{"id":8217,"date":"2023-08-18T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T20:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=8217"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:22:02","slug":"body-shaming-obscenity-materiality-and-the-ontology-of-german-realist-literature","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/event\/body-shaming-obscenity-materiality-and-the-ontology-of-german-realist-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Shaming: Obscenity, Materiality, and the Ontology of German Realist Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Erica Weitzman<\/strong> (PhD, Comparative Literature, NYU, 2012) is Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University. She is the author of Irony\u2019s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition<\/em> (Northwestern University Press, 2015) and co-editor of the volume Suspensionen. \u00dcber das Untote<\/em> (Fink, 2015). Her most recent book, At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter<\/em> (Northwestern University Press, 2021), examines the concept of obscenity as a question of representation, perception, ontology, and affect in the context of the history of German realism from Stifter to Kafka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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