MLA Commons | LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:16:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4a3e696105cf9639e86c490f2c4dd7c0 Helen Finch replied to the topic Seeking new Forum Committee member for LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/seeking-new-forum-committee-member-for-llc-20th-and-21st-century-german/#post-1040772 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:49:23 -0500 Dear all, apologies for the formatting above.

Apologies for the formatting above: please see clean copy below.

The Modern Language Association of America LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German (D061) Forum is seeking a new Forum Committee Member to take up the role for a five-year term starting in 2027. We would particularly welcome applications from…[Read more]

]]> 0 03c28885b10dd5c753fc3b6802b3f234 Helen Finch started the topic CFP: Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in 20th and 21st C German Culture in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-beyond-identities-queer-formations-in-20th-and-21st-c-german-culture/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:54:07 -0500 <div class=”x_elementToProof” data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Dear colleagues, please do consider submitting an abstract for the Forum sessions at the MLA conference in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January 2027,  on <b>Beyond Identities: Queer Formations in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century German Culture</b>. Abstracts are due by 16 March 2026.…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbaa5602e9857944ce31adcdbc958a1f Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940348/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:24:56 -0500 0 6a3fe91f5a5b33a51aeaca46ebf3461c Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940345/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:22:47 -0500 0 18d5efa7eab9aaae3c3d9cf96295ce19 Lynn Wolff created the doc MLA 2026 - LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German Panels - Related Material in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1940344/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:21:09 -0500 0 7974eee32a97cd3fbf0e12b3aa461eae Lynn Wolff started the topic CFP: The Holocaust in a Global Context in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-the-holocaust-in-a-global-context/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:10:57 -0500 Please consider submitting an abstract to the session The Holocaust in a Global Context at the MLA conference, taking place January 8–11, 2026 in Toronto. Submissions are due by March 15, 2025. This session is organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum.

This panel series seeks to examine Holocaust literature, broadly defined, by p…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c3b892d1e3b434a5cf176e5fcc2089b Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-5/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:42:38 -0500 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

]]> 0 57e89a423ca365b2a6776c7458ed68cd Ela Gezen started the topic Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/literary-alliances-networks-and-solidarities-across-minoritized-communities/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:49:32 -0500 Modern Language Association Conference
New Orleans, LA
January 9–12, 2025

CfP Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities (organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum)
This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and p…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6bb33777e3a472c1990b66f805697e1 Elisa Kriza deposited Wer ist hier der Feind? Verbündete und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung von Deutschland in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821416/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:23:58 -0500 The prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was known mainly for his work on the Soviet prison camps. In many of his fictional and non-fiction works, however, Solzhenitsyn dealt with the subject of Germany. This article analyses Solzhenitsyn’s depiction of Germany in the works August 1914, The Gulag A…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa7cb7386ffe304db87d78fa02e4ec76 Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821158/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:48:43 -0500 This is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 da473a28034c1a1666a0f682a660da04 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Redesigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-redesigning-modernities-special-issue-of-comparative-literature-studies/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:40:09 -0500 The journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c7374ab1c5a27835b5244b5ed81f154 Kyle Frackman deposited 'Coming Out' Teaching Guide in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1751180/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:23:39 -0400 A teaching guide to accompany the East German film “Coming Out” (1989, directed by Heiner Carow).

]]> 0 2fefa505313c415a43967cce5d506e98 Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1620614/ Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:40:30 -0400 This essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]

