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From: Angela Borchert <[log in to unmask]>
Call for Papers: "Visualizing History: Memory in German
Romanticism"
Special Session of the North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism: August 22-25, 2002 at the University of Western
Ontario, in London, Ontario.
F. Schlegel's remark on the middle ages, "we want to hold fast to
the image of those great times" opens up the question: how do
history and visual forms of representation relate to each other in
German Romanticism? Romantics seem to oscillate between an
atmospheric historical representation like C.D. Friedrich's cloister
ruins and depictions of a specific historical moment like M. von
Schwind's Wartburg paintings. Similarly Romantics seem to
emphasize visual forms of representation that range from concrete
architecture like Ludwig I's Walhalla to a metaphoric inner image
like Schlegel's. How do German Romantics negotiate the tensions
between myth and history in shaping different kinds of visual
representations? Proposals addressing any aspect of visualizing
history in German Romanticism are invited. Possible areas of
inquiry might be: How are remembering, collecting or recollecting
pictured? How do the visual aspects of rhetorical figures, such as
symbols, metaphors or allegories relate to the representation of
history? How do German Romantics envision the transformation of
memory from a traditional archival, emblematic function to an
active, productive form of remembrance? Please submit 500-word
proposals or 2,500-word papers by 15 January 2002 to
Angela Borchert
Assistant Professor of German and Compartive Literature
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Western Ontario
London, ON N6A 3K7 Canada
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Further information is available at: http://publish.uwo.ca/~nassr/
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