Text als Figur: Visuelle Poesie von der Antike bis zur Moderne (Ausstellungskataloge der Herzog August Bibliothek)

by Jeremy Adler, Ulrich Ernst

German

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King’s College London. He studied German at Queen Mary College (University of London) and was a Lecturer in German at Westfield College before being awarded a Personal Chair. He is a sometime fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, and a sometime scholar of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel.

He has written a book on Goethe’s novel The Elective Affinities (1987) and (with Ulrich Ernst) has produced a catalogue of visual poetry, Text als Figur (third edition, 1990). He has published several volumes of poetry, including The Wedding and other Marriages (1980), The Electric Alphabet (1986; second edition, 1996, internet edition, 1997) and At the Edge of the World (1995).

Jeremy Adler is married and lives in London.