]]> 0 da563183236be01a2f1e3a5d22d6179f Kyle Frackman deposited Based on a True Story: Tracking What is Queer about German Queer Documentary in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617061/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:26:34 -0400 “Unter Männern” weaves together three threads of, first, historically relevant memory recited by its chosen protagonists; second, some personal history on the part of the primary filmmaker (i.e., director Ringo Rösener); and, third, between and among them, filmic artifacts or evidence of life in the GDR. This documentary presents the a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8c85b2aa7f49134f9e89ee13a647163 Kyle Frackman deposited Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615231/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:24:17 -0400 This chapter introduces the volume on East German film. The chapter and the volume it introduces surveys a range of depictions of gender and sexuality in East German film and television, from stereotypical and ideologically compliant understandings of femininity and homosexuality to more ambivalent constructions of androgyny, gendered agency, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 40c5564724eaab023a8f4483f1abfdfc Brian Vetruba deposited Thirty-First Annual Bibliography 2017 (Contemporary German Literature Collection) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615197/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:34:13 -0400 The 31st bibliography for 828 volumes added to Washington University Libraries’ Contemporary German Literature Collection. All published in 2017, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 5110b7f23bcdbd0efda83be40d332c19 Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609936/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 04:13:09 -0400 This essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]

]]> 0 38e858a238ce48220a4ad40821b761d9 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The Stars our Destination in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1605035/ Sun, 01 Apr 2018 03:58:48 -0400 The Stars our Destination is a story of overcoming anxieties and biases from war, as well as other growing up issues in a steel mill town. Over time, the three main characters gradually converge. Two women have nightmares involving the past and the old Prof. Daniel Blei lives off and on in a flood of troubling recollections. The conclusion will…[Read more]

]]> 0 f68bdce1ce5eb8b6eece14c965aacd14 Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German: Would anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599592/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 22:43:08 -0500 Would 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.

]]> 0 4798226099bd703f53512f5b6ac63c95 Brian Vetruba deposited Twenty-seventh Annual Bibliography, Supplement, 2013 (Contemporary German Literature Collection) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591607/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:40:22 -0500 Bibliography of contemporary German literature volumes added the previous year to Washington University Libraries’ Contemporary German Literature Collection. These acquisitions generally include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany, Austria, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e273a0241f9cf311ce18af6da0d8947 Brian Vetruba deposited Thirtieth Annual Bibliography 2016 (Contemporary German Literature Collection) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591606/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:38:36 -0500 The 30th bibliography for 660 volumes added to Washington University Libraries’ Contemporary German Literature Collection. All published in 2016, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d0c928731d96ce641eae6fe7ad6487e Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571262/ Sun, 21 May 2017 20:17:58 -0400 A review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)

]]> 0 05d48de631966842bb4efde0633423d3 Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571179/ Sat, 20 May 2017 20:17:36 -0400 A review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)

]]> 0 0cc091aeb6c3d85badb89279f07dda77 Brian Vetruba deposited Twenty-eigth Annual Bibliography 2014 (Contemporary German Literature Collection) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564032/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 01:00:01 -0500 The 28th bibliography for 560 volumes added to Washington University Libraries’ Contemporary German Literature Collection. All published in 2014, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals mainly from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A…[Read more]

]]> 0 43917fa810e9607cd548732411995b91 Brian Vetruba deposited Twenty-ninth Annual Bibliography 2015 (Contemporary German Literature Collection) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1563853/ Sun, 05 Mar 2017 01:00:05 -0500 The 29th bibliography for 585 volumes added to Washington University Libraries’ Contemporary German Literature Collection located on level B of Olin Library. All published in 2015, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e219e2c4ba9b41cf558ca6b8232c6d3 Devin Fore started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Revolutionary Belatedness in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2018-revolutionary-belatedness/ Thu, 02 Mar 2017 19:06:41 -0500 On the centennial of the October Revolution, the Forum for 20<sup>th</sup>- and 21<sup>st</sup>-Century German invites papers for the 2018 Conference of the Modern Language Association (January 4-7 in New York) that explore German reception of Russian and Soviet culture. The panels will focus specifically on the questions that this reception…[Read more]

]]> 0 730498236b504b73ba9ed12fc3b46fee Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German: Extended Deadline! CALL FOR PAPERS Oceans and Deserts 2017: […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1554162/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 22:24:11 -0500 Extended Deadline!

