Staff A-Z

Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Address
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 S04 H08
Phone
+49 201 183 3427
Fax
+49 201 183 3542
E-Mail
jens.gurr@uni-due.de
Website
https://www.uni-due.de/balc/gurr_jens
Office hours
WS 24/25: Mi. 12:00 Uhr-13:00 Uhr

Functions

  • Universitätsprofessor/in, Anglistik: Britische und Anglophone Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft - British and Anglophone Literature and Culture

The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.

    Journal articles

  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Das Ruhrgebiet als Herausforderung für Kategorien und Ansätze der Stadtforschung
    In: Derivé - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung (2015) Nr. 58, pp. 23 - 26
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    'Urbane Systeme', die Geisteswissenschaften und die Metropole Ruhr : Interdisziplinäre Metropolenforschung vor der Haustür und in aller Welt
    In: Unikate: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre (2010) Nr. 38: Geistes-/Gesellschaftswissenschaften : Beiträge zur "Ruhr 2010", pp. 8 - 17
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Butler, Martin
    The Poetics and Politics of Metafiction: Reading Paul Auster's "Travels in the Scriptorium"
    In: English Studies Vol. 89 (2008) Nr. 2, pp. 195 - 209
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Functions of Intertextuality and Metafiction in J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man"
    In: Anglistik Vol. 18 (2007) Nr. 1, pp. 95 - 112
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Zweierlei Entdeckungen: Verdrängte kanadische Geschichte als Familiengeschichte im Werk von George Elliott Clarke"
    In: Flandziu, Halbjahresschrift für Literatur und Kultur der Moderne der Internationalen Wolfgang-Köppen-Gesellschaft (2007) Nr. 5, pp. 131 - 143
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Conference Report: 'British and European Romanticisms', 11th International Conference of the Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik, Munich, Oct. 2005"
    In: Anglistik Vol. 17 (2006) Nr. 1, pp. 221 - 224
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Geschichte(n) erzählen: Zeitstrukturen und narrative Sinnstiftung in Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy zwischen Aufklärungs- und Metahistorie"
    In: Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, Themenheft Kulturen der Zeitlichkeit Vol. 30 (2006) Nr. 2, pp. 193 - 206
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Postmodernism in the 18th Century?: Enlightenment Intellectual Contexts and the Roots of 20th-Century Concerns in Tristram Shandy"
    In: RSÉAA XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d'Études Anglo-Américaines des XVII et XVIII Siècles Vol. 63 (2006) pp. 19 - 40
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "'Let me suppose thee for a Ship a-while': Nautical Metaphors and Contemporary Politics in Eighteenth-Century Translations of Horace's 'Ode I, xiv'"
    In: Swift Studies Vol. 20 (2005) pp. 70 - 81
  • Gassenmeier, Michael; Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Statik+Mechanik+Ballistik=Komposition oder Literatur als Technikfolgenkompensation in Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy"
    In: Literatur für Leser Vol. 21 (1998) Nr. 2, pp. 107 - 120
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "'Bad is the world and all will come to nought': History and Morality in More's and Shakespeare's Richard III"
    In: Litteraria Pragensia (1997) Nr. 7, pp. 51 - 78
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "'Now more than ever seems it rich to die': Morbidity and English Romanticism in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus"
    In: LWU Vol. 30 (1997) Nr. 4, pp. 287 - 297

    • Prefaces/Postfaces

  • Klein, Norman M.; Gurr, Jens Martin
    Introduction
    In: Norman M. Klein's "Bleeding Through": An Updated Edition 20 Years Later / Gurr, Jens Martin (Eds.) (2023) pp. 7 - 10
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Parr, Rolf; Hardt, Dennis
    Introduction
    In: Metroplitan Research: Methods and Approaches / Gurr, Jens Martin; Parr, Rolf; Hardt, Dennis (Eds.) (2022) pp. 9 - 13
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)

