94-04-08 Humanities and Culture Scholar Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht to Give Four Talks at U.Va. During April

HUMANITIES AND CULTURE SCHOLAR HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT
TO GIVE FOUR TALKS AT U.VA. DURING APRIL

     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 8 -- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht,
professor of literature at Stanford University and an
internationally known humanities scholar, will be a Distinguished
Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia Commonwealth Center
for Literary and Cultural Change this month.  He will give two
public lectures and two informal talks during his visit.
     On Tuesday, April 12, at 4 p.m. in his lecture titled
"Redeeming The Victory:  D'Annunzio, Mussolini and the Genealogy of
Fascism," he will discuss the concept of redemption in fascist
ideology and practice.  On the following Tuesday, April 19, at 4
p.m. he will attempt to explain the international triumph of
television in the years immediately following the end of World War
II.  Both lectures take place in the South Meeting Room of Newcomb
Hall. 
     On Friday, April 15, at 10 a.m. in the Visitors Lounge of
Newcomb Hall, he will speak informally on "The Hermