*With apologies for cross-posting*
A two-day German graduate symposium taking place at the University of Oxford.
To register, please email [log in to unmask] by MONDAY, 20 APRIL 2009.
Please note that there is a small registration fee of £10 which includes
lunch on Saturday, 2 May 2009. At an extra cost of £29, participants may
also attend a conference dinner on the evening of 1 May 2009. Please
indicate when registering whether you wish to attend the dinner.
6th International Oxford German Graduate Symposium
‘Entzückung oder Schmerzen?’ (Goethe, Faust)
Literature between entertainment and instruction
*1-2 May 2009*
Friday 1st May
Noel Salter Room, New College
4pm Tea and registration
4.30pm Introduction
Panel I
4.45pm Keynote speaker: Professor Franz Eybl (Universität Wien)
Aut prodesse, aut delectare: Die lange Geschichte vom Streit zwischen
Nutzen und Lust in der deutschen Literatur.
5.45pm A questionable moralist?: The role of the satirist, 1914-1945
Rachel Harland (Exeter College, Oxford)
6.25pm ‘Die Weise von Moral und Menschlichkeit des Schriftstellers Arthur
Schnitzler’: Spiel im Morgengrauen as Schnitzler’s surprising moral and
didactic legacy.
Anatole Oudaille-Diethardt (St John’s College, Oxford)
7.15pm Conference Dinner (Undercroft Hall, New College)
Saturday 2nd May
Noel Salter Room, New College
9.00-9.15am Arrival
Panel II
9.15am Anpassung an den Betrieb oder Hinwendung zur Königsdiziplin? Zur
Forschungsprogrammatik des Verhältnisses von literarischer Hetero- und
Autonomie in der feldtheoretischen Literaturwissenschaft.
David-Christopher Assmann (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn)
9.55am „Didaktische Tragweite“: Literturunterricht im Spannungsfeld von
Bildungsbegriff und lebensweltlicher Aneignung kulturell Überliefertem.
Andreas Kranke (St Peter’s College, Oxford)
10.35am “Das Erzählende Ich”: Narrative Identity and Author-Function in the
meta-fictional essays of Ulrike Draesner and Angela Krauß
Miranda Laurence (Jesus College, Oxford)
11.05am Tea/coffee
Panel III
11.30am The Non-Compliant Spectator: Walter Benjamin and Weimar Cinema
Sabine Müller (The Queen’s College, Oxford)
12.10pm ‘Man braucht sich nur einmal zu überlegen, was es ausmacht, daß die
Rundfunkhörer das Dargebotene bei sich zu Hause, die Stimme gewissermaßen
als Gast empfangen’: Conflicting conceptions of didactic aesthetics in
Walter Benjamin’s radio work.
Jack Parker (Wadham College, Oxford)
12.50pm Buffet lunch (Undercroft Hall, New College)
Panel IV
2pm Keynote speaker: Professor Elizabeth Boa (University of Nottingham)
Warring pleasures and their price: Sex in the city in Keun's Das
kunstseidene Mädchen and Schenkel's Kalteis.
3pm ‘Auffs kürtzeste und ohn allen ohnziemlichen Ruhm’: Establishing textual
authority in early modern women’s autobiographical writings.
Alice Brooke (Jesus College, Oxford)
3.40pm Re-enacting and re-fashioning a romantic history: Modern
(re)presentations of Constantia von Cosel on screen and page.
Madeleine Brook (Merton College, Oxford)
4.20pm Tea/coffee
4.50pm Concluding remarks
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Convenors:
Madeleine Brook (Merton College)
Lara Elder (New College)
Andreas Kranke (St. Peter's College)
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