    • Reviews

  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Mihaela Irimia and Andreea Paris (eds.). Literature and the Long Modernity. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 176. New York/Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014, 399 pp., € 86.00.
    In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology = Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Vol. 133 (2015) Nr. 4, pp. 770 - 773
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Marina McKay, Modernism and World War II
    In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology = Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Vol. 127 (2010) Nr. 2, pp. 385 - 389
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Franziska Schmitt, Method in the Fragments: Fragmentarische Strategien in der englischen und deutschen Romantik
    In: Anglistik Vol. 18 (2007) Nr. 2, pp. 213 - 217
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Dirk Vanderbeke, Theoretische Welten und literarische Transformationen: Die Naturwissenschaften im Spiegel der 'science studies' und der englischen Literatur des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts
    In: Anglistik Vol. 16 (2005) Nr. 1, pp. 173 - 176
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Stefan Glomb & Stefan Horlacher (Hrsg.), Beyond Extremes: Repräsentation und Reflexion von Modernisierungsprozessen im zeitgenössischen britischen Roman
    In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology = Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Vol. 123 (2005) Nr. 4, pp. 765 - 768
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Michael Tratner, Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats
    In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology = Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Vol. 117 (1999) Nr. 2, pp. 297 - 302
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Doris Bachmann-Medick (Hrsg.), Übersetzung als Repräsentation fremder Kulturen
    In: Translation and Literature Vol. 7 (1998) Nr. 1, pp. 137 - 139
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Julian Wolfreys and William Baker (eds.), Literary Theories: A Case Study in Critical Performance
    In: LWU Vol. 30 (1997) Nr. 4, pp. 361 - 362

