Dear List Member,
If you find yourself around East London tonight (5 March 2019), drop into Queen Mary at 6.30pm to listen to Petra Rau (University of East Anglia) and her lecture on:
'You will finish this sentence': the German writer and the English reader
About the lecture:
Perhaps not unfairly, German has a reputation for interminable, complex sentences. They may be difficult to follow - and finish for the Anglophone reader -, but sometimes these sentences suit the writer's purpose and the idea to be conveyed. From Kleist to Thomas Mann, from Christa Wolf to W.G. Sebald, the long sentence can reel in the reader like so much bait. In the academic idiom we often get away with hypotactical excess, but editorial intervention tends to be more exacting when we move into forms of prose for a wider audience. What can the long sentence achieve and when is it worth fighting for it? Unfurling some esteemed literary examples alongside a section from her work-in-progress family memoir, Petra Rau will argue passionately for the strategic efficacy of the long sentence.
About Petra Rau:
Petra Rau is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at UEA. She is currently working on a British-Academy funded monograph on expulsion in postwar German literature and film, on a family memoir and on an edited collection entitled Europe for CUP's new Series Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture.
All welcome! You can register and find full details here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/basf-lecture-series-on-anglo-german-matters-tickets-50371166515
Your Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations
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