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,…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd87358e0b704a05d42922db39bdd524 Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-oceans-and-deserts-2017/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 19:08:37 -0400 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 March 31-April…[Read more]

]]> 0 94fffc993d90cd6e3efe15e0fd26a1ee Carl Gelderloos deposited Breaking Open Utopia: Science Fiction as Critique in the GDR in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552490/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:51:39 -0400 In this article I offer a reading of Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s novel Andymon (1982) in order to show how science fiction was able to function as critique in the German Democratic Republic. Andymon, a popular novel in a popular genre, establishes an extended analogy between spatial closure and temporal foreclosure to challenge the re…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd00feea2f74b4a25a174fd0317f7a4d Carl Gelderloos deposited Simply Reproducing Reality – Brecht, Benjamin, and Renger-Patzsch on Photography in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552477/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:39:35 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 b2c176d358b6511db2103c3a152b6059 Thomas Oliver Beebee deposited Introduction: Departures, Emanations, Intersections in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549921/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 01:24:33 -0400 This is the introduction to the book German Literature as World Literature published by Bloomsbury Press in 2014.

]]> 0 2ce6a42980aa3626d8d4a46c79e9fc3f Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: What is German Literature? (30.09.16) NEMLA in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-what-is-german-literature-30-09-16-nemla/ Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:56:03 -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 07d677660d35834c078fed1803b439b7 Nicole Grewling started the topic CfP: Writing Spaces – Landscapes and/in German Travel Writing (NeMLA 2017) in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-writing-spaces-landscapes-andin-german-travel-writing-nemla-2017/ Thu, 30 Jun 2016 07:05:45 -0400 CfP: Writing Spaces – Landscapes and/in German Travel Writing (Panel)
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA)
March 23-26, 2017
Baltimore, MD
Submission deadline: Sept.30, 2016
The desire to conquer hostile landscapes and explore unknown places has long constituted an essential aspect of traveling and hence also of co…[Read more]

]]> 0 075561c862913bfb8f24b0d8346eb614 Stefanie Harris started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-mobilitystasis-crossing-borders-media-disciplines/ Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:52:04 -0500 MLA 2017 Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German

Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more productively thought together as tangled and i…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9567a3ed4d2c273eab0819b37d15d2b Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Kafka and ideology of race in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/kafka-and-ideology-of-race/ Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:57:31 -0500 Hi, all,

As someone partly of both German and Czech background, I feel very torn in some ways similarly to the old boy Kafka himself.  Rather than ignoring the issue of Czechs and Germans as so many writers are doing, or–worse–siding with one or other, why not take a more interesting question: given that Czech-speakers and German-speakers (and…[Read more]

]]> 0 4038210215e64018cb9788a76b9e8ba3 Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German: German Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538617/ Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:06:25 -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]

]]> 0 356d229da382c49b69354dbcf5f4c714 Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/the-future-of-walter-benjamin-a-new-series-of-articles-on-mla-commons-2/#post-9957 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:32:33 -0500 Howard Eiland (MIT) and Michael Jennings (Princeton)’s response to the Future of Benjamin Project. What a beautiful closure to a list of brilliant articles. Let us know what you think:

http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/10

]]> 0 606335749348a826a89cd544092c60bd Nicky Agate started the topic Literary Trivia Quiz in Austin in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/literary-trivia-quiz-in-austin-3/ Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:05:21 -0500 I’d like to invite any members of this group attending the 2016 convention to participate in the first ever Commons literary trivia quiz, which will take place next Thursday night at the JW Marriott. It promises to be unabashedly nerdy, but fun too! A cash bar and prizes will be available.

