Recent Papers

• '"Noi senza paura": Chi siamo "noi" e quali sono le nostre virtù nel libro quinto della Gaia Scienza?’ University of Pisa, Italy (invited speaker, workshop conference on 'Gaia Scienza V: Dimensione teoretica e comunicazione filosofica'), October 2009.
• 'Nietzsche als Literaturkritiker'. Weimar, Germany (invited speaker, international conference 'Zur geistigen Situation unserer Zeit. 10 Jahre Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche'), October 2009.
• 'Pasenow's Uniform ("Alles in Ordnung")'. Lancaster University (invited speaker, international conference on 'Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers Trilogy: Interpretation and Reception'), July 2009.
• 'Nietzsche als Literaturkritiker'. University of Greifswald, Germany (invited contributor, workshop conference on Nietzsche), June 2009.
• '"Moral Pleasure" in Modern German Thought'. Swansea University (inaugural lecture), February 2009.
• '"The Magic of the Extreme": Hyperbolic Rhetoric in Ecce Homo'. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London (conference 'Nietzsche's Ecce Homo – A Centenary Conference'), November 2008.
• '"Das Werk soll zugleich in allen Sprachen erscheinen": Transvaluation and Translation'. CRASSH, University of Cambridge (invited speaker, workshop conference on 'Nietzsche's Transvaluation of Values'), November 2008.
• 'Götzen-Dämmerung and/in Translation'. Schulpforta, Germany (invited speaker, workshop conference on 'Nietzsches Götzen-Dämmerung'), September 2008.
• 'Carl Einstein, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and the Aesthetics of Cubism'. Gregynog Hall, Powys (conference 'Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture'), August 2008.
• 'Nietzsche's Vocabulary of Fate and Fortune'. University of Warwick Department of Philosophy (invited speaker, workshop conference on 'Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Future'), June 2008.
• Invited contributor, international round-table discussion, 'Auf Nietzsches Balkon: Fellows in Residence in Weimar'. Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar, February 2008.
• 'Kleist and Shakespeare'. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London (conference 'Containment and Subversion: The Work and Person of Heinrich von Kleist'), October 2007; Swansea University (German Seminar), November 2007.
• 'Critique of Pure Folly: Intuition and Irrationalism in Wagner's Parsifal'. Goldsmiths, University of London (British Comparative Literature Association Eleventh International Conference, 'Folly'), July 2007.
• 'Early Psychoanalytic Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche'. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London (invited speaker, seminar on 'Psychoanalysis and German Studies'), May 2007.
• 'Nietzsche's Machiavelli'. University of Leiden (Friedrich Nietzsche Society Sixteenth Annual Conference, 'Nietzsche, Power and Politics'), March 2007.
• 'Psychoanalysis and German Studies'. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London (invited speaker, international workshop conference 'Psychoanalysis and the Humanities'), January 2007.
• 'Nietzsche and/in/on Translation', Washington DC (invited speaker, North American Nietzsche Society panel on 'Nietzsche and Translation', APA Eastern Division meeting), December 2006.
• '"Der brave Bürger von Rouen". Nietzsches Flaubert-Bild', Naumburg (annual conference of the Nietzsche-Gesellschaft, 'Nietzsche & Frankreich'), August 2006.
• 'Nietzsche's Literary Criticism'. New School, New York City (invited speaker, Nietzsche Circle conference on 'Nietzsche and Literature'), April 2006.

