Germanics I: Modernity
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"The Gay Apocalypse": Sex as Power in Schnitzler's Reigen. Kye Terrasi, University of California, Los Angeles
In this paper I explore gender relationships in Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen by examining specific themes relating to sexuality such as power and the repressive moral code within the context of Nietzsche’s theories on the will to power and human instinct.
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Narration and Fragmentation in the Work of Herta Müller. Karin Bauer, McGill University
My paper examines the narrative and poetic strategies deployed by Müller to depict and break down the repressive totality of everyday existence in her native Romania. Müller's poetics of fragmentation and non-identity, constitutes, I argue, the profound anti-totalitarian impulse of her works.
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Screening The Reader for the Next Generation of Bildungsbürger. Constantin Behler, University of Washington, Bothell
The successful 2008 film adaptation of the controversial novel, The Reader, highlights how the text functions as a characteristic Bildungsbürger communication from the so-called “second” to the “third generation” of a German identity rooted in Bildung and Kultur.
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