The "Fontane-Kreis Großbritannien und Irland" meet for their
Frühjahrstreffen 2003
at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Saturday, 3 May 2003
Programme
10.30 Welcome (International Building, IN244)
10.45 Helen Chambers (St. Andrews)
Fontane and the Poetry of Colonial Violence
11.30 Derek Glass (King's College, London)
Early Fontane Translations: Some New Findings
12.15 Coffee
12.45 Patricia Howe (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London)
'Generation Gap': William Dean Howells' Indian Summer (1886)
and Effi Briest
(1895)
1.30 lunch
2.30 Ursula Schmidt-Brümmer (London)
'Virtuosentum' oder 'Naturburschen': Fontanes
Shakespeare-Erlebnis in England
3.15 Clarissa Blomqvist (Aston)
Der Fontanische Ton: Betrachtungen zur Sprache des Dichters
4.00 tea
4.30 Hannah Burdekin (Brighton)
Fontane's Judenfrage: Admiration, Uncertainty and Antipathy
5.15 Matt Stevens (Royal Holloway)
'Das eine ist nicht angenehm, das andere noch weniger.' The
Duel Scene in
Effi Briest and in Film Interpretations of the Novel
7.00 dinner (Founders Building, Large Board Room)
All welcome!
Registration incl. coffee, lunch and tea £ 8; dinner incl. wine £ 17.
For further details please contact: Fontanetreffen, c/o German Dept., Royal
Holloway,
University of London, Egham TW20 0EX; Tel. 01784-443201; e-mail:
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