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot at  [Read more]

]]> 0 0876f9103fcb9491ff11c24a1b644e78 Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/the-future-of-walter-benjamin-a-new-series-of-articles-on-mla-commons-2/#post-9810 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:23:01 -0500 Article # 7: Galili Shahar about Benjamin’s (Jewish) tradition:

http://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/one-foot-study-tradition-walter-benjamin

]]> 0 8afcde24ec97f3a21f43938c81748812 Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/the-future-of-walter-benjamin-a-new-series-of-articles-on-mla-commons-2/#post-9758 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:10:26 -0500 Article # 6: Annika Thiem (Villanova) about the Benjamin field and the philosophy of disciplinary boundaries:
https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/5

]]> 0 e76238eaa9c08a418d3d0a19d48e93a1 Katherine Arens started the topic U of Texas at Austin Germanic Studies is having a reception at the MLA in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/u-of-texas-at-austin-germanic-studies-is-having-a-reception-at-the-mla/ Fri, 11 Dec 2015 19:32:30 -0500 The ‘home team’ would be very pleased to see you there!

Finger food provided;  cash bar.

Thursday, Janury 7, 2016, 7-10 pm

Austin Ale House (Back room)

301 W. 6th Street (6th and Lavaca)

http://www.theaustinalehouse.com

]]> 0 2268441d301f0ca0a5a6b2e14d5edaaf Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/the-future-of-walter-benjamin-a-new-series-of-articles-on-mla-commons-2/#post-9697 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:33:06 -0500 Article # 5: Daniel Weidner (Humboldt/ZfL) about the AFTERLIFE of Benjamin:

https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/4

]]> 0 048293f75a87c95dbfff01b3a07d1f0e Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/the-future-of-walter-benjamin-a-new-series-of-articles-on-mla-commons-2/#post-9611 Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:08:17 -0500 Article # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:

https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/9

]]> 0 999b0b40b81ff6ae0bfbb71dd9e6aca6 Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/the-future-of-walter-benjamin-a-new-series-of-articles-on-mla-commons-2/#post-9537 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:56:53 -0500 Article # 2: Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth) about Benjamin Biographies: https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/1

]]> 0 aaab8a625ac2a5279b358b8b70d7897c Joela Jacobs started the topic Oceans and Deserts: CfP for emerging scholars in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/oceans-and-deserts-cfp-for-emerging-scholars/ Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:09:38 -0500 Call for Papers
OCEANS AND DESERTS 2016: 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 third annual interdisciplinary conference in the Environmental Humanities for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2dde9e78b5a11f287ae32200e176f56 Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/the-future-of-walter-benjamin-a-new-series-of-articles-on-mla-commons-2/#post-9464 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:20:53 -0500 An Introduction to the series is now online:

https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/2

]]> 0 8c66ca7272d1f5cf34841ece03eeb56c Nitzan Lebovic started the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-german/forum/topic/the-future-of-walter-benjamin-a-new-series-of-articles-on-mla-commons-2/ Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:55:43 -0500 Just a teaser for now, the articles will be uploaded every Friday, starting Nov. 7th:

https://futureofbenjamin.mla.hcommons.org

]]> 0 dc272c00970210d74e1ce2fda463c9ea Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group Twentieth-Century German Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/307067/ Sun, 02 Aug 2015 15:51:24 -0400 Although the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]

]]> 0 9590f3b01c6b94974b13c95939b837b8 Hans Adler replied to the topic New Franz Kafka play in progress in the forum Twentieth-Century German Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/twentieth-century-german-literature/forum/topic/new-franz-kafka-play-in-progress/#post-3063 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 01:48:03 -0500 Hello, I’d appreciate if you could send me your play to the following email address: hadler@wisc.edu. I might consider  to use it for my annual Kafka lecture here at the UW Madison.

 

Thanks in advance and congratulations to your achievement!

Sincerely,

Hans Adler

]]> 0 2d169a27d0fbfa43bbb85e855e9eee5f Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Franz Kafka play in progress in the forum Twentieth-Century German Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/twentieth-century-german-literature/forum/topic/new-franz-kafka-play-in-progress/#post-3052 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 19:06:48 -0500 Good afternoon, Kafka fans,

The play is finished!  Anybody wish to read it?  I would love comments.
This is a surreal play about the Franz Kafka few people know.
Intriguing?

Just ask with a valid email address and I will sennd the play on to you.

Thanks,
Gloria

 

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