del Caro, Adrian

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DEL CARO, Adrian

DEL CARO, Adrian. American, b. 1952. Genres: Humanities, Intellectual history, Literary criticism and history, Philosophy. Career: University of California, Riverside, lecturer in German and comparative literature, 1979-80; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, assistant professor, 1980-83, associate professor, 1983-89, professor of German, 1989-92; University of Colorado, Boulder, professor and chair, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1992. Publications: Dionysian Aesthetics, 1981; Nietzche contra Nietzche, 1989; (trans.) Puntigam, or, The Art of Forgetting, 1990; Hoelderlin: The Poetics of Being, 1991; Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Poets and the Language of Life, 1993; The Early Poetry of Paul Celan: In the Beginning Was the Word, 1997; (ed. with J. Ward) German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age, 2000. Contributor to language and literature, humanities, and philosophy journals. Address: Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, University of Colorado, Boulder, Box 276, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A.