Session Details

Tuesday, 29 December

470. Sites of the Aesthetic: Probing the Limits of the Aesthetic

1:45–3:00 p.m., Commonwealth Hall A1, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century German Literature

Presiding: Claudia Breger, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

1. “From Sound to Text (and Back): Gustav Mahler’s Twentieth Century,” Carl Hendrik Niekerk, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

2. “‘A Kick in the Knee’: The Aesthetic of Violence in Postwar Austrian Literature,” Fatima F. Naqvi, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

3. “Literary Experiment and Social Mapping: Orientation in the Works of Alexander Kluge and Uwe Johnson,” Matthew D. Miller, Columbia Univ.

4. “The Aesthetic in the Age of Media Competition,” Rolf Johannes Goebel, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville

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