Научни форум Универзитета у Новом Саду
University of Novi Sad
Scientific Forum
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Place: Conference Hall
Trg Dositeja Obradovića 5, 3rd floor
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2004
Time: 11:00 am
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Presents
Literature as Cultural Memory:
The “Nibelungenlied” and and the
“Chanson de Roland”
Lecturer:Joep Leerssen, PhD
Professor of Modern
European Literature
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| Abstract |
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Many medieval texts, which had sunk into obscurity in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were rediscovered in the early
decades of the 19th century. In the new climate of scientific philology
and national nation building, these texts acquired a new symbolical
status: that of "national epics". In exploring the case of the
rediscovered “Nibelungenlied” in Germany and the “Chanson de Roland” in
France, this lecture aims to demonstrate how literary history is not
just the history of production and innovation, but also the history of
reception, retrieval and historical consciousness." It would be nice to
have an overhead projector, though I can also do without. I assume there
is one? How many people do you expect in case I want to give out
handouts?
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Professor Joep
Leerssen studied Comparative Literature and English at the University
of Aachen and Anglo-Irish Studies at University College Dublin. He took
his PhD in 1986 at the University of Utrecht. In that year he was
appointed at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained the chair
in Modern European Literature in 1991. He has been director of the
Huizinga Institute (Dutch National Research Institute for Cultural
Studies) since 1995. Research interests are in the following fields:
imagology: theory and history of national and cross-cultural stereotype;
history of cultural nationalism in Europe; Irish literary and cultural
history. Courses taught over the last five years: European
multinationality; History of national thought in Europe, English
literature, 1800-1914; European literature: a survey; The status of the
author and of authorship from ancient epic to the present.
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