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SAMLA German III, 1933-present: DEADLINE EXTENDED
| Location: | Georgia, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-11-04 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-05-08 |
| Announcement ID: |
185078 |
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CFP Detail: This panel seeks papers that examine the nocturnal city in texts and images of the twentieth century through the present. Max Weber famously argued that the modern world is a disenchanted place, while the Surrealists, among others, advanced techniques for divining the profane. The urban night thus evokes modern fascination with a pre-modern sense of the dark side of human existence, mental and physical intoxication, or supernatural dwelling. How does German literature renegotiate, affirm, or challenge modern paradigms of rationality, clarity, and progress and how is the infatuation with the night a symptom of the modern condition itself? Paper topics could include, but are not limited to, the flâneur walking the city at night, the intrusion of mythical elements into the urban experience, the engagement with urban night life in literature, or the representation of violence and crime in nocturnal streets.
Papers which address the overall conference theme of “The Power of Poetry in the Modern World” are especially welcome. Please submit abstracts of approximately 250 words by July 5, 2011 to Kai-Uwe Werbeck at kai.werbeck@gmail.com
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Kai Werbeck
University of North Carolina
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
417 Dey Hall, CB# 3160
Chapel Hill NC 27599
Email: kai.werbeck@gmail.com
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