Background
Grabes, Herbert was born on June 8, 1936 in Krefeld, Germany. Son of Adolf and Elisabeth (Giesen) Grabes.
(This 1982 book was the first major and comprehensive surv...)
This 1982 book was the first major and comprehensive survey of mirror-imagery to be found in medieval book-titles and English literature from the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Working within the tradition of the historical study of metaphor as developed by E. R. Curtius, Professor Grabes not only traces the shifting historical usages of the mirror (as the metaphor's 'vehicle') but also studies the metaphor's structural function in individual works. At the same time, the author addresses himself to the aesthetic problem of originality in literature, and, by investigating the function of a metaphor central to literature over a long period of time, he reveals the interplay between cultural history, the changing attitude towards life and the world, and literary imagination. It represents a substantial contribution to the history of ideas and to the study of iconography, which, by providing a systematic and historical contextualisation of the many varied metaphorical senses of the mirror, will be of particular value to art and literary historians, and cultural philosophers.
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Grabes, Herbert was born on June 8, 1936 in Krefeld, Germany. Son of Adolf and Elisabeth (Giesen) Grabes.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Cologne, Federal Republic Germany, 1963.
Instructor English, U. Detroit, 1959-1960; research assistant, U. Cologne, 1962-1965; research assistant, U. Mannheim, 1966-1969; dozent, U. Mannheim, 1969-1970; Professor of English, U. Giessen, Federal Republic Germany, since 1970; vice president, U. Giessen, Federal Republic Germany, 1979-1981; director, Institute für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Giessen, since 1970.
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Member International Association University professors English, Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Anglistentag, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft.
Married Hannelore Koch, March 2, 1962. Children: Arnd, Oliver, Irene.