Dr. Walter Veit, Honorary Associate Professor
Overview
Areas of research interest: Medieval and baroque studies; comparative literature; literary theory; poetics; aesthetics, rhetoric and intercultural studies.
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Contact Details
Room W321
Menzies Building
(Building 11)
Consultation by appointment
Contact
Phone: 03 9905 2244
FAX: 03 9905 5437
Email:
walter.veit@arts.monash.edu.au
Mailing Address:
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Building
11
Monash University
Clayton 3800
AUSTRALIA
Background
Born in Germany in 1935, Walter
Friedrich Veit was educated at the universities of Tbingen
and Cologne, where he studied History, Philosophy, German Literature
and Comparative Literature. He received his doctorate in 1960 from
the University of Cologne. From 1963 to 1965 he taught German at
the University of Ceylon. In 1967, he came to the Department of German
Studies at Monash University where he is now, after his official
retirement in 2000, an Honorary Associate Professor. He taught German
literature and philosophy, Comparative Literature, and European Studies
and at present supervises a number of PhD-students. His research
and publications comprise the areas of literary theory, comparative
and intercultural studies, history of ideas, Australian-German intellectual
relations, and travel literature. He has been Visiting Professor
at the universities of Cologne, Berlin, Kiel. Walter Veit was also
a founder member of the Centre and its long-serving second Director.
He is now Senior Research Associate of the Centre.
He
was president of the Australian and South Pacific Association of
Comparative Literature Studies (ASPACLS), vice-president of the Contemporary
European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA), and a member of
the Executive of the International Comparative Literature Association
(ICLA). He is at present an Honorary Associate Professor of the Contemporary
European Research Centre (CERC) of the University of Melbourne.
In close co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Melbourne
he has organized four international European Studies conferences:
Europe 1992 (1989), Economy and Culture (1993), The Future of Work
- Work of the Future (1995), and Change of Values - Value of Change
(1997.
In 1997 he was awarded the Cross of Honour (First
Class (Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster
Klasse) of the Federal
Republic of Germany for services to German Studies in Australia.
His current research projects are in the area of the philosophy of rhetoric and topics, and in the history of the contributions of scientists and missionaries from German speaking countries to the cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage of Australia. Publications in both areas are listed in the bibliography below.
Selected Publications
Books
- 1963
Studien zur Geschichte der Goldenen Zeit von der Antike bis zum 18.Jahrhundert.
Studies in the history of the Golden Age from antiquity to
the 18th century.) Cologne, IX,198 pp. - 1970 (ed.) Captain James Cook Image and Impact. South Seas Discovesrie and the World of Letters. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press; 137 pp.
- 1980 (ed.) Captain James Cook Image and Impact. The Pacific Syndrom Conditions and Consequences. vol.2; Melbourne, Hawthorn Press; 200 pp.
- 1987 (ed.) Antipodische Aufklrungen
? Antipodean Enlightenments. Festschrift fr Leslie
Bodi. Frankfurt - Zrich - New York, Peter
Lang, 556 pp. - 1988 (translated) Grassi, E. Renaissance Humanism. Studies in Philosophy and Poetics. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol.51; Binghamton, New York; 145pp.
- 1992 (ed.) with B.Nelson & D.Roberts, The European Community in the 1990s: Economics, Politics, Defense. Oxford, Berg, 232 pp.
- 1992 (ed.) with B.Nelson & D.Roberts, The Idea of Europe. Problems of National and Transnational Identity. Oxford, Berg,180 pp.
- 1993 (ed.) with V. Wolf, Bibliography of German Studies in Australia 1960
- 1992. Goethe-Institut, Melbourne - National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia. Mnchen, iudicium verlag, X,235 pp.
- 1997 (ed.) with P.James & St. Wright, Work of the Future: Global Perspectives. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997, 349pp.
- 2004 (ed.) The Struggle for Souls and Science. Constructing the Fifth Continent: German Missionaries and Scientists. Occasional Paper Number 3. Northern Territory Government: Strehlow Research Centre. Alice Springs. 2004, 4o 216pp.
- 2005 "Arbeiter im Weinberg" oder "Der ungebildete Missionar." Aspekte der nicht-theologischen Bildung der Missionare. (Berliner Beitrge zur Missionsgeschichte 8) Berlin: Wichern Verlag.
Articles
- 1963 Toposforschung: Ein Forschungsbericht. Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fhr Literatur und Geistesgeschichte 37 (1963): 120-163.
- 1971 "Autoritt." (Authority in rhetoric and literature.) Historisches Wrterbuch der Philosophie, ed. J.Ritter et. al. Stuttgart - Basel, Schwabe; vol.1 pp. 724-727;
- 1971 "Political Theories." The German Tradition (ed.) Marion
- 1980 "Intellectual Tradition and Pacific Discoveries - The Function of Quotations in Georg Forster's Voyage Round the World." Captain James Cook - Image and Impact. vol.2, pp.95-117;
- 1981 "History and Temporality. Some Theses Against Scepticism in the Writing of Literary History." Neohelicon Budapest; VIII,2 pp. 255-267.
