Lecture 4 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. 4 – Thursday, 3 April 2014, 7pm – HH 1102

ELISABETH HERRMANN<http://www.mlcs.ualberta.ca/en/People/Faculty/HerrmannElisabeth.aspx> | UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

HOW DOES TRANSNATIONALISM REDEFINE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE? AN INVESTIGATION OF FIVE GERMAN AUTHORS

Using fictional works as well as theoretical reflections by authors of different (trans-)national backgrounds as examples – Ilija Trojanow, Christian Kracht, Felicitas Hoppe, Daniel Kehlmann, and Dan Vyleta – this talk will draft new concepts of literary mobility, transnationalism, and world literature that will enable us to analyse the changing conditions and features of literature in times of globalization as well as to redefine the term “contemporary German literature” 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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