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Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 10 months, 1 week agoWould anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session.
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Heike Bauer deposited The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThe book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months agoA review of Robert Leucht’s “Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930” (2016) and Ulrich Bach’s “Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire” (2016)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic CFP GSA 2017: “Das Sklavenschiff”: Race, Empire, and Culture in the 19thC in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoCall for Papers
North American Heine Society
German Studies Association
Atlanta, October 5-8, 2017
“Das Sklavenschiff”: Race, Empire, and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Heine’s 1854 poem “Das Sklavenschiff” mobilizes mourning and Romantic literary form for both ethical protest against racism and oppression as well as for a critique…[Read more]
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Jonathan S. Skolnik started the topic "Disputation": Literature and Politics CFP MLA 2018 North American Heine Society in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoNorth American Heine Society
Modern Language Association
New York, January 4-7, 2018
“Disputation”: Literature and Politics; Heine and Beyond
The Heine Society invites papers on Heine, 19th-century writers, and/or their interpreters, reexamining the relation of literature and politics. 100-word abstract/bio by 6 March 2017 to Jonathan Sko…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 2 years agoExtended Deadline!
CALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and CultureThe 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,…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited “Ersticken im Stofflichen”: Characters as Collectives in Alfred Döblin’s Wallenstein and his Theoretical Writings in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 2 years agoIn foregrounding the epochal figures of Albrecht von Wallenstein and the Emperor Ferdinand, Alfred Döblin’s historical novel Wallenstein (1920) would seem to confound the genre’s habitual focus on average, typical figures. The catastrophic power struggle that results from the irreconcilability of the protagonists of Wallenstein is a far cry from…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Das Ich über der Natur (1927) in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 2 years agoEntry on Alfred Döblin’s book, Das Ich über der Natur, in the 2016 Alfred Döblin Handbuch.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Please Submit Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative is scheduled for the fall of 2017, so the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month 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) o…[Read more] -
Phillip Lundberg deposited Essential Kafka, Josephine the Songstress in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoKafka’s last short story: Josephine die Saengerin – as translated by Phillip Lundberg. Copyright Free translation as stated on the copyright page of Essential Kafka.
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Simply Reproducing Reality – Brecht, Benjamin, and Renger-Patzsch on Photography in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis article reads Albert Renger-Patzsch’s photographic theory and practice in the context of Benjamin’s and Brecht’s dismissals of his work in order to recover the paradoxical interplay between documentation and perceptual training central to debates about photography as a specifically modern medium during the 1920s. I argue that, rather than…[Read more]
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Adam Toth started the topic CFP: Race Theory and Literature in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizers:
Pauline Moret-Jankus, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena
Adam J. Toth, The Pennsylvania State UniversityRace Theory and Literature Emerging out of the practices of…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee deposited Introduction: Departures, Emanations, Intersections in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months 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
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 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 in the discussion
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 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 Muslim c…[Read more]
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