    • Book articles / Proceedings papers

  • Sulimma, Maria; Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    City Scripts in Urban Literary and Cultural Studies
    In: City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures / Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin; Sulimma, Maria (Eds.) 2023, pp. 1 - 24
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Montage and Superposition : The Poetics and Politics of Urban Memory in Bleeding Through; Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986
    In: Norman M. Klein's "Bleeding Through": An Updated Edition 20 Years Later / Gurr, Jens Martin (Eds.) 2023, pp. 57 - 96
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767)
    In: Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century / Berndt, Katrin; Johns, Alessa (Eds.) 2022, pp. 311 - 326
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Palimpsest
    In: The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies / Ameel, Lieven (Eds.) 2022, pp. 72 - 86
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Gönsch, Jochen; Gurr, Jens Martin
    Urban Modelling : Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
    In: Metroplitan Research: Methods and Approaches / Gurr, Jens Martin; Parr, Rolf; Hardt, Dennis (Eds.) 2022, pp. 325 - 342
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Scripts" in Urban Development : Procedural Knowledge, Self-Description and Persuasive Blueprint for the Future
    In: Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City / Gurr, Jens Martin (Eds.) 2021, pp. 141 - 163
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Parr, Rolf
    Media, memory and the City : Introduction
    In: andererseits: Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies / Donahue, William Collins; Mein, Georg; Parr, Rolf (Eds.) 2021, pp. 185 - 187
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    On the textuality of American cities and their others : a disputation
    In: Projecting American studies: essays on theory, method, and practice / Kelleter, Frank; Starre, Alexander (Eds.) 2018, pp. 135 - 152
  • Gurr, Jens
    B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969)
    In: Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / Reinfandt, Christoph (Eds.) 2017, pp. 323 - 364
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  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Schneider, Ute
    Strategien zur Bewältigung urbaner Komplexität : Zum Zusammenwirken visueller, verbaler und quantitativer Modelle
    In: Komplexität und Einfachheit: DFG-Symposion 2015 / Komplexität und Einfachheit, 22. - 25.09.2015, Loveno di Menaggio, Italien / Koschorke, Albrecht (Eds.) 2017, pp. 256 - 275
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Gurr, Jens
    Urban Romanticism
    In: Handbook of British Romanticism / Haekel, Ralf (Eds.) 2017, pp. 88 - 103
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Butler, Martin
    Against the "Erasure of memory" in Los Angeles City planning : Strategies of re-ethnicizing LA in digital fiction
    In: Selling ethnicity: Selling EthniCity: urban cultural politics in the Americas: Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas / Kaltmeier, Olaf / Kaltmeier, Olaf (Eds.) 2016, pp. 145 - 163
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    City scripts : urban American studies and the conjunction of textual strategies and spatial processes
    In: Urban transformations in the U.S.A. :: spaces, communities, representations / Sattler, Julia (Eds.) 2016, pp. 395 - 420
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Moebus, Susanne; Tran, Minh-Chau; Gurr, Jens Martin
    Healthy and Liveable Cities : gebaute Umwelt, Wahrnehmungsmuster räumlicher Bedingungen und Gesundheit in Metropolregionen - Beispiel Ruhrgebiet
    In: Forschen und Lehren mit der Gesellschaft: Community-Based Research and Service Learning an Hochschulen / Altenschmidt, Karsten; Stark, Wolfgang (Eds.) 2016, pp. 121 - 137
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    The senses and human nature in a political reading of Paradise Lost
    In: The five senses in medieval and early modern England / Kern-Stähler, Annette; Busse, Beatrix; De Boer, Wietse (Eds.) 2016, pp. 177 - 195
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Zur literarischen Modellierung von Urbanität und urbaner Komplexität : Literaturwissenschaft im Kontext disziplinenübergreifender Stadtforschung
    In: Urbanität: Formen der Inszenierung in Texten, Karten, Bildern / Schneider, Ute; Stercken, Martina (Eds.) 2016, pp. 193 - 208
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Fragments as failed texts : conceptual problems in Thomas More's "History of King Richard III" and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Philosophical View of Reform"
    In: Fiasko - Scheitern in der frühen Neuzeit: Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Misserfolgs / Brakensiek, Stefan; Claridge, Claudia (Eds.) 2015, pp. 85 - 110
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    The modernist poetics of urban memory and the structural analogies between 'City' and 'Text' : "The Waste Land" and Benjamin's "Arcades Project"
    In: Recovery and transgression: memory in American poetry / Freitag, Kornelia (Eds.) 2015, pp. 21 - 37
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    'Urban Complexity' from a Literary and Cultural Studies Perspective : Key Cultural Dimensions and the Challenges of 'Modeling'
    In: Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Modeling / Walloth, Christian; Gurr, Jens Martin; Schmidt, J. Alexander (Eds.) 2014, pp. 133 - 150
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Conceptualizing the Field of Identity Politics in the Americas : Lessons from the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy
    In: New world colors: ethnicity, belonging, and difference in the Americas / Raab, Josef (Eds.) 2014, pp. 385 - 400
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Die Komplexität der Stadt erzählen: Die Untersuchung literarischer Modellierung urbaner Komplexität im Kontext disziplinenübergreifender Stadtforschung
