Princeton: Workshop, Fantasies of Power

An Afternoon Workshop

Julianne Werlin (Duke University): ‘Naming and Political Necessity.’

Déborah Blocker (University of California, Berkeley): ‘Pairing it – or not?: Materiality, Spirituality and Politics in Jacopo Peri’s and Ottavio Rinuccini’s Euridice (1600) and Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607).’

Kirill Ospovat (St. Petersburg/Princeton University): ‘Fiat Lux: Tropes of Incorporation in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Ode.’

Joel Lande (Princeton University): ‘The Logic of Literary Improvement.’

Albrecht Koschorke (Konstanz University): ‘Poetic Jurists, Geniuses in Office, Romantic Bureaucrats: Administration and Poetry in Early Modern Germany.’