Session Details

Wednesday, 28 December

272. In Love with Death: Utopia and Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature

3:30–4:45 p.m., Chevy Chase, Washington Hilton

A special session

Presiding: Russell Alexander Berman, Stanford Univ.

1. “When Dying Is an Act of Love: Peter Weiss and Gerhard Richter,” Julia Charlotte Hell, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “‘Death to the Enemies of the Revolution!’: Heiner Müller’s Versuchsreihe,” Robert Buch, Univ. of Chicago

3. “Chastening Romanticism: Thomas Mann and Aesthetic Negation,” Sean Michael McIntyre, Stanford Univ.

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