Workshop on The Aesthetics of the Fragment in Anglo-German Literary Modernism

1 June 2018

Time: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Venue: Lockkeepers' Cottage

Organizer: Dr. Kaltërina Latifi, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR)

This exploratory workshop is designed to investigate aspects of the legacy of the Romantic fragment in literary and philosophical discourses in English and German literature around 1900. Its aims are:

-To explore intellectual synergies between literary theory, aesthetic theory, art history and music
-To identify thematic overlaps and differences in those respective disciplines
-To consider cultural parameters around 1900 that suggested the fragment as a desired form of expression
-To investigate matters of intentionality behind the fragment as a form of art
-To consider examples in the reception of fragmentary works as well as the legacy of Romantic theory in this reception

Programme: 

 
10.00 – 10.15  Welcome and Introduction (Kaltërina Latifi)
 
10.15 – 10.45  James Vigus: Coleridge and Hofmannsthal: A Fragmentary Affinity
 
10.45 – 11.15 Richelle Whitehead: Nietzsche and Fragments 
 
11.15 – 11.30 Coffee
 
11.30 – 12.00 Kaltërina Latifi: T.S. Eliot, Fragments and Ruins
 
 
12.00 – 14.00 Lunch
 
 
14.00 – 14.30 Leena Eilittä: The Romantic undercurrents in the fragmentary writing of the Viennese Modernism
 
14.30 – 15.00 Josh Torabi: Fragments of Music and Madness in James Joyce’s Ulysses
 
15.00 – 15.30 Tea
 
15.30 – 16.00 Mark Leipacher: Reflections on Fragmentary Practices in the Theatre