Session Details

Monday, 29 December

578. The Form of the World: Site, Sound, and Symbol in Premodern German Literature

1:45–3:00 p.m., Pacific Suite F, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on German Literature to 1700

Presiding: Rosmarie T. Morewedge, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York

1. “Sound and Smell in the Mystical Realm: Visionary Epistemology on the Basis of Sensual Experiences—Agnes Blannbekin (d. 1315),” Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona

2. “Sound as Narcotic in Gottfried’s Tristan: Petitcreiu’s Bell,” William Layher, Washington Univ.

3. “‘Diu burc diu was zerbrochen, diu stat diu was verbrant’: The Creative Destruction of Architecture and Cultural Forgetting,” Scott Pincikowski, Hood Coll.

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