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History and Theory of Autobiography: Introduction
17:30
History and Theory of Autobiography: Introduction
v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Říj 3 @ 17:30 – 19:00
 Lecturer: Klára Soukupová (Prague). Annotation: The genre of autobiography is often situated on borderline between fiction and non-fiction; autobiography refers to real characters and events, but at the same time it is a literary work[...]
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The Haunted: Writing the Self on the Edge. Icelandic Autobiographies in the Early Modern Age
17:30
The Haunted: Writing the Self on the Edge. Icelandic Autobiographies in the Early Modern Age
v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Říj 10 @ 17:30 – 19:00
Lecturer: Jürg Glauser (Zürich). Annotation: Icelandic literary culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries still bears many traces of the medieval tradition. This is also the case when it comes to representations of self-conceptions as expressed[...]
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The Hero: Imagining the Viking Life: (Pseudo)Autobiographical poetry in the Old Norse Legendary Sagas
17:30
The Hero: Imagining the Viking Life: (Pseudo)Autobiographical poetry in the Old Norse Legendary Sagas
v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Říj 17 @ 17:30 – 19:00
Lecturer: Carolyne Larrington (Oxford). Annotation: This lecture will talk about some of the ways in which the poetic form of ‚ævidrápur‘ (deeds of a life) functions within the fornaldarsaga genre in Old Norse. These autobiographically styled[...]
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The Self-Harmer: (Auto-)Biography and Self-Flagellation: Henry Suso’s Vita as a Guide to Finding One’s Own Cross
17:30
The Self-Harmer: (Auto-)Biography and Self-Flagellation: Henry Suso’s Vita as a Guide to Finding One’s Own Cross
v Faculty of Arts, room P319
Říj 31 @ 17:30 – 19:00
Lecturer: Jan Hon (Berkeley). Annotation: Henry Suso’s Vita narrates the life of a „Servant of Eternal Wisdom“ as a path from the state of sin to the state of „Gelassenheit“ (composure/serenity/“let-it-be-ness“) and unity with God. What[...]
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