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WS: Looking Back and Looking Forward in Literary Studies

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Jul 09, 2025 from 02:00 to 04:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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SR 126 (GCSC)

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This workshop/master class addresses the following questions, among others: What is the fate of literary studies in the age of intermediality and interdisciplinarity? How can text-based paradigms--hermeneutics, deconstruction, reader-response criticism, etc.--be rethought to illuminate visual and sonic artifacts? Conversely, how can the study of performative arts--music, art installations, etc.--contribute to the event-character of textual reading? The session will begin with a brief introduction outlining some basic topics, questions, and problems, followed by open discussion, taking into account student interests and work.   
 
 

//Rolf J. Goebel, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of German, Emeritus, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA and Distinguished Research Fellow, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen. His book publications include: Benjamin heute: Großstadtdiskurs, Postkolonialität und Flanerie zwischen den Kulturen (2001) and Klang im Zeitalter technischer Medien: Eine Einführung (2017). He is co-author of A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (with Richard T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross und Clayton Koelb, 2005) and has edited A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin (2009), as well as A Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures (2023).