Publications

Books and Journal Issues

• Nietzsches Renaissance-Gestalten. Shakespeare, Kopernikus, Luther (Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2009). ISBN 978-3-86068-394-1. 72 pp.
• (ed. and trans.), Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, or How to Become What You Are (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-19-283228-3. xxxviii + 138pp.
• (co-ed. with Keith Ansell Pearson), The Nietzsche Reader (Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2005/6). ISBN 0-631-22653-2 (hbk), 0-631-22654-0 (pbk). xlii + 573 pp.
  • Reviewed: International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 14/4 (2006), 619-20.
• (co-ed. with Robin MacKenzie), New Comparison, 35/36 (Spring/Autumn 2003 - 'Money'). ISSN 0950-5814. 384pp.
• (co-ed. with Rüdiger Görner), Ecce Opus. Nietzsche-Revisionen im 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003). ISBN 3525208308. 240pp.
  • Reviewed: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 8 May 2004 ('Feuilleton', 48); Nietzsche-Studien, 33 (2004), 453-68; Forum for Modern Language Studies, 41/1 (January 2005), 107; German Studies Review, 2005; Modern Language Review, 100/4 (October 2005), 1043-53; Nietzscheforschung, 12 (2005), 337-41.
• Nietzsche and Proust: A Comparative Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001). ISBN 0-19-924227-5, xi + 298 pp.
  • Reviewed: French Studies, 56/3 (July 2002), 420-1; Modern Language Review, 98/1 (January 2003), 268-9; Nietzsche-Studien, 32 (2003), 536-40; Philosophy and Literature, 27/2 (October 2003), 450-55.
• (ed. and trans.), Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). ISBN 0-19-283138-0. xlii + 124pp.
• (ed.), Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 13 (Spring 1997: 'Nietzsche and German Literature'). ISSN 0968-8005. 97pp.
• (ed. and trans.), Sarah Kofman, Nietzsche and Metaphor (London: Athlone Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993). UK ISBN 0-485-12098-4; US ISBN 0804721866. xlvi + 239pp.
  • Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, 1994.
  • Reviewed: Philosophy and Literature, 19/1 (April 1995), 153-4; Colloquia Germanica, 29/2 (1996), 175-80; Radical Philosophy, 78 (July/August 1996); The Philosophical Quarterly, 46/185 (October 1996), 553-4.
  • Bibliography partially reprinted in German as 'Arbeiten zu Nietzsche von Sarah Kofman (1934-1994)', Nietzsche-Studien, 25 (1996), 445-48.
  • Bibliography reprinted in French as 'Sarah Kofman: bibliographie complète, 1963-1993', Les Cahiers du Grif, nouvelle série, 3 (1997), 176-89.
  • Revised and updated bibliography reprinted as 'Sarah Kofman: Bibliography, 1963-1998', in Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman, ed. Penelope Deutscher and Kelly Oliver (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999), pp. 264-75.

Articles and Chapters

• 'A Note on the Term Umwerthung', Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 39 (Spring 2010), 5-11.
• 'Carl Einstein, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and the Aesthetics of Cubism', in Brigid Haines, Stephen Parker and Colin Riordan (eds), Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture: Festschrift in Honour of Rhys W. Williams (Oxford and Berne: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 11-23.
• 'Götzen-Dämmerung from the Perspective of Translation Studies', Nietzscheforschung, 16 (2009), 151-60.
• '"Der brave Bürger von Rouen". Nietzsches Flaubert-Bild', in Auf Nietzsches Balkon. Philosophische Beiträge aus der Villa Silberblick, ed. Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály (Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2009), pp. 86-95.
• 'On the Genealogy of Moral Pleasure', German Life and Letters, 62/3 (July 2009), 255-69.
• 'Ernährung', in Wagner und Nietzsche: Kultur - Werk - Wirkung. Ein Handbuch, ed. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, H. James Birx and Nikolaus Knoepffler (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2008), pp. 288-96.
• '"The Question of Art": Sarah Kofman's Aesthetics', in Sarah Kofman's Corpus, ed. Tina Chanter and Pleshette DeArmitt (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008), pp. 11-21.
• 'Wolf Man, Overman: "Nachträglichkeit" in Freud and Nietzsche', New Nietzsche Studies, 6/3-4 (Fall 2005) & 7/1-2 (Spring 2006), 83-96.
• 'Nietzsche's "Deaf Spot": The Music of the Renaissance in Italy', in Bejahende Erkenntnis. Festschrift für T. J. Reed zu seiner Emeritierung am 30. September 2004, ed. Kevin F. Hilliard, Ray Ockenden and Nigel F. Palmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004), pp. 105-16.
• 'Frets about Plagiary: Changing Attitudes towards Plagiarism in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature', Publications of the English Goethe Society, 73 (2004), 3-17.
• 'Nietzsche's Conceptual Chemistry', in Nietzsche and Science, ed. Gregory Moore and Thomas H. Brobjer (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 189-96.
• '"Sterne-Bilder": Sterne in the German-Speaking World', in The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe, ed. Peter de Voogd and John Neubauer (London and New York: Continuum, 2004), pp. 68-84, 288-96.
• 'Derived Lives, Received Opinions: Parodic Plagiarism in Sterne and Hoffmann', New Comparison, 35/36 (Spring/Autumn 2003), 66-77.
• 'Index of Articles Published in New Comparison, 1986-2003', New Comparison, 35/36 (Spring/Autumn 2003), 363-84.
• '"Zerfall der Werte": Nietzsche, Broch, Nihilism', in Ecce Opus. Nietzsche-Revisionen im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Rüdiger Görner and Duncan Large (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003), pp. 65-82.
• '"Der Bauernaufstand des Geistes": Nietzsche, Luther and the Reformation', in Nietzsche and the German Tradition, ed. Nicholas Martin (Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 111-37.
• 'Nietzsche's Use of Biblical Language', Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 22 (Autumn 2001), 88-115.
• 'Epiphany in German Literature and Music', New Comparison, 31 (Spring 2001), 150-4.
• 'Goethe, Sterne and the Question of Plagiarism', in Goethe at 250: London Symposium / Goethe mit 250. Londoner Symposium, ed. T. J. Reed, Martin Swales and Jeremy Adler (Munich: iudicium, 2000), pp. 85-108.
• 'The Aristocratic Radical and the White Revolutionary: Nietzsche's Bismarck', in Das schwierige neunzehnte Jahrhundert. Germanistische Tagung zum 65. Geburtstag von Eda Sagarra im August 1998, ed. Jürgen Barkhoff, Gilbert Carr and Roger Paulin (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000), pp. 101-16.
• '"Our Greatest Teacher": Nietzsche, Burckhardt, and the Concept of Culture', International Studies in Philosophy, 32/3 (Summer 2000), 3-23.
  • Brazilian Portuguese trans. (by Fernando R. de Moraes Barros) '"Nosso Maior Mestre": Nietzsche, Burckhardt e o conceito de cultura', Cadernos Nietzsche [São Paulo], 9 (September 2000), 3-39.
• 'Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844-1900' and 'Parsifal: Wagner/Nietzsche Debate', in Encyclopedia of German Literature, ed. Matthias Konzett (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), II, 762-6 and 971-2.
• 'Nietzsche's Shakespearean Figures', in Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, ed. Alan D. Schrift (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 45-65.
• 'Hermes contra Dionysus: Michel Serres's Critique of Nietzsche', in Nietzsche and the Sciences, II: Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science, ed. Babette E. Babich and Robert S. Cohen (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999), pp. 151-9.
• 'Kofman's Hoffmann', in Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman, ed. Penelope Deutscher and Kelly Oliver (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999), pp. 67-83.
• 'Chemical Solutions: Scientific Paradigms in Nietzsche and Proust', in The Third Culture: Literature and Science, ed. Elinor Shaffer (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 217-36.
• 'Hermès contre Dionysos (Serres et Nietzsche)', Horizons philosophiques, 8/1 (Automne 1997), 23-39.
• 'Nietzsche's Helmbrecht, or: How to Philosophise with a Ploughshare', Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 13 (Spring 1997), 3-22.
• 'Nietzsche and the Figure of Copernicus: Grande Fantaisie on Polish Airs', New Readings, 2 (1996), 65-87.
• '"The Freest Writer": Nietzsche on Sterne', The Shandean, 7 (November 1995), 9-29.
• 'Double "Whaam!": Sarah Kofman on Ecce Homo', German Life and Letters, 48/4 (October 1995), 441-62.
• 'Nietzsche and the Figure of Columbus', Nietzsche-Studien, 24 (1995), 162-83.
• 'Bibliography', in Peter Schneider, ed. Colin Riordan (Cardiff: University of Wales Press ('Contemporary German Writers'), 1995), pp. 106-33.
• 'On "Untimeliness": Temporal Structures in Nietzsche, or: "The Day After Tomorrow Belongs to Me"', Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 8 (Autumn 1994), 33-53.
• 'Proust on Nietzsche: The Question of Friendship', Modern Language Review, 88/3 (July 1993), 612-24.
• 'Experimenting with Experience: Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften', in The German Novel in the Twentieth Century: Beyond Realism, ed. David Midgley (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New York: St Martin's Press, 1993), pp. 110-27.
• 'Studied Indifference: A Modernist Topos in Nietzsche, Proust and Musil', New Comparison, 15 (Spring 1993), 62-86.
• 'On the Use of the Negative in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften', Musil-Forum, 17/18 (1991/92), 38-66.
• '"Geschaffene Menschen": The Necessity of the Literary Self in Nietzsche, Musil and Proust', Neohelicon, 17/2 (1990), 43-60.

