»Reading Miscellanies – Miscellaneous Readings«
International conference of the DFG research unit »Journalliteratur«
29 to 31 August 2019, University of Cologne (Germany)
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Programme (Pdf)
Book of Abstracts (Pdf)
Donnerstag | Thursday, 29.08.2019
| 12:30-13:00 | Anmeldung | Registration | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Daniela Gretz, Marcus Krause, Nicolas Pethes: Grußworte | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
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Panel 1 |
Reading Miscellanies I: Novels and Narratives |
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| Chair: Nicolas Pethes (Universität zu Köln) | ||
| 14:00-14:40 | Sean Franzel (University of Missouri, Columbia): Writing from Beyond the Grave: Jean Paul’s Novel Continuations |
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| 14:40-15:20 | Bryan Klausmeyer (Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg): »Desultorische Lektüre«: Reading Awry in Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s Sudelbücher |
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| 30 Min. Coffee break | ||
| 15:50-16:30 | Willi Barthold (Georgetown University, Washington D.C.): Roman der »losen Blätter«: Wilhelm Raabes Pfisters Mühle und die Transformation der Romanform in der Journalkultur |
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| 16:30-17:10 | Stephen Donovan (Uppsala University): Cumulation vs. Aggregation: Reading Tit-Bits and Tit-Bits Novels, 1881-1920 |
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| 17:10-17:50 | Urte Helduser (Universität zu Köln): Miszellaneität als Erzählverfahren. Veza Canettis Fortsetzungserzählungen in der Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung |
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| 25 Min. Coffee break | ||
Abendvortrag | Keynote
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| 18:15-19:15 | Barbara M. Benedict (Trinity College, Hartford): So Much to Read! So little Time! Booksellers’ Solutions to the 18th Century Explosion of Printed Pleasures |
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| Empfang | Reception |
Freitag | Friday, 30.08.2019
Panel 2 |
Reading Miscellanies I: Magazines and Newspapers |
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| Chair: Susanne Düwell (Universität zu Köln) | ||
| 09:30-10:10 | Madleen Podewski (Freie Universität Berlin): Was machen Zeitschriften mit miszellanen Schreibformen im Vormärz und im Realismus? Heinrich Heine und Theodor Fontane |
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| 10:10-10:50 | Solvejg Nitzke (Technische Universität Dresden): Natural Miscellanies: Heimat and the Imagination of ›Natural‹ Environments |
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| 30 Min. Coffee break | ||
| 11:20-12:00 | Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary University of London): The Future of Novels and Newspapers (circa 1888) |
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Panel 3
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Reading Miscellanies III: Collections |
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| Chair: Marcus Krause (Universität zu Köln) | ||
| 12:00-12:40 | Nora Ramtke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): »Miscellen für das wiederbefreyte Deutschland«. Journalförmige Sammlungen 1813-1815 zur »Geschichte der Zeit« |
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| Lunch break | ||
| 14:10-14:50 | Mark Turner (King’s College London): The Miscellany, Compression and Media Culture in the Early 19th Century |
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| 14:50-15:30 | Christine Woody (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia): At the Limits of Seriality: Victorian Novels and the ›Sketch‹ Genre |
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| 15:30-16:10 | James Mussell (University of Leeds): ›Confused and Ill-Arranged‹: Reading Miscellaneity with Enquire Within |
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| 30 Min. Coffee break | ||
Panel 4 |
Miscellaneous Reading: Historical Practices and Reflections of Reading |
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| Chair: Nora Ramtke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) | ||
| 16:40-17:20 | Susanne Düwell (Universität zu Köln): Miszellanes Lesen in der Lesepropädeutik um 1800 |
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| 17:20-18:00 | Elisabeth Tilmann (Universität Bonn): Der größte, der unbestechlichste Gerichtshof der Welt. Robert Prutz über Leser*innen von Unterhaltungs- und Journalliteratur |
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| 19:00 | Dinner |
Samstag | Saturday, 31.08.2019
| 09:00-09:40 | Lynne Tatlock (Washington University, St. Louis): Making Sense of Snippets: Thekla von Gumpert’s Album for Girls, ca. 1871-1914 |
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| 09:40-10:20 | Daniela Gretz (Universität zu Köln): Keller, Raabe, Fontane: »nichts für den Durchschnittsleser«. Miszellane Lektüren, imaginäre Leser und (implizite) Kanonisierung in der Literaturkritik |
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| 30 Min. Coffee break | ||
Panel 5 |
Reading Reading: Aporias of Scholarly Reading Practices |
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| Chair: Daniela Gretz (Universität zu Köln) | ||
| 10:50-11:30 | Nicolas Pethes (Universität zu Köln): »Nomadic Readers« in a »Quodlibet Century«: How to Read Jean Paul’s Novels as Miscellanies |
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| 11:30-12:10 | Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University): Henry James, Counting Words, and the Origins of Machine Learning |
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| 12:10-12:50 | Marcus Krause (Universität zu Köln): »How to Do Things with Readers«. Rereading Theories of Reading |
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| Farewell |