Michael M. Morton
Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
Contact Information
- 116E Old Chemistry, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90256, Durham, NC 27708-0256
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mmorton@duke.edu
(919) 660-3169
- 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, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2015
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1992 - 2013
- Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1985 - 1992
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
- Morton, MM. The Critical Turn: Studies in Kant, Herder, Wittgenstein, and Contemporary Theory. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1993.
- Morton, MM. Herder and the Poetics of Thought: Unity and Diversity in "On Diligence in Several Learned Languages". University Park and London: Pennsylvania State UP, 1989.
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Book Sections
- Morton, MM. "Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)." In Encyclopedia of Europe: 1789-1914. 2005.
- Morton, MM. "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 JL High,231-58. Göttingen: Verlag von Schwerin, 2001.
- Morton, MM. "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 B Bjorklund and ME Cory,195-215. Columbia: Camden House, 1998.
- Morton, MM. "Strict Constructionism: Davidsonian Realism and the World of Belief." In Literary Theory After Davidson, edited by RW Dasenbrock,92-123. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1993.
- Morton, MM. "Silence Audible: Mauthner, Hofmannsthal, Wittgenstein, and the Vindication of Language." In Fictions of Culture: Essays in Honor of Walter H. Sokel, edited by S Taubeneck,215-43. New York: Lang, 1991.
- Morton, MM. "Discourse and Gesture: The Poetic Dialectics of On Diligence in Several Learned Languages." In Johann Gottfried Herder: Language, History, and the Enlightenment, edited by W Koepke,71-86. Columbia: Camden House, 1990.
- Morton, MM. "Changing the Subject: Herder and the Reorientation of Philosophy." In Herder Today, edited by K Mueller-Vollmer,158-72. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990.
- Morton, MM. "Herder and the Possibility of Literature: Rationalism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Germany." In Johann Gottfried Herder: Innovator Through the Ages, edited by W Koepke,41-63. Bonn: Bouvier, 1982.
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Journal Articles
- Pouvreau, R, and Morton MM, . "Schöpferische Weltbetrachtung: Zum Verhältnis von Einbildung und Erkenntnis in Texten der deutschen Romantik." Colloquia Germanica (February 2005). (Review)
- Bayer, O. "Vernunft ist Sprache: Hamanns Metakritik Kants." Lessing Yearbook (2005). (Review)
- Kerry, PE. "Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas." Goethe Yearbook 12 (2004): 283-85.
- Baildam, JD, and Morton MM, . "Paradisal Love: Johann Gottfried Herder and the Song of Songs." Monatshefte 95 (2003): 122-23. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Lessing’s and Herder’s Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet: A Critical Analysis of the Arguments." Lessing Yearbook 35 (2003): 137-68. (Academic Article)
- Dürbeck, G, and Morton MM, . "Einbildungskraft und Aufklärung: Perspektiven der Philosophie, Anthropologie und Ästhetik um 1750." Monatshefte 94 (2002): 536-37. (Review)
- Roche, MW. "Tragedy and Comedy: A Systematic Study and a Critique of Hegel." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100 (2001): 96-99. (Review)
- Simon, R, and Morton MM, . "Das Gedächtnis der Interpretation: Gedächtnistheorie als Fundament für Hermeneutik, Ästhetik und Interpretation bei Johann Gottfried Herder." Lessing Yearbook 33 (2001): 336-37. (Review)
- Weing, S, and Morton MM, . "The German Novella: Two Centuries of Criticism." South Atlantic Review 65 (2000): 201-03. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Critical Realism and the ’Critique of the Concept’." Herder Yearbook 4 (1998): 177-89. (Academic Article)
- Morton, MM. "Johann Gottfried Herder: Academic Disciplines and the Pursuit of Knowledge." Edited by W Koepke. Lessing Yearbook 30 (1998): 199-201. (Review)
- Zelle, C, and Morton MM, . "Die doppelte Ästhetik der Moderne: Revisionen des Schönen von Boileau bis Nietzsche." Colloquia Germanica 31 (1998): 67-70. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Die Kehrseite des Schönen (Aufklärung, Jg. 8, Heft 1, 1994; ed. Karl Eibl)." Lessing Yearbook 28 (1996): 302-03. (Review)
- Behler, E, and Morton MM, . "German Romantic Literary Theory." German Quarterly 68 (1995): 443-44. (Review)
- Leidner, A. "The Impatient Muse: Germany and the Sturm und Drang." Monatshefte 87 (1995): 383-84. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Herder Jahrbuch/Herder Yearbook 1994." Edited by W Malsch and W Koepke. Colloquia Germanica 28 (1995): 164-66.
