MLA Commons | LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:47:56 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6bcabc0fd4f13b0dc91dd570a224e88e Julie Koser started the topic CFP: Explorations of Space (MLA, Toronto, Jan. 8-11, 2026) in the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-explorations-of-space-mla-toronto-jan-8-11-2026/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:52:20 -0500 Modern Language Association Conference
Toronto
January 8–11, 2026

CFP: Explorations of Space (organized by the LLC Forum for 18th- and early 19th-Century German)

The Forum for 18th- and early 19th-century German seeks papers contributing new insights to notions of space in the German-speaking world around 1800. The “spatial turn” has gener…[Read more]

]]> 0 786d1eb88c8fba27c9b15138691472c6 Corinna Sauter deposited Vom Schwarzwerden des Humors in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847475/ Mon, 29 May 2023 02:24:03 -0400 Der 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]

]]> 0 2a4083b2e279b5e05c4b3623149eb20e 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-musical-responses-to-goethes-works-asecs-st-louis-march-9-11-2023-3/ Sat, 03 Sep 2022 21:15:08 -0400 Sponsored 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]

]]> 0 2e592712acdc5a60d5e01a5ece80b69a Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1792028/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 02:25:03 -0400 This 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.

]]> 0 580927c10ebbc26f53b5c671c15080c2 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779737/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:26:22 -0400 Der 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]

]]> 0 ca8c8bdb65d6132ece8418ad7d404611 Corinna Sauter deposited Wilhelm Raabe Meisterdieb. Plagiarismus in "Gutmanns Reisen" in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779735/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:25:13 -0400 Mit 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]

]]> 0 a77eddcd40efc8eb7611b40df54ddf65 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1779733/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:23:55 -0400 Raabe 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]

]]> 0 c17b74739b358e692458938ade1ac970 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732632/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 03:59:51 -0400 Abstracts 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.

]]> 0 b0991478ebb3a73a7d7a052b9051c7b8 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-14/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:31:04 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 0d1d7e02fcb478a75b5974176e35d948 Anthony Adler deposited Deconfabulation: Agamben's Italian Categories and the Impossibility of Experience in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573978/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:22:45 -0400 Agamben’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]

]]> 0 c1ba1ab463ea45cb8acac328ef394c3c Anthony Adler deposited The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka's "Der Bau" in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573607/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:21:56 -0400 An analysis of the politics of sound and noise in Kafka’s “Der Bau.”

]]> 0 cecaf6995f358c65cef5cb3e3d027e24 Anthony Adler deposited The Abject Life of Things h.c. andersen's sentimentality in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573604/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:09:58 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 31f5728e2f9bd291eb797340ef878c85 Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-oceans-and-deserts-2017-4/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 22:28:46 -0500 <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]

]]> 0 e8927e9f71a91f73884592dcd17d1a90 Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-oceans-and-deserts-2017-4/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 22:28:46 -0500 CALL 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]

]]> 0 e8927e9f71a91f73884592dcd17d1a90 Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-oceans-and-deserts-2017-4/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 22:28:46 -0500 CALL 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]

]]> 0 e8927e9f71a91f73884592dcd17d1a90 Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-oceans-and-deserts-2017-4/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 22:28:46 -0500 CALL 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]

]]> 0 f3cb428a0a8a5ac5edc1970795a76330 Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-oceans-and-deserts-2017-4/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 22:28:46 -0500 <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]

]]> 0 d62447a0f16f433c113231ac0fe9c9bd Thomas Oliver Beebee deposited Introduction: Departures, Emanations, Intersections in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549919/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 01:24:30 -0400 This is the introduction to the book German Literature as World Literature published by Bloomsbury Press in 2014.

]]> 0 95f6b85b741d7b6624ec73e5f3e34278 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-what-is-german-literature-30-09-16-nemla-3/ Sun, 24 Jul 2016 20:00:35 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 698aab5a971131fa59784e889bf70ce7 Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP Philadelphia 2017 MLA Heine in the discussion Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-philadelphia-2017-mla-heine/ Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:31:47 -0500 Call 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]

]]> 0 c1b428d52a39f6687ef749dbb13e6251 Saskia Ziolkowski started the topic CFP: "Lessing and World Literature" (MLA 2017) in the discussion Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-and-early-19th-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-lessing-and-world-literature-mla-2017/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:43:15 -0500 Although 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]

]]> 0 6a4c4bc40be018304e673034bc8c7d14 Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German: German Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538625/ Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:09:11 -0500 German Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETAL

CONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

SEMINAR DES…[Read more]

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