Scott Abbott

Utah Valley University

Professor of Humanities and Philosophy
Professor of Integrated Studies

http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/

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The Landscapes Through Which We Travelled, Open Letters Monthly (2012)

A translation of an homage to Austrian author Peter Handke on his 70th Birthday

Buchstäblich / Literally: New Work by Nina Pops, Essay Booklet Accompanying the Exhibit "Querschnitt" in the Kulturbunker, Cologne, Germany (2012)

An exploration of the possibilities of painting a novel, of producing an abstract response to...

Fixing the Sonosopher, The Sonosopher, A Documentary Film (2012)

Essay on the Documentary Film by Travis Low and Torben Bernhard

Affliction Fiction: Brian Evenson's Dark Work, Open Letters Monthly (2012)

Peter Handke and the Language of War, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2012)

Voyage by Dugout or The Play of the Film of the War, by Peter Handke, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press) (2012)

Immortal For Quite Some Time, Part 2, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (2011)

Immortal For Quite Some Time: Part One, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (2011)

Review of Stefani Engelstein, Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalistic Discourse, Goethe Yearbook (2011)

Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez, The Bloomsbury Review (2010)

Hermeneutic Adventures in Home Teaching: Mary and Richard Rorty, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (2010)

Review of Andrew Cusack's "The Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature, Goethe Yearbook (2010)

Review of Erhard Bahr's "Weimar on the Pacific, Goethe Yearbook (2010)

Peter Handke's 1989 Yugoslavia, The Literary Traveler (2009)

"The Eyes of a Flounder" Poems by Laura Hamblin, Catalyst Magazine (2007)

"inferno" by Charles Bowden, Catalyst Magazine (2006)

Abstractions Come Home: A review of "interstices," by Laurelyn Whitt and "Sound Weave," by Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero, Catalyst Magazine (2006)

Mormon Civilization and Its Schizophrenic Discontents "The Open Curtain" Brian Evenson, Catalyst Magazine (2006)

Polka-dotted Truth Adam Worden Collages, Catalyst Magazine (2005)

A Reasonable Dictionary, Salt Flats Annual (2005)

Immortal For Quite Some Time: Princeton, Irreantum (2005)

'That sweet And so on': Peter Handke's Yugoslavia Work, Companion to the Works of Peter Handke (2005)

Michael and Me: Education, Politics, Money, Culture, and Michael Moore at UVSC, Catalyst Magazine (2004)

After the Tree Had Fallen: Recent Works and Collaborations By Alex Caldiero and Frank McEntire, Catalyst Magazine (2003)

Mitt Romney, BYU, and Abortion Rights, Boston Globe (2002)

The Rhetoric of War and Peace: Peter Handke's 'Questioning While Weeping', World Literature Today (2001)

Radical Jazz, Salt Lake Observer (1999)

Healthy Decadence? Utah Art Through a German Lens, Salt Lake Art Center, Insert for Catalyst Magazine (1999)

Crossing, Catalyst Magazine (1999)

Wild Rides, Wild Flowers, 1-10 (with Sam Rushforth), Salt Lake Observer (1999)

Translations from Peter Handke's "Once Again For Thucydides", Conjunctions (1998)

Celebrity and Immortality, The Salt Lake Observer (1998)

Timbre and the Jazz Voice, Salt Lake Observer (1998)

Balkan Blues, Salt Lake Observer (1998)

HOCUS FOCUS: MOSE ALLISON AT THE BIRD, The Event (1997)

On Ecclesiastical Endorsement at BYU, Sunstone (1997)

Postmetaphysical Metaphysics: Peter Handke's "Repetition", Camden House (1997)

Clipped and Controlled: A Contemporary Look at BYU, Sunstone (1996)

Performing the Book: A. F. Caldiero's "The Food that Fits the Hunger", Salt Lake Art Center: Exhibition Catalog (1995)

"The Material Idea of Volk": Peter Handke's Dialectical Search for a National Identity, Amsterdamer Beitraege zur neueren Germanistik (1995)

Will We Find Zion or Make It? An Essay on Postmodernity and Revelation, Sunstone (1994)

Intermittent Conversations: A. F. Caldiero, Exhibition Catalogue: The Unclosed Handke (1994)

Standing Stones and Stanzas: Leslie Norris' "The Twelve Stones of Pentre Ifan", An Open World: Essays on Leslie Norris (1994)

One Lord, One Faith, Two Universities: Tension between "Faith" and "Thought" at BYU, Sunstone (1992)

Peter Handke's Theatrical Works, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Twentieth-Century German Dramatists, 1919-1992 (1992)

The Semiotics of Young Werther, Goethe Yearbook (1992)

Jazz Sehen: Julije Knifers Mäander, Flugasche (1990)

House of the Lord, House of the Temple (with Steven Epperson), Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (1987)

Standing and Being in Rilke's Fifth Elegy, The German Quarterly (1987)

The Freemasonic Ritual Route in Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre', Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift (1984)

The Raw and the Cooked: Claude Levi-Strauss and Günter Grass, Günter Grass's 'The Flounder' in Critical Perspective (1983)

Günter Grass' "Hundejahre": A Realistic Novel about Myth, The German Quarterly (1982)

"Der Zauberberg" and the German Romantic Novel, The Germanic Review (1980)

Books

Fictions of Freemasonry: Afterword (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Appendix (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Chapter 1, 18th-Century Freemasonry (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Chapter 2, Schiller's The Ghost-Seer (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Chapter 3, Ritual Routes in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Chapter 4, Karl Gotzkow's Knights of the Spirit (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Chapter 5, Early Twentieth Century (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Chapter 6, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Chapter 7, Hesse to Grass (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Illustrations (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Notes (1991)

Fictions of Freemasonry: Preface (1991)

Contributions to Books

The Other Side of the Limit, The Destructible Object and Other Essays: The Sculptural Work of Frank McEntire (2011)

Standing Stones and Stanzas in Leslie Norris’ “The Twelve Stones of Pentre Ifan”, An Open World: Essays on Leslie Norris (1994)

Popular Press

Tinkering with Tenure, Salt Lake Tribune (2011)

Wild Rides, Wild Flowers, 41-50 (with Sam Rushforth), Catalyst Magazine (2003)

Wild Rides, Wild Flowers, 31-40 (with Sam Rushforth), Catalyst Magazine (2002)

Wild Rides, Wild Flowers, 21-30 (with Sam Rushforth), Catalyst Magazine (2001)

Wild Rides, Wild Flowers, 11-20 (with Sam Rushforth), Catalyst Magazine (2000)

Unpublished Papers

Father / Son Conundrum (with Ben Abbott) (2010)

Our Feet Are The Same (2010)

Recreating The Self: Stations of the Cross in Peter Handke’s The Left-Handed Woman (2010)

The Island: Taquile / Lake Titicaca (2010)

Presentations

The Language of War, Utah Humanities Council (2006)

Why "Howl"?, Salt Lake Public Library: Ken Sanders Rare Books (2005)

Frankenstein in the Context of German Romanticism, Frankenstein Conference (2004)