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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">2014 Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century<br>
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The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is home of the Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies. In March and April five leading scholars will explore how literary studies can fulfill the expectations of an academic discipline and connect
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.4pt; text-indent: -18pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><b>Lecture No. 2</b> </span>–<span style="line-height: 14.4pt;"> </span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.4pt; text-indent: -18pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Thursday</span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.4pt; text-indent: -18pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: 14.4pt;">,
13 March 2014, 7pm </span>–<span style="line-height: 14.4pt;"> HH 1102</span></font></div>
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<a href="http://ies.ubc.ca/gaby-pailer" style="color: rgb(172, 97, 0);">GABY PAILER</a> | UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA</p>
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THE (MELO-)DRAMA OF THE ‘FAIR JEWESS’: RE-FRAMING SIR WALTER SCOTT’S IVANHOE (1819) IN FANNY LEWALD’S JENNY (1843)</p>
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Literary Studies deal with the long meanders of intellectual (world) history and inquire why mechanisms of political, social and cultural injustice are still reiterated in the 21st century. Walter Benjamin’s ‘Angel of History,’ who sees rubble piling up sky-high
where an historicist view would build a progressive plot, reminds us to envisage remnants of the past and notions of the future without essentializing. Focusing on Jewish heroines torn between jousting crusaders in two 19th century novels, I’ll show how Lewald
re-frames Scott’s medieval melodramatic plot of race, gender and nation-building as a modern quest for Jewish and women’s emancipation in pre-national Germany.</p>
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<i style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Full details on all the lectures is available at </span></i><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century" style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;">https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century</a></h2>
<div>For more information contact Prof. Grit Liebscher (<a href="mailto:gliebscher@uwaterloo.ca" style="color: purple;">gliebscher@uwaterloo.ca</a> / 519.888.4567, x35695)</div>
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