Special GSNA Sessions at theAnnual Convention of the German Studies AssociationSeptember 18-21, 2014, in Kansas City, Missouri
Organizer: John Lyon, University of Pittsburgh
The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit I: Political Spaces
Moderator: Tove Holmes, McGill UniversityCommentator: John Lyon, University of Pittsburgh
- Christian Weber, Florida State University:"An Explosive Compression of Space: Kleist’s Anecdotal 'Tagesbegebenheiten' in the Berliner Abendblätter”
- Hamid Tafazoli, University of Luxembourg:"Poetologische Funktion des Raumes in Goethes West-östlichem Divan”
- Joseph O’Neil, University of Kentucky:"Goethe and the Spatial Trope in Political Theology”
The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit II: Spatial Configurations in the Wilhelm Meister Novels
Moderator: Hamid Tafazoli, University of LuxembourgCommentator: Christian Weber, Florida State University
- Colin Benert, DePaul University/ University of Chicago:"The Space of Memory in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre”
- Jason Groves, Yale University:"The Shock of the Earth: Geoaesthetics in the Goethezeit”
- Christina Hinz, Johns Hopkins University:"Spatial Movements and Astronomical Formations in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder Die Entsagenden”
The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit III: Literary Landscapes, Soundscapes, and Mindscapes
Moderator: Joseph O’Neil, University of KentuckyCommentator: Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College
- Tove Holmes, McGill University:"Viewing Spaces: Literary Landscapes around 1800”
- Alexander Sorenson, University of Chicago:"Hearing das Unerhörte: Sense and the Space of Haunting in Gottfried August Bürger’s Lenore and Heinrich von Kleist’s Das Bettelweib von Locarno”
- Stephanie Großman and Stefan Halft, University of Passau:"Entering the Romantic Mindscape: Changing Concepts of Space in Eichendorff’s Marmorbild and Hoffmann’s Die Bergwerke zu Falun”