Translated Articles

• Friedrich Nietzsche, 'Notes from 1881' and 'European Nihilism (1887)', in The Nietzsche Reader, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson and Duncan Large (Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2005/6), pp. 238-41, 385-9.
• Sarah Kofman, 'The Imposture of Beauty: The Uncanniness of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray', in Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman, ed. Penelope Deutscher and Kelly Oliver (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999), pp. 25-48.
• Jean-Luc Nancy, 'Heidegger's "Originary Ethics"', Studies in Practical Philosophy, 1/1 (1999), 12-35. Reprinted in Heidegger and Practical Philosophy, ed. François Raffoul and David Pettigrew (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002), pp. 65-85; reprinted in Jean-Luc Nancy, A Finite Thinking, ed. Simon Sparks (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 172-95.
• Mazzino Montinari, 'Enlightenment and Revolution: Nietzsche and Late Goethe', Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 13 (Spring 1997), 23-29.
• Sarah Kofman, 'Accessories (Ecce Homo, 'Why I Write Such Good Books', 'The Untimelies', 3)', in Nietzsche: A Critical Reader, ed. Peter Sedgwick (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), pp. 144-57.
• Sarah Kofman, 'Explosion I: Of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo', Diacritics, 24/4 (Winter 1994), 51-70. Reprinted in Nietzsche: Critical Assessments, ed. Daniel W. Conway, 4 vols (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), I, 218-41.

Review Articles and Reviews

• Philip Payne, Graham Bartram and Galin Tihanov (eds), A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil, Musil-Forum, 30 (2007/2008), 308-14.
• Manfred Pfister, Laurence Sterne; Joachim Blum, 'Things' und 'Opinions' in 'Tristram Shandy', The Shandean, 13 (2002), 137-40.
• 'Recent Studies of Musil', Austrian Studies, 7 (1996), 181-6.
• Bernd Magnus, Stanley Stewart and Jean-Pierre Mileur, Nietzsche's Case: Philosophy as/and Literature, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 9/10 (Spring-Autumn 1995), 193-94.
• Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, trans. Carol Diethe, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 9/10 (Spring-Autumn 1995), 192.
• Christopher Collins, The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination, New Comparison, 19 (Spring 1995), 195-96.
• George J. Stack, Nietzsche and Emerson: An Elective Affinity, New Comparison, 19 (Spring 1995), 198-99.
• James Whitlark, Behind the Great Wall: A Post-Jungian Approach to Kafkaesque Literature, New Comparison, 19 (Spring 1995), 199-200.
• (with Steven Vine) Harvey Birenbaum, Between Blake and Nietzsche: The Reality of Culture, Modern Language Review, 90/1 (January 1995), 241-42.
• Dieter Lamping, Lichtenbergs literarisches Nachleben. Eine Rezeptions-Geschichte, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 17/2 (Autumn 1994), 241-42.
• Andrew Webber, Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil, Modern Language Review, 89/3 (July 1994), 800-02.
• Sarah Kofman, Explosion I: De l'"Ecce Homo" de Nietzsche and Explosion II: Les enfants de Nietzsche, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 7 (Spring 1994), 151-54, and 8 (Autumn 1994), 129-34.
• Manfred Moser, Schreiben ohne Ende. Letzte Texte zu Robert Musil, Musil-Forum, 19/20 (1993/94), 367-69.
• Robert Musil, Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses; Hannah Hickman (ed.), Robert Musil and the Literary Landscape of his Time; Claus Erhart, Der ästhetische Mensch bei Robert Musil, Austrian Studies, 4 (1993), 196-98.

Newspaper Articles

• 'There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya...' [article on Nietzsche centenary], The Times Higher Education Supplement, 18 August 2000, 16.
• 'Sarah Kofman' [obituary notice], The Guardian, 2/19, 3 November 1994.
• 'Why a Philosopher's Dream was Twisted' [interview], Western Mail, 14 April 1994, 10.

Further Information
Prof. Large joined the Department as a Lecturer in 1992, having previously taught as a Lecteur at the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) and as a Lecturer in German at Trinity College Dublin. In 2003-4 he spent the Winter Semester as Fellow in Residence at the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche der Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen.