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Letters in 19th and 20th Century German Literature
| Location: | Illinois, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2014-01-09 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2013-03-16 |
| Announcement ID: |
202296 |
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Division on Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature
Modern Language Association Convention
Chicago, January 9-12, 2014
Letters
The executive committee of the Division on Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature invites papers on letters as literature (such as Heine’s Briefe aus Berlin or Hofmannsthal’s Chandos Brief); letters in literature (Spinell’s letter to Klöterjahn in Thomas Mann’s Tristan, for example, or the letter at the opening of Kafka’s Das Urteil); published correspondences and changes in editorial practice (including the wife’s half of the correspondence in the Ehebriefwechsel of Theodor and Emilie Fontane, for example); letters as autobiography (or not); letter-writing as the purview of women (or not); open letters as a political tool; the dictation of letters; technology and letters (Rohrpost, the telegram, the telephone); the letter as material object. Please submit proposals of 250 words by 1 March 2013 to Jocelyne Kolb (jkolb@smith.edu).
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