Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

59. Early Modern Counterpoints

5:15–6:30 p.m., Colorado, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on German Literature to 1700

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

1. “Gryphius and the Vanity of Vanitas,” Peter J. Burgard, Harvard Univ.

2. “Of Science and Fiction: Engelbert Kaempfer’s Travels in Safavid Persia (1683–88),” Elio C. Brancaforte, Tulane Univ.

3. “Grass and Grimmelshausen: The Horrors of War in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel,” Richard E. Schade, Univ. of Cincinnati

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