    In: Metropolen: Politik - Kultur - Imagination / Gaidolfi, Susanna; Hirschmüller, Tobias; Wenzl, Gerhard; Wiedemann, Julia (Eds.) 2014, pp. 99 - 129
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Walloth, Christian
    Introduction: Towards a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Complex Urban Systems
    In: Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Modeling / Walloth, Christian; Gurr, Jens Martin; Schmidt, J. Alexander (Eds.) 2014, pp. 1 - 12
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Poetic genres in the Augustan Age : Jonathan Swift and Verse Satire
    In: A history of British poetry: genres - developments - interpretations / Baumbach, Sibylle; Neumann, Birgit; Nünning, Ansgar (Eds.) 2014, pp. 167 - 180
  • Butler, Martin; Gurr, Jens Martin
    Urbane Populärkultur als Bewertungspraxis und -ressource : zum normativen Potential populärkultureller Inszenierung und diskursiver Aneignung urbaner Räume
    In: Place-Making in urbanen Diskursen / Warnke, Ingo H.; Busse, Beatrix (Eds.) 2014, pp. 369 - 384
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    When China's Trade all Europe Overflows: Edward Young's Naval Lyrics, Critical (Mis)Fortune, and the Discourses of Naval Power, Trade, and Globalisation
    In: Navigating cultural spaces: maritime places / Horatschek, Anna-Margaretha (Eds.) 2014, pp. 83 - 102
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Without contraries is no progression" - Emplotted Figures of Thought in Negotiating Oppositions, Funktionsgeschichte and Literature as 'Cultural Diagnosis'
    In: Text or context: reflections on literary and cultural criticism / Kunow, Rüdiger; Mussil, Stephan (Eds.) 2013, pp. 59 - 77
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    By Way of Introduction : Towards Urban Romantic Studies
    In: Romantic cityscapes: selected papers from the Essen Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism / Essen Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism, 2013 / Gurr, Jens Martin; Michel, Berit (Eds.) 2013, pp. 7 - 18
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Kaltmeier, Olaf
    Conflicting Constructions of Cross-Border Regional Identities in the Cascadia Region (Seattle/Vancouver)
    In: Transnational Americas: envisioning Inter-American area studies in globalization processes / Kaltmeier, Olaf (Eds.) 2013, pp. 35 - 54
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Lost in Translation (2003 ) , Sofia Coppola (dir.)
    In: Film : Part II / Peters, Susanne; Stierstorfer, Klaus; Vanderbeke, Dirk; Volkmann, Laurenz (Eds.) 2013, pp. 463 - 479
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Butler, Martin
    On the 'cultural dimension of sustainability' in urban systems : urban cultures as ecological 'force-fields' in processes of sustainable development
    In: Gesunde und lebenswerte Städte: Profilschwerpunkt "Urbane Systeme" der Universität Duisburg-Essen / Tagung "Gesunde und lebenswerte Städte: interdisziplinäre Perspektiven" ... der Universität Duisburg-Essen ... im November 2010 / Caeners, Stefanie; Eisinger, Michael; Gurr, Jens Martin; Schmidt, J. Alexander (Eds.) 2013, pp. 138 - 151
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Dung, guts and blood" : Stadt- und Aufklärungskritik in Jonathan Swifts London-Dichtung
    In: Hygiene und Kultur / Ingensiep, Hans Werner; Popp, Walter (Eds.) 2012, pp. 123 - 154
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Butler, Martin
    On the 'cultural dimension of sustainability' in urban systems : urban cultures as ecological 'force-fields' in processes of sustainable development
    In: Generative process, patterns, and the urban challenge: Fall 2011 International PUARL Conference / International PUARL Conference, Portland, OR, United States of America, 28th to 30th October 2011 / Neis, Hansjoachim; Brown, Gabriel; Gurr, Jens Martin; Schmidt, J. Alexander (Eds.) 2012, pp. 77 - 86
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Butler, Martin
    Against the 'Erasure of Memory' in Los Angeles City Planning : Strategies of Re-Ethnicizing L.A. in Digital Fiction
    In: Selling EthniCity: Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas / Kaltmeier, Olaf (Eds.) 2011, pp. 145 - 163
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Raussert, Wilfried
    Introduction
    In: Cityscapes in the Americas and beyond: representations of urban complexity in literature and film / Gurr, Jens Martin; Raussert, Wilfried (Eds.) 2011, pp. 1 - 10
  • Butler, Martin; Gurr, Jens Martin; Kaltmeier, Olaf
    Introduction : on the intersection between urban environments and ethnic identities in the Americas
    In: EthniCities: metropolitan cultures and ethnic identities in the Americas / Butler, Martin; Gurr, Jens Martin; Kaltmeier, Olaf (Eds.) 2011, pp. 1 - 12
  • Claridge, Claudia; Gurr, Jens Martin; Vanderbeke, Dirk
    Language , Literature and Culture in the 17th Century : Introduction
    In: Proceedings / Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken / Frenk, Joachim; Steveker, Lena (Eds.) 2011, pp. 221 - 226
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    The Literary Representation of Urban Complexity and the Problem of Simultaneity : A Sketchy Inventory of Strategies
    In: Cityscapes in the Americas and beyond: representations of urban complexity in literature and film / Gurr, Jens Martin; Raussert, Wilfried (Eds.) 2011, pp. 11 - 36
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    The Politics of Representation in Hypertext DocuFiction : Multi-Ethnic Los Angeles as an Emblem of 'America' in Norman M. Klein's "Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles 1920-1986"
    In: Screening the Americas: Narration of Nation in Documentary Film / Proyectando las Américas: Narración de la nación en el cine documental / Raab, Josef; Thies, Sebastian; Noll-Opitz, Daniela (Eds.) 2011, pp. 253 - 271
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Bourdieu, Capital and the Postcolonial Marketplace
    In: Commodifying (post)colonialism: othering, reification, commodification and the new literatures and cultures in English / Emig, Rainer; Lindner, Oliver (Eds.) 2010, pp. 3 - 19
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Emplotting an Ecosystem : Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide" as an Eco-Narrative
