Lecture 5 in the Series "Literary Studies in the 21st Century"

[Lori Straus]

2014 Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

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 with a wider audience.
Lecture No. 5 – Tuesday, 8 April 2014, 7pm – HH 1102

LAURIE JOHNSON<http://www.germanic.illinois.edu/people/lruthjoh> | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

FORGOTTEN DREAMS: WERNER HERZOG’S ROMANTIC CINEMA

Herzog’s films re-envision central aspects of romanticism, a major aesthetic, psychological, and cultural force from the 1790s to the present. This argument permits a lively reconnection with romantic themes and convictions that have been partly forgotten in the midst of Germany’s vigorous postwar rejection of much romantic thought, yet are still operative today. The film analyses will engage those interested in ongoing attempts by Western and other cultures to re-negotiate relationships between reason and passion, civilization and wild nature, knowledge and belief: relationships at the core of German studies in the 21st century.


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Full details on all the lectures are available at https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century
For more information contact Prof. Grit Liebscher (gliebscher at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:gliebscher at uwaterloo.ca> / 519.888.4567, x35695)

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