Little People: The Ethics, Psychology, and Genre of Dwarfism in Goethe’s “Die neue Melusine”

March 22, 2013 14:00 – 16:00
Little People: The Ethics, Psychology, and Genre of Dwarfism in Goethe’s “Die neue Melusine”
Jane K.Brown, Professor Emerita, University of Washington
Odette Hall 323, 50 St. Joseph Street

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Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor Emerita for Western Civilization University of Washington.

Professor Brown’s books include several studies on Goethe and, more recently, Ironie und Objektivität: Aufsätze zu Goethe and The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner

Co-sponsored by: Joint Initiative for German and European Studies and
Centre for Comparative Literature