{"id":2182,"date":"2020-05-26T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2182"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:20:18","slug":"peter-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/profile\/peter-schwartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Schwartz teaches courses in German and comparative literature and in film. His special interests include the Enlightenment (as historical event and unfinished process), European neoclassicism and modernism, American, French, Dutch and Japanese literature, early film and photography, the critical work of the Frankfurt School, literary and musical folk genres, visual propaganda, and the \u201cscience of culture\u201d (<em>Kulturwissenschaft<\/em>) of the art historian Aby Warburg and his circle.\u00a0 He is the author of\u00a0<em>After Jena: Goethe\u2019s\u00a0Elective Affinities\u00a0and the End of the Old Regime\u00a0<\/em>(Bucknell UP, 2010) and of articles on Goethe and his age, Georg B\u00fcchner, Aby M. Warburg, Michael Haneke, and the Faust tradition in its relation to media history; his most recent publication is an iconographic study of Chinese Communist paper money and Soviet silent film (2014).\u00a0 His complete translation of a classic work of literary genre theory, Andr\u00e9 Jolles\u2019s\u00a0<em>Simple Forms\u00a0<\/em>(1929), was published by Verso Books (London) in February 2017, and he is writing a book about Aby Warburg\u2019s response to the First World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2182\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}