Popular Revenants. German Gothic in its International Contexts
An International Symposium at Trinity College Dublin
Dates: Friday 4th & Saturday 5th September 2009
Venue: IIIS Conference Room, Level 6, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
This symposium is the sequel to a conference on German Gothic literature which
took place at the University of Halle-Wittenberg earlier this year. While the
Halle conference examined the part played by the German Schauerroman in the
emergence of the Gothic around 1800, this symposium will focus on the German
Gothic in the nineteenth century and beyond. Speakers will discuss the
afterlife of this literature from several vantage points, including
intercultural transfer, transfers between Gothic literature and other media,
the emergence of the fantastic, the fate of the Gothic in realism, and Gothic
modernism.
There is no registration fee, but places are limited.
For further information please contact Andrew Cusack or Barry Murnane.
Programme:
Friday 4 September
Section 1: Nineteenth-Century Revenants of the Schauerroman
10:00 Welcome and introduction
10:15 Mario Grizelj (Munich): Im Malstrom des Deutens. Umformatierungen des
Schauers und des Schreckens zwischen 1798 und 1838: Gleich, Hoffmann, Poe
11:00 Jörg Kreienbrock (Northwestern): Germany: A Schauerroman. On Heinrich
Heine’s Reception of the Gothic novel in his Theoretical Writings on Germany
12:15 Clemens Ruthner (Dublin): Die Rezeption des Vampirs (Varney, Ruthven) im
deutschen Vampir-Vaudeville des 19. Jhs.
Section 2: German Gothic in Intercultural and Intermedial Transfer
14:00 Andrew Cusack (Dublin): Intercultural Transfer in the Dublin University
Magazine: The Case of James Clarence Mangan
14:45 Vic Sage (East Anglia): The French Reception of E.T.A. Hoffmann and the
Birth of the Fantastic
16:00 Monika Schmitz-Emans (Bochum): Das Geisterreich der Kunst im romantischen
Diskurs und Robert Schumanns
schauerliterarischer Romanprojekt
16:45 Andrew Webber (Cambridge): ‘Gothic revivals’ in Weimar film
Saturday 5 September
Section 3: German Gothic in Poetic Realism and Beyond
10:00 Peter Arnds (Dublin): Politicizing the Gothic in Poetic Realism? Wilhelm
Raabe’s Die Haemelschen Kinder
10:45 Matthias Bickenbach (Tuebingen): ‘Die weiße Frau’ oder die Gesetze der
Gespenster in Theodor Fontanes Vor dem Sturm
12:00 Barry Murnane (Halle): Mother with Claws: Prague as a Site of Gothic
Modernisms
14:00 Catherine Smale (Cambridge): ‘Ein Gespenst geht um’: Christa Wolf, Irina
Liebmann, and the post-Wende Gothic
14:45 Katrin Schumacher (Halle): Science and Fiction over her Dead Body
15:30 Concluding discussion
Organisers:
Dr Andrew Cusack, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity
College Dublin: [log in to unmask]
Dr Barry Murnane, Germanistisches Institut, Martin-Luther-Universitaet
Halle-Wittenberg: [log in to unmask]
The symposium is funded by the Trinity Long Room Hub, the National Development
Plan 2007-2013, the European Structural Funding Programme and the HEA.
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