Media Aesthetics and Small Form: From Calendar Tale to Digital Microblogging

This talk by Fabian Goppelsroder asks, what influence does the calendar exert on the short stories published in it? To what extent is the newspaper responsible for the peculiar poetics of the so-called fait divers, the three-line memo of little scandals from across the street? And what exactly turns a tweet into twitterature? Goppelsroder studied philosophy and history in Berlin and Paris and got his PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. Currently he is a Feodor-Lynen-Fellow at the Department of Germanic Languages at University of Chicago. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Department of German, and the Comparative Literature Program. Free