- Seyhan, A, and Morton MM, . "Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism." German Quarterly 68 (1995): 74-75. (Review)
- Burgard, P, and Morton MM, . "Idioms of Uncertainty: Goethe and the Essay." Lessing Yearbook 26 (1994): 155-57. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Stilepoche: Theorie und Diskussion, Eine interdisziplinäre Anthologie von Winckelmann bis heute." Edited by P Por and S Radnóti. Colloquia Germanica 27 (1994): 94-96. (Review)
- Por, P, and Morton MM, . "Der Körper des Turmes: Essays zur europäischen Literatur von Schiller bis Valery." Colloquia Germanica 27 (1994): 94-96. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Vom Nutzen und Nachteil des Mitleids: Eine Anthologie." Edited by U Kronauer. Lessing Yearbook 25 (1993): 280-81.
- Brown, RH, and Morton MM, . "Nature’s Hidden Terror: Violent Nature Imagery in Eighteenth-Century Germany." German Studies Review 15 (1992): 582-83. (Review)
- Härter, A, and Morton MM, . "Der Anstand des Schweigens: Bedingungen des Redens in Hofmannsthals "Brief"." Germanic Review 67 (1992): 89-90. (Review)
- Mahoney, DF, and Morton MM, . "Der Roman der Goethezeit (1774-1829)." Goethe Yearbook 6 (1992): 267-71. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "The Infinity of Finitude: Criticism, History, and Herder"." Herder Yearbook 1 (1992): 23-58. (Academic Article)
- Morton, MM. "Faust through Four Centuries: Retrospect and Analysis/Vierhundert Jahre Faust: Rückblick und Analyse." Edited by P Boerner and S Johnson. German Studies Review 15 (1992): 370-71. (Review)
- Markworth, T, and Morton MM, . "Johann Gottfried Herder: A Bibliographical Survey, 1977-1987." Lessing Yearbook 23 (1991): 227-28.
- Morton, MM. "Verum est factum: Critical Realism and the Discourse of Autonomy." German Quarterly 64 (1991): 149-65. (Academic Article)
- Morton, MM. "Reading Nietzsche." Edited by RC Solomon and KM Higgins. German Studies Review 14 (1991): 404-05. (Review)
- Adam, W, and Morton MM, . "Poetische und Kritische Wälder: Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Form des Schreibens ’bei Gelegenheit’." German Quarterly 62 (1989): 511-12. (Review)
- Flaherty, JCO, and Morton MM, . "The Quarrel of Reason with Itself: Essays on Hamann, Michaelis, Lessing, Nietzsche." South Atlantic Review 54 (1989): 132-34. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Eighteenth-Century German Authors and Their Aesthetic Theories: Literature and the Other Arts." Edited by R Critchfield and W Koepke. Lessing Yearbook 21 (1989): 281-83. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Erkundungen: Beiträge zu einem erweiterten Literaturbegriff." Edited by JMFE al. German Quarterly 62 (1989): 243-44. (Review)
- al, RNE, and Morton MM, . "Interpretationen: Dramen des Sturm und Drang." Lessing Yearbook 21 (1989): 307-09. (Review)
- Knudsen, JB, and Morton MM, . "Justus Möser and the German Enlightenment." Lessing Yearbook 20 (1988): 335-36. (Review)
- Koepke, W, and Morton MM, . "Johann Gottfried Herder." German Studies Review 11 (1988): 145-145. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Exemplary Poetics: The Rhetoric of Lenz’s Anmerkungen übers Theater and Pandaemonium Germanicum." Lessing Yearbook 20 (1988): 121-51. (Academic Article)
- Morton, MM. "Chandos and His Plans." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift 62 (1988): 514-39. (Academic Article)
- Schlegel, F, and Morton MM, . "Sich "von dem Gemüthe des Lesers Meister" machen: Zur Wirkungsästhetik der Poetik Bodmers und Breitingers." Lessing Yearbook 20 (1988): 309-10. (Review)
- Wellbery, D, and Morton MM, . "Lessing’s "Laocoon": Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason." German Quarterly 59 (1986): 311-12. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "Life Against Death in Bohemia: The Structure of the Debate in Der Ackermann aus Böhmen." Fifteenth-Century Studies 9 (1984): 125-46. (Academic Article)
- Morton, MM. "Rainer Warning. Irony and the ’Order of Discourse’ in Flaubert." New Literary History 13 (1982): 253-86.
- Schings, H-J, and Morton MM, . "Der mitleidigste Mensch ist der beste Mensch: Poetik des Mitleids von Lessing bis Büchner." Lessing Yearbook 14 (1982): 292-93. (Review)
- Morton, MM. "The Discovery of Death: Dying and Suicide." Kinesis (1976): 7-19. (Academic Article)
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