- 1983 "Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Romantic Nationalism." Romantic Nationalism in Europe. (ed.) J.C.Eade, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra; Monograph No.2; pp.151-164;
- 1983 "The Topoi of the European Imagining of the Non-European World." arcadia. Zeitschrift fhr Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Berlin, 18,3; pp.1-20;
- 1984 "The Potency of Imagery - the Impotence of Rational Language: Ernesto Grassi's contribution to modern epistemology." Philosophy and Rhetoric, 17,4 pp. 221-239;
- 1985 "berlegungen zur Hermeneutik der Germanistik in Australien."(Reflexions on the hermeneutics of German studies in Australia.) in: Das Fremde und das Eigene: Prolegomena zu einer interkulturellen Germanistik (The Foreign and the Familiar. Prolegomena toward intercultural German studies.)(ed.)A.Wierlacher, Munich, iudicium-Verlag, pp. 314-326;
- 1986 "Sancta Simplicitas." in Sensus Communis. Trends in Comparative Literature. Festschrift for H.H.H. Remak,(eds.)J.Riesz, et al. Stuttgart, G.Narr Verlag, pp.369-383;
- 1987 "Die Hermeneutik des Fremden." (The hermeneutics of the foreign.) in: Anspruch und Widerspruch. Zrcher Gesprche - Zurich Colloquia, vol.2 (eds.) E.Grassi and H.Schmale, Munich, W.Fink; pp. 35-69;
- 1987 "Simplicitas antipodea." in: Antipodische Aufklrungen - Antipodean Enlightenments. pp.489-502;
- 1987 "The Foreign and the Familiar: `Deutsch als Fremdsprache' and `Interkulturelle Germanistik'." (`German as a Foreign Language' and `Intercultural German Studies'.) In: AUMLA 67, pp.5-24;
- 1989 "E.R.Curtius' Anstsse zu einer Erneuerung der Literaturtheorie." in W.Berschin & A.Rothe (eds.) Ernst Robert Curtius - Werk, Wirkung, Zukunftsperspektiven. (Heidelberger Symposion zum hundertsten Geburtstag 1986) Heidelberg, Winter; pp.273 -287;
- 1990 "Die Rankengttin." ("The Vine Goddess") in: PANTHEON, International Annual Art Journal, XLVIII, 1990, pp.4-27, 198;
- 1991 "In Search of Carl Strehlow: Lutheran Missionary and Australian Anthropologist." in: From Berlin to Burdekin. The German contribution to the development of Australian science, exploration and the arts. (eds.) David Walker and Jrgen Tampke, University of New South Wales Press; 108-134, 246/7;
- 1991 "Strehlow, Carl Friedrich Theodor", in: Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.12, Melbourne University Press, 1991; 121-122;
- 1992 " `In Australia, we read it differently ...': Interculturality and the theory of literary criticism." in: S.Gunew et al. (ed.) Striking Chords. Multicultural literary Interpretations; pp.129-145.
- 1992 "Argumentatio", in W.Jens et al. (eds.) in: Historisches Wrterbuch der Rhetorik, Tbingen: Niemeyer; Vol.1, 904-914;
- 1993 "Deficits and Taboos in the Intellectual Discussion of the New Europe", in: Meanjin Special Issue: "Intellectuals in Europe"; 52,1;31-47;
- 1993 "Interkulturelle Deutschlandstudien als Europastudien. Konzeptentwicklung unter sich wandelnden politischen und kulturellen Bedingungen." (Intercultural German Studies as European Studies. Conceptual developments in changing political and cultural conditions.) In: B.Thum & G.F.Fink (eds.), Praxis Interkultureller Germanistik. Research - Education - Politics. Munich: iudicium, 1-17;
- 1994 "Arbeit. Ein geistesgeschichtlicher berblick." in: Ernesto Grassi and Hugo Schmale (eds.) Arbeit und Gelassenheit. Zwei Grundformen des Umgangs mit der Natur. Mnchen: Fink 1994; 57-84;
- 1994 "Carl Strehlow, Ethnologist. The Arunta and Aranda Tribes in Australian Ethnology." in: Trevor R.Finlayson & Gabrielle L.McMullen (eds.) The Australian Experience of Germany. Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Humboldt Fellows. Melbourne: Monash PS 1994; 77-100;
- 1996 "Critica radicale della ragione - o l'altro rispetto alla ragione: La sfida della retorica." In: Emilio Hidalgo-Serna and Massimo Marassi (eds.) Studi in onore di Ernesto Grassi. 2 vols. Napoli: La citt del sole, vol.1,99-126;
- 1996 "Frage - Quaestio - Question" in Historisches Wrterbuch der Rhetorik,(eds.) G.Ueding; Tbingen: Niemeyer; vol 3, 420-445;
- 1996 "Selbstverwirklichung, Entsagung und Verwandtes." in Ursula Brucks, Michael Schdlbauer and Elisabeth Strowick (eds.) Metamorphosen der Arbeit. Reflexionen der Arbeitspsychologie. (Festschrift fr Hugo Schmale) Mnchen: Finck Verlag 1996, 303-327;
- 1996 "The Meaning(s) of Comparative Literature" in Paolo Bartoloni (ed.) Re-claiming Diversity: Essays on Comparative Literature. Melbourne: La Trobe University; pp.23-28.
