September 17, 2019
All Day
McPherson, Room 2017
You are cordially invited
Society, Interrupted (again):
German Imitations of Robinson Crusoe
This talk uses the lens of cognitive narratology to investigate the 'representationally hungry problems' addressed by several German imitations of Defoe's hugely popular Robinson Crusoe.
It asks why authors and reading publics continually revisited the issue of a person or handful of people in isolation, their attempts to come to terms with nature, each other, and themselves.
