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Corinna Sauter deposited Vom Schwarzwerden des Humors in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 4 months agoDer Beitrag widmet sich dem satirischen Humor Jean Pauls als schwarzem Humor skizzenhaft ausgehend von der Fundierung des ästhetischen Humors in der Weltverachtung (§ 33 der “Vorschule der Ästhetik”). In einer Lektüreminiatur zur späten menippeischen Satire “Des Geburthelfers Walther Vierneissel Nachtgedanken über seine verlornen Fötus…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic CFP: Musical responses to Goethe’s Works (ASECS, St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023) in the discussion
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year agoSponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, I’m chairing a session on Goethe and music at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023). I’m a disabled and unemployed musicologist with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). Thus, my Goethe session helps promote div…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year agoThis document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.
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Corinna Sauter deposited “nur die Flüssigkeit gibt die Freiheit zu neuer Gestaltung”. Überlegungen zum Witz als Prinzip der ungebundenen Schreibart bei Jean Paul in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoDer Aufsatz widmet sich dem Jean Paulschen Witz als einem grundlegenden Verfahren, das maßgeblich zur Poetizität seiner satirischen Prosa beiträgt. Der Gang der Argumentation führt vom Wort-Schatz als Ressource des Witzes (I.) über die Manöver des (unbildlichen) Witzes (II.), die sprachliche Selbstreferenz des Wortspiels (III.) und die Anagr…[Read more]
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Corinna Sauter deposited Wilhelm Raabe Meisterdieb. Plagiarismus in “Gutmanns Reisen” in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoMit dem Begriff des Plagiats findet Wilhelm Raabe in “Gutmanns Reisen” eine Chiffre für seine Praxis unhintergehbarer Intertextualität. Angesichts einer durch starke Vorgänger und eine stetig anwachsende ‘Literaturgeschichte’ fraglich gewordenen Kategorie des Neuen behauptet Raabe eine paradoxe Autorschaft originärer Sekundarität, die darin best…[Read more]
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Corinna Sauter deposited Proversa – “Oder umgekehrt”. Wilhelm Raabes (Literatur-)Satire “Deutscher Mondschein” (1872/1873) als Programmschrift der Prosa in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoRaabe schreibt eine Prosa, die er an der Verdichtung der Versdichtung bemisst und die sich die Umwendung zum Modell nimmt. Ein Text, der diesen Umstand im Zeichen der Korrektur ‘dürftiger Prose’ inszeniert und den ich daher eine Programmschrift der Prosa nenne, liegt mit “Deutscher Mondschein” vor. Auf der Textbühne der Satire werden nicht nur d…[Read more]
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Petra S. McGillen deposited More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei, MLA 2022 (Abstracts) in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAbstracts for the Two-Panel Series “More Is More: Rules and Riddles of Nineteenth-Century Vielschreiberei.” MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Anthony Adler deposited Deconfabulation: Agamben’s Italian Categories and the Impossibility of Experience in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAgamben’s self-professed epigonism underwrites his entire project, serving as an even more fundamental methodological concept than the signature, paradigm, and archeology. In Infancy and History, Agamben maintains that transcendental experience is no longer a viable source of philosophical insight; philosophers go astray referring their thinking b…[Read more]
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Anthony Adler deposited The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka’s “Der Bau” in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAn analysis of the politics of sound and noise in Kafka’s “Der Bau.”
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Anthony Adler deposited The Abject Life of Things h.c. andersen’s sentimentality in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe following paper attempts a philosophically rigorous interpretation of H.C. Andersen’s tales. Through a radically conceived sentimentality — the unmediated juxtaposition of the abjection of things, conceived as a paradoxical “desire for desire” having no place in the world, with a cruel, apathetic gaze — Andersen challenges the exist…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>CALL FOR PAPERS</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture</p>The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on…[Read more] -
Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago<h3>CALL FOR PAPERS</h3>
<h1>Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture</h1>
<p class=”rteleft”>The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students,…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee deposited Introduction: Departures, Emanations, Intersections in the group
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis is the introduction to the book German Literature as World Literature published by Bloomsbury Press in 2014.
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: What is German Literature? (30.09.16) NEMLA in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis panel at the NEMLA Annual Convenion in Baltimore, 23-26 March 2017, will consider the question of how “German” literature has been conceived in the past, and of how such conceptions may be changing as we head into the future. We begin with the polyvalence of the adjective “German,” which can refer either to the language, or to an ethnic…[Read more]
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP Philadelphia 2017 MLA Heine in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)
“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Musl…[Read more]
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Saskia Ziolkowski started the topic CFP: "Lessing and World Literature" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoAlthough Lessing’s examinations of literature in contrast to the other arts have been an object of considerable scholarly focus, Lessing is rarely mentioned in the many studies of world literature. Lessing’s absence contrasts with Goethe’s, who is well-known as being one of the earliest (often credited as being the earliest) theorist of world li…[Read more]
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