Session Details

Thursday, 06 January

59. Narrating Early Modern Violence

1:45–3:00 p.m., 406A, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature

1. “Early Modern Captivity Narratives and the Imperial Project: Unter den Indianern gefangen gewesen,” Bethany Wiggin, Univ. of Pennsylvania

2. “The Aesthetics of Gunpowder: Grimmelshausen’s Springinsfeld and the Narration of War in Early Modern Germany,” Patrick Brugh, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

3. “Urthel und ein schönes Lied: Narrating Violence in Times of Change,” Magelone Bollen, Michigan State Univ.

4. “Violence and Martyrdom in the Historia von D. Johann Fausten,” Paul Meyer, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

For abstracts, visit www.germanic.uiuc.edu/people/mwade.

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