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Germanics II: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session 9 - Sunday 4:30-6:00pm
Wesselkamper Science Center 120
Presiding Officer: 
Andrea Gogrof
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Friederike von Schwerin-High
  1. Nineteenth-Century Women Authors. Elizabeth Ametsbichler, University of Montana

    In this presentation, I look at how the women characters live within, i.e. adapt to their respective milieus, in the writings of very diverse women authors (e.g., von Arnim, Wildermuth, Christen, von Ebner-Eschenbach, Dohm, Lewald, and Viebig) during the nineteenth century in German-speaking lands.

  2. Tarantino’s Nazis: Transnational Fantasies and Counter-Fantasies in Inglourious Basterds. Heidi Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University

    Quentin Tarantino’s film presents a unique cultural convergence between American and German representations of Nazis. Cinephilia provides the stage on which projections and counter projections can be represented, highlighting the not always negative symbiosis between post-WWII German and Hollywood cinemas.

  3. Archiving Anarchism: H.M. Enzensberger’s Der kurze Sommer der Anarchie as Monument to the 1960s Student Protest Movement. Thomas Krüger, University of Victoria

    This paper explores Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s novel, Der kurze Sommer der Anarchie (1972), and examine how this documentary novel about Spain’s anarchist movement thematizes the archive and the monument. It draws parallels to the 1960s student movement.

  4. The Fall of Icarus: Nature and Science in W. G. Sebald's After Nature. Doris McGonagill, Utah State University

    The myth of Icarus, introduced in Sebald’s After Nature by way of a description of Breughel’s famous painting as well as an allusion to W. H. Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts,” becomes a catalyst for Sebald’s own critique of human engagement with nature, a process to be described as Another Natural History of Destruction.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed