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Professor Michael Auer
Monday, November 07, 2016, 12:00pm - 01:30pm

Title: "di Leier, die keine Kringe sang: Aesthetics and Politics in Klopstocks Ode "Der Jezige Krieg"

Klopstock’s marginalization in German Studies is greatly due to the persistence of a powerful narrative linking literary autonomy and de-politicization. And indeed, his revolutionary odes, and the free rhythmic Der jezige Krig in particular, challenge such a narrative inasmuch as they engage an alternate paradigm of autonomy, one whose scope remains expressly socio-political. The talk will explore the subversive potential this paradigm has for the tradition of panegyric amplification as well as for the politics of Klopstock’s time. And it will show that the metrical irregularities of the free rhythms give rise – and ‘voice’ – to an unprecedented form of both lyrical and political self-organization.

 

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Location Academic Building, West Wing Room #4050
German Department Seminar Room