Seminar Series 2004-2005
At the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (University of London)
THE SIRENS IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE
The mythological sirens embody a concept of love that alternates between seduction and destruction, between an instinctive longing for intimacy in the one hand and a conscious desire for detachment on the other. These monthly seminars will examine the sirens as symbols of the ambivalence of love in twentieth-century Austrian literature.
Convenor MARTIN LIEBSCHER [[log in to unmask]]
AUTUMN TERM
20 October The Sirens: The Myth of Love and Distance and its literary Adaptations.
24 November Nick Lewin - The Impact of the Sirens: A Jungian Interpretation of the Sirens and their Relationship to Anima Theory
SPRING TERM
26 January Simon Thomas - 'Song to the Siren': Sounding the Feminine
23 February Ruth Martin - Franz Kafka 'The Silence of the Sirens'
SUMMER TERM
27 April Robert Musil 'The Temptation of Quiet Veronica'
25 May Ingeborg Bachmann 'Undine goes'
All meetings are held on Wednesday afternoons between 3 and 5 p.m.
All welcome.
A Reading List will be available from mid-September
from the Seminar Convenor
Christopher Barenberg
INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES
University of London School of Advanced Study
29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
Tel: +44 (0)20- 7862 8965
Fax: +44 (0)20- 7862 8970
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