September 17, 2019
All Day
McPherson Room 2017
Time: 5 p.m.
Event Host: Germanic Languages and Literatures
Short Description: This talk by Sarah Eldridge, associate professor of modern foreign languages and literature at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, uses the lens of cognitive narratology to investigate the 'representationally hungry problems' addressed by several German imitations of Defoe's hugely popular Robinson Crusoe.
Event Host: Germanic Languages and Literatures
Short Description: This talk by Sarah Eldridge, associate professor of modern foreign languages and literature at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, uses the lens of cognitive narratology to investigate the 'representationally hungry problems' addressed by several German imitations of Defoe's hugely popular Robinson Crusoe.
Tuesday, Sept. 17 - 5 p.m.
McPherson, Room 2017
You are cordially invited to Society, Interrupted (again): German Imitations of Robinson Crusoe. This talk by Sarah Eldridge, associate professor of modern foreign languages and literature at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, uses the lens of cognitive narratology to investigate the 'representationally hungry problems' addressed by several German imitations of Defoe's hugely popular Robinson Crusoe.
It asks why authors and reading publics continually revisited the issue of a person or handful of people in isolation and their attempts to come to terms with nature, each other and themselves.
