Call For Papers: The Untimeliness of Media: Intermediality Across Eras in German Literature, Culture, and Art,
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The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, invites for a Graduate Student Conference (February 18th-19th, 2016) by Dec 15th, 2015.
The middle by that works of art continue to change after ages is always opposite from a one in that they impact their possess age. Moreover, in those after times a impacts on comparison works constantly changes, too.
-Walter Benjamin, translated by Rodney Livingstone
Are media historically contingent?
On a one hand, a amicable conditions of accepting as good as a technological constraints of middle prolongation direct a particularly historicist source of a story of media. Yet on a other, a story of art and novel is condemned by black media that seem out of place in their possess time. Consider, for example, a laterna magica, that desirous filmic scenes in a works of Goethe. Or a papers of Baudelaire, in that Walter Benjamin identified an recognition of photography during a time when photography was still in a infancy. While certain media might seem out of place in their possess times, intermedial practices in sold seem disposed to treacherous a differently fast temporalities and chronological contingencies of works of art and literature. Even a use of ekphrasis, where a still impulse in a portrayal is brought into a temporal upsurge of writing, has an component of a untimely. Furthermore, digitization of comparison media, such as manuscripts, changes a bargain of their place in history. The communication between dual media destabilizes their sold temporalities. Moreover, this problematizes a attribute between critique and a intermedial objects of study. Thinking with Nietzsche, for whom counsel anachronism is a condition for criticism, untimeliness becomes a required pattern for evaluating and receiving works of art and thinkers. Therefore, if critique presupposes black thinking, afterwards a accepting and depiction of one middle in another final a reconsideration of that medium’s temporal setting. This discussion seeks to enliven a discuss about a temporalities of intermediality by focusing on a uses and abuses of a difficulty of a black for criticism.
Though a concentration of a discussion is on a intensity untimeliness of media in German literature, enlightenment and art, we acquire submissions from German studies, art history, cinema studies, architecture, philosophy, history, communications, music, analogous literature, and speculation and criticism. The organizers acquire papers that cruise both a use of an black middle in a sold work, genre, or author as good as considerations of untimeliness in literary speculation and media studies opposite all durations until a benefaction day.
Possible paper topics include:
-medial anachronism
-handwriting and the hand-written in the age of print
-Benjamin’s reflections on a temporality of media (Baudelaire, Paris, Capital of a Nineteenth Century)
-proto-filmic writing in Romanticism and Goethe
-the temporality of montage
-sculpture and its remediation in the 18th and 19th centuries
-the temporalities of ekphrasis
-anachronism in painting
-temporalities of reading in painting
-photography of sculpture and painting
-the Gesamtkunstwerk (Wagner, and Nietzsche’s reading of Wagner)
-monuments and memorials
-temporality of illustrated narratives
Please send a 250-300 word epitome to both David Nelson and Margaret Strair at nelsd(at)sas.upenn.edu and mstrair(at)sas.upenn.edu by midnight on Dec 15, 2015. Submissions should embody a paper title, author’s name, connection and email address. The organizers will forewarn supposed speakers by a finish of December.
Keynote: Christopher Wood, New York University
Submission due date: December 15th, 2015
Conference dates: February 18th-19th, 2016
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