Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

600. The Gendering of Metonymic Violence from Medieval to Modern German Culture

7:15–8:30 p.m., Jefferson, Loews

A special session

Session leader: Richard Langston, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1. “Wandering Genitalia in Late Medieval German Literature and Culture,” Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke Univ.

2. “Two Sisters Sleeping in One Bed: Wieland and the Early Modern Breast,” Simon Jan Richter, Univ. of Pennsylvania

3. “Automated Limbs: Peter Weiss and the Traumatic Legacies of Surrealism,” Richard Langston

For copies of abstracts, write to Richard Langston by 1 Dec. 2004 or visit www.unc.edu/~relangst/bodyparts.html.

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