- 1997 "The Portuguese in the Pacific: Myth and Reality." in: Voyages in Literature - A Viagem na Literatura. (Estudos Gerais da Arrabida - Conferencias do Convento 1), (ed.) Maria Alzira Seixo, Lisboa: Publicates Europa-America, 1997; 195-230.
- 1997 "Misunderstanding as Condition of Intercultural Understanding." in: Cultural Dialogue & Misreading, (eds.) Mabel Lee & Meng Hua, Sydney: Wild Peony Press (University of Sydney World Literature Series 1) 1997; 163-174.
- 1997 "A genealogy of work: tracing the past", in: (ed.) W.Veit, P.James & St. Wright, Work of the Future: Global Perspectives. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997; 23-41.
- 1998 "Deductio - Inductio" in Historisches Wrterbuch der Rhetorik, (ed.) G.Ueding Tbingen: Niemeyer, vol 4, 351-373.
- 1998 "From Queiroz' Terra del Espirit Santo to colonial empires in the Pacific: Missionary voyages and their ideologies." in Les Rcit de Voyage: Typologie, Historicit, (eds.) Maria Alzira Seixo& Graa Abreu; Lisbon: Edioes Cosmos, pp.45-76.
- 1998 "Comparative Literature and an intercultural history of Australian literature. A modest proposal." In: (eds.) Brian Edwards & Wenche Ommundsen, Appreciating Difference. Writing postcolonial literary history. Geelong: Deakin University Press; pp.91-108.
- 1999 "Australien, Deutschland, Europa. Bedingungen und Konturen interkultureller Deutschland-Studien als Europastudien: die australische Sicht." In Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Intercultural German Studies.(ed.) Alois Wierlacher; Mnchen: iudicium; vol. 25 (1999), 247-272.
- 1999 "Comparative Literature, Interculturality and the History of Australian Literature." In: Steven Ttsy de Zepetnek and Milan V. Dimi? with Irene Sywenky (eds.) Comparative Literature Now:Theories and Practice. - La Littrature Compare l'heure actuelle: Thories et Ralisations. Paris: Champion 1999, pp.425-437.
- 2000 "The Antipodes: The Alter Ego of Europe. Understanding of the Self in Face of the Other." In: Literatura e Pluralidade Cultural. Lisboa: Edioes Colibri, 1999; 727-746.
- 2000 "Selbstverwirklichung, Entsagung und der Orient." In: (ed.) Ortrud Gutjahr, Weststlicher und Nordsdlicher Divan. Paderborn: Schningh, 2000, 89-107.
- 2000 "Rhetorik als Argumentationstheorie. Das philosophische Problem der Vorwissenschaftlichkeit am Beispiel der Rhetorik." In: Thomas Schirren and Gerd Ueding (eds.) Topik und Rhetorik. Tbingen: Niemeyer. (Rhetorik-Forschungen, Bd. 13) pp.445-458.
- 2001 "Baldwin Spencer und Carl Strehlow, ein Anthropologe und ein Missionar in Zentral-Australien." In: Biographies au pluriel. Interculturalit, couples, mise en scne: langue - littrature - socit.(eds.) Thomas Keller & Freddy Raphal. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg;pp.15-34.
- 2002 "Goethe's Phantasies of the Orient: European Exoticism and the Orient." In: Eighteenth-Century Life vol.26.3 p.165-181.
- 2002 "The Ancient and the Modern: The Topos of Change," in D. Buchbinder (ed.) Star Trek & Endgame. Millennial Politics and Narrative Images.(Fremantle: Black Swan Press 2002) pp.8-22.
- 2002 "The East in Goethe's Poetry," in P.Mildonian, M.A.Seixo, L.C.Martins (eds.) La Porta d'Oriente: Viaggi e Poesia - A Porta do Oriente: Viagens e Poesia. Lisboa: Edies Cosmos; pp.73-92.
- 2003"Australische Germanistik auf dem Wege zu interkulturellen Deutschland- und Europastudien." In Wierlacher, A.(ed.) Handbuch interkultureller Germanistik, Tbingen: Metzler 2003 pp.595-602.
- 2004 "Topics and the Discovery of the New." In: Jrgen Fohrmann (ed.) Rhetorik, Figuration und Performanz. Stuttgart: Metzler; 59-80.
- 2004 "Labourers in the Vineyard or The Uneducated Missionary." In: Michael Cawthorn (ed.) Traditions in the midst of change.Communities, cultures and the Strehlow legacy in Central Australia. Northern Territory Government: Strehlow Research Centre 2004, 136-150.
- 2004 "Social Anthropology versus Cultural Anthropology: Baldwin Walter Spencer and Carl Friedrich Strehlow in Central Australia." In Walter Veit (ed.) The Struggle for Souls and Science. Constructing the Fifth Continent: German Missionaries and Scientists. Occasional Paper Number 3 Northern Territory Government: Strehlow Research Centre. Alice Springs. 2004, 92-110.