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Emeritus Professor Horst Ruthrof |
Research
The English novel and short story; narrative and narratology; literary theory; philosophy of language; interpretation theories from Kant to Deleuze; language and the body; theories relevant to the humanities.
Interdisciplinary interests: Nonverbal and verbal art; philosophy and literature; cognitive linguistics and literature; film and televisual narrative.
Publications
Horst Ruthrof, The Reader's Construction of Narrative, Routledge and Kegan Paul: London, 1981.
Horst Ruthrof, Pandora and Occam: On The Limits of Language and Literature, Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1992.
Horst Ruthrof, Semantics and the Body: Meaning From Frege to the Postmodern, University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1997; Australian edition Melbourne UP, 1998.
Horst Ruthrof, The Body in Language, Cassell: London, 2000.
Books in Progress
Redefining the Linguistic Sign: Language and Its Perceptual Ground (completed)
Troubleshooting in the Humanities
Heidegger’s Method
Some Recent Papers
Horst Ruthrof, “Literature: The Noetic Dimension,” chapter in One Hundred Years of Phenomenology, ed. Robin Small (Ashgate), 2001, pp.159-173.
Horst Ruthrof, “Translation from the Perspective of Corporeal Semantics,” in Translation/Translation, ed. Susan Petrilli, 2003, pp.69-86. (reprint).
Horst Ruthrof, “Theorizing: An Incomplete Project,” Symploke, 11, 1-2, 2003, pp. 54-68.
Horst Ruthrof, “The Fourth Critique,” New Literary History, 35, 2, 2004, pp. 233-258.
Horst Ruthrof, “The Semiotics of Intercultural Exchange,” Semiotica, 157, 1/4, 2005, pp. 387-410.
Horst Ruthrof, “Modernity: Vernunftspaltung,” Philosophy Today, Fall 2006, pp. 324-337.
Horst Ruthrof, "The Role of Vorstellung in Literary Semantics," Semiotica 165-1/4 (2007), 277-294.
Horst Ruthrof, "Principles of Corporeal Pragmatics", The Public Journal of Semiotics", 1,2 (2007),12-30, www.semiotics.ca/issues/pjos-1-2.pdf.
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