Decoding Traces. The narrative power of traces in the European Realism. (Talk in German)

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• Uta Schurmann (FU Berlin & University of Cambridge)
• Monday 08 November 2010, 17:00-18:30
• Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Daniel Jonah Wolpert.

My PhD project is based on three central aspects of the 19th century intérieur: The intérieur is the bourgeois space of self-reflection, it is an archive of objects that bear traces, and it is a material utopia where the presence of objects produces a loss of time and space. My thesis is that the main characteristics of European Realism – its concern with objects, its discovery of the narrative power of details and traces, and its search for truth on the surface of things – emerge from these new interpretations of the intérieur. The talk concentrates on the cultural and narrative function of traces.

This talk will be presented in German.

This talk is part of the German Graduate Research Seminar series.

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• Department of German and Dutch
• German Graduate Research Seminar
• Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site

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