton, M. M. “Contemporary Theory and the German Tradition: Some Stages in the Emergence of Critical Realism.” In Politics in German Literature: Essays in Memory of Frank G. Ryder, edited by Beth Bjorklund and Mark E. Cory, 195–215. Columbia: Camden House, 1998.
    • Morton, M. M. “Strict Constructionism: Davidsonian Realism and the World of Belief.” In Literary Theory After Davidson, edited by Reed Way Dasenbrock, 92–123. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1993.
    • Morton, M. M. “Silence Audible: Mauthner, Hofmannsthal, Wittgenstein, and the Vindication of Language.” In Fictions of Culture: Essays in Honor of Walter H. Sokel, edited by Steven Taubeneck, 215–43. New York: Lang, 1991.
    • Morton, M. M. “Discourse and Gesture: The Poetic Dialectics of On Diligence in Several Learned Languages.” In Johann Gottfried Herder: Language, History, and the Enlightenment, edited by Wulf Koepke, 71–86. Columbia: Camden House, 1990.
    • Morton, M. M. “Changing the Subject: Herder and the Reorientation of Philosophy.” In Herder Today, edited by Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, 158–72. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990.
    • Morton, M. M. “Herder and the Possibility of Literature: Rationalism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Germany.” In Johann Gottfried Herder: Innovator Through the Ages, edited by Wulf Koepke, 41–63. Bonn: Bouvier, 1982.

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