Dinner Speech - Eva von Contzen
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Material Desire and the Form of the List
| When |
Nov 08, 2017
from 05:30 PM to 06:00 PM |
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| Where | FRIAS, Albertstr. 19, Seminar Room |
| Contact Name | Heike Kleditzsch |
| Contact Phone | (0)761 203 97600 |
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Literary texts often use the form of the list to depict economic concerns. In doing so, the texts draw on everyday practices of list-making, such as inventories, shopping lists, gift lists, and wish lists. Against the backdrop of such practical lists which manage our consumption and consumerism, I will focus on ‘economic’ lists in literary texts, in particular those that depict love as a quantifiable and manageable good that entangles the lovers in a web of (material) desires.
