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CALL FOR PAPERS — AUFRUF ZUR TEILNAHME
Ein Symposion
zu Ehren Walter Kempowskis
zum 75. Geburtstag des Schriftstellers
Eastern Michigan
University
Ypsilanti, Michigan (near Detroit)
April 7 - 9,
2004
THEME:
“Recent
German History as Literature – Voices of the People
in the Works of Walter Kempowski ”
The Planning Committee for this International Symposium
invites papers on, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Chronicler of the German Bourgeoisie, the Fate of
Families and a Nation
- Chronicler of the Third Reich and Contemporary of
the Holocaust
- Der Zweite Weltkrieg — Fragen der Verantwortung
und der deutschen Haltung
- Kempowski as Pedagogue and as Creator of Pedagogical
Figures in his Fiction
- The Art of Kempowski’s Diaries
- The Achievements of Kempowski as Author of Hörspiele
- The Achievements of Kempowski as Autobiographer
- Genre Preferences, Narrative Methods
- Techniques of Distancing in Order not to Judge
- Der Humor und das Komische in den Werken Kempowskis
- Kempowski’s Art of the Literary Montage
- The Effectiveness and Problems of Film Versions
of Walter Kempowski’s Works
- Kempowski's Innovative Use of Modern Technology
- Didacticizing a Work of Kempowski for the DaF Literature
Class
- Assessing Kempowski’s Place among his Contemporaries
- The Appeal of Kempowski for the American Reading
Public
- Kempowski — His Reception with the Critics
ERÖFFNUNGSVORTRAG / OPENING ADDRESS:
Professor Dr.
Jörg Drews, Universität Bielefeld
“Some Reflections
on
Walter Kempowski’s Oeuvre”
ABSTRACTS/ ENQUIRIES
Deadline Extended:
Enquiries and 300-word abstracts
by March 1, 2004 to:
Dr. Carla A. Damiano
Walter Kempowski Symposium
Foreign Languages & Bilingual Studies
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
cdamiano@emich.edu
T: (734) 480-2581
F: (734) 487-3411 |
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