    In: Local natures, global responsibilities: ecocritical perspectives on the new English literatures / Volkmann, Laurenz; Grimm, Nancy; Detmers, Ines; Thomson, Katrin (Eds.) 2010, pp. 69 - 80
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    The Enlightening Powers of Night : Nocturnal Conversions in "The Prelude"
    In: The Enlightenment by Night: Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century / Soupel, Serge; Cope, Kevin L.; Pettit, Alexander (Eds.) 2010, pp. 379 - 399
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    The taboo of revolutionary thought after 1660 and strategies of subversion in Milton's "Paradise lost" and Bunyan's "The holy war"
    In: Taboo and transgression in British literature from the Renaissance to the Present / Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; Heiler, Lars (Eds.) 2010, pp. 99 - 116
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Urbanity, Urban Culture and the European Metropolis
    In: Britannien und Europa: Studien zur Literatur- Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte. Festschrift für Jürgen Klein / Szczekall, Michael (Eds.) 2010, pp. 241 - 255
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Worshipping cloacina in the Eighteenth Century : Functions of scatology in Swift, Pope, Gay and Sterne
    In: Taboo and transgression in British literature from the Renaissance to the Present / Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; Heiler, Lars (Eds.) 2010, pp. 117 - 134
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Shakey's 40 Years of Zigzag: Neil Young between Commerce and the Counter-Culture
    In: Sound Fabrics: The Intermedial and Institutional Dimensions of Popular Music / Burger, Patrick; Sepp, Arvi; Butler, Martin (Eds.) 2009
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    The Mass-Slaughter of Native Americans in Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man" : A Complex Interplay of Word and Image
    In: Word & image in colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures / Altnöder, Sonja; Meyer, Michael (Eds.) 2009, pp. 353 - 371
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    The multicultural marketing of urban fiction : temporality, language, genre, and readership(s) in Luis J. Rodriguez's "The Republic of East L.A." and "Music of the Mill"
    In: E Pluribus Unum?: national and transnational identities in the Americas : identidades nacionales y transnacionales en las Américas / Thies, Sebastian; Raab, Josef (Eds.) 2009, pp. 263 - 276
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Philip Roth, "The Human Stain"
    In: Teaching Contemporary Novels, Vol. II / Peters, Susanne; Stierstorfer, Klaus; Volkmann, Laurenz (Eds.) 2008, pp. 443 - 462
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Two 'Romantic' Fragments?: Bürger and Shelley on Revolution"
    In: British and European Romanticisms: Selected Papers from the Munich Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism / Bode, Christoph; Domsch, Sebastian (Eds.) 2007, pp. 239 - 256
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    'Let's impeach the president' : Protest und Ideologie in Neil Youngs "Living With War"
    In: "Da habt Ihr es, das Argument der Straße": kulturwissenschaftliche Studien zum politischen Lied / Butler, Martin; Pointner, Frank-Erik (Eds.) 2007, pp. 207 - 226
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Neue Entwicklungen in der Populärliteratur: Nick Hornby
    In: Handbuch Englischer Roman der Gegenwart: Genres, Entwicklungen, Modellinterpretationen / Nünning, Vera (Eds.) 2007, pp. 181 - 196
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Mark Ravenhill: Mother Clap's Molly House"
    In: Teaching Contemporary Drama / Peters, Susanne; Stierstorfer, Klaus; Volkmann, Laurenz (Eds.) 2006 II, 423 - 440
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "The 'Native' Cites Back: Post-Colonial Theory and the Politics of Jim Jarmusch's Western Dead Man"
    In: Anglistentag 2006 Halle, Proceedings / Volk-Birke, Sabine; Lippert, Julia (Eds.) 2006, pp. 191 - 202
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Morality versus Poetics: Conflicting Evaluations of Sense Perceptions in The Prelude"
    In: Romantik Voices, Romantic Poetics: Selected Papers from the Regensburg Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism / Bode, Christoph; Rennhak, Katharina (Eds.) 2005, pp. 57 - 68
  • Gassenmeier, Michael; Gurr, Jens Martin
    Burke's Conservatism and its Echoes on the Continent and in the United States
    In: Non-Fictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders / Sondrup, Stephen P.; Nemoianu, Virgil (Eds.) 2004, pp. 117 - 139
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Charles Percy Snow"
    In: Metzler Lexikon englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren / Kreutzer, Eberhard; Nünning, Ansgar (Eds.) 2002, pp. 542
  • Gassenmeier, Michael; Gurr, Jens Martin
    The Experience of the City in British Romantic Poetry
    In: Romantic Poetry / Esterhammer, Angela (Eds.) 2002, pp. 305 - 331
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "James Thurber: 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'"
    In: Amerikanische Short Stories des 20. Jahrhunderts / Hanke, Michael (Eds.) 1998, pp. 36 - 43
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Peter Taylor: 'Promise of Rain'"
    In: Amerikanische Short Stories des 20. Jahrhunderts / Hanke, Michael (Eds.) 1998, pp. 122 - 129
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Shelley's Misreading of Aeschylus' Prometheus"
    In: British Romantics as Readers: Intertextualities, Maps of Misreading, Reinterpretations; Festschrift for Horst Meller / Gassenmeier, Michael; Bridzun, Petra; Gurr, Jens Martin; Pointner, Frank-Erik (Eds.) 1998, pp. 71 - 81
  • Gassenmeier, Michael; Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Über das Versagen und die Versagung der Toleranz, oder vom Lernprozeß des entmannten und verkannten Autors in Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"
    In: Toleranz: Das Fremde, Macht, Identität / Fellsches, Josef; Hohmann, Wener L. (Eds.) 1998, pp. 23 - 40

    • Books, Collections, Proceedings

  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Understanding Public Debates : What Literary Studies Can Do
    New York (2024)
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  • Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin; Sulimma, Maria (Eds.)
    City Scripts : Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures
    Columbus (2023) 253 Seiten
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Hoydis, Julia; Bartosch, Roman; Gurr, Jens Martin
    Climate Change Literacy
    In: Elements in Environmental Humanities Cambridge (2023)
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Ameel, Lieven; Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    Narrative in Urban Planning : A Practical Field Guide
    Bielefeld (2023) 146 S.
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin (Eds.)
    Norman M. Klein's "Bleeding Through" : An Updated Edition 20 Years Later
    In: Urban Studies Bielefeld (2023) 199 Seiten
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Parr, Rolf; Hardt, Dennis (Eds.)
    Metroplitan Research : Methods and Approaches
    In: Urban Studies Bielefeld (2022) 385 Seiten
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Charting Literary Urban Studies : Texts as Models of and for the City
    New York (2021) 220 Seiten
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Walloth, Christian; Gurr, Jens Martin (Eds.)
    Understanding complex urban systems : multidisciplinary approaches to modeling
    In: Understanding complex systems Cham (2014) XI, 158 S.
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Michel, Berit (Eds.)
    Romantic cityscapes : selected papers from the Essen Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism
    In: Studien zur englischen Romantik Trier Vol. 12 (2013) 263 S.
  • Neis, Hansjoachim; Brown, Gabriel A.; Gurr, Jens Martin; Schmidt, Alexander; (Eds.)
    Generative process, patterns, and the urban challenge : conference proceedings
    PUARL 2: Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab Symposium: International PUARL Conference: Generative Process, Patterns, and the Urban Challenge , Portland, University of Oregon, Fall 2011,
    Portland (2012) 289 S.
  • Gurr, Jens Martin; Raussert, Wilfried (Eds.)
    Cityscapes in the Americas and beyond : representations of urban complexity in literature andfilm
    In: Inter-American Studies / Estudios Interamericanos Trier Vol. 4 (2011) VII, 291 S.
  • Butler, Martin; Gurr, Jens Martin; Kaltmeier, Olaf (Eds.)
    EthniCities : metropolitan cultures and ethnic identities in the Americas
    In: Inter-American studies Trier Vol. 3 (2011) VII, 259 S.
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    The Human Soul as Battleground: Variations on Dualism and the Self in English Literature
    In: Anglistische Forschungen Heidelberg Vol. 316 (2003) 229 Seiten
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Tristram Shandy and the Dialectic of Enlightenment
    In: Anglistische Forschungen Heidelberg Vol. 269 (1999) 179 Seiten

    • Festschrift

  • Meller, Horst
    Gassenmeier, Michael; Bridzun, Petra; Gurr, Jens Martin; Pointner, Frank; (Eds.)
    British Romantics as Readers : Intertextualities, Maps of Misreading, Reinterpretations ; Festschrift for Horst Meller
    In: Anglistische Forschungen Heidelberg Vol. 258 (1998) 325 S. : Ill.

    • Encyclopedia entries

  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Snow, Charles Percy - Strangers and Brothers
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.) 2009
    Online Full Text
  • Gurr, Jens Martin
    Snow, Charles Percy - The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.) 2009
    Online Full Text

    • Lectures

  • Gurr, Jens Martin;
    Die Komplexität der Stadt erzählen
    Die kleine Form, 26. Juni 2013,
    In: Die kleine Form 2013 (2013)
    Online Full Text
  • Michel, Berit; Gurr, Jens Martin;
    From Urban Complexity to Literary Complexity : How Literary Studies can Contribute to Urban Complexity Research
    Ringvorlesung Urbane Systeme. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, 7th Nov 2012,
    (2012)

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