School of English, Media and Performing Arts Seminar Series 5pm Wednesday 28th March, Rm 327, level 3 Webster Building, UNSW The City as Narrator? Transformations of the Metropolitan Narrative in Weimar Germany and Beyond Prof. Klaus R. Scherpe, Humboldt University, Berlin Abstract: In this seminar I want to address the ‘narrativity’ of cities in the discourse of modernity (not modernism at large) that was constituted in Germany in a distinct way. My discussion will consider the re- perceptions of the metropolis in the scripts of Kracauer, Doeblin, Moholy-Nagy and others. I will examine changes in symbolic speech and imaginary expansions of time and space and link the modernist problem of narrating the city to present day techniques—techniques that push beyond the limits of a classical Anglo-European discourse of modernity. All Welcome! Professor Scherpe's visit has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW. Seminar Conveners: A/Prof George Kouvaros & Dr Michelle Langford If you wish to be removed from this mailing list please email [log in to unmask] Dr Michelle Langford Associate Lecturer School of English, Media and Performing Arts The University of New South Wales Sydney 2052 Australia Room: Webster 311O Phone: + 61 2 9385 4489 Fax: + 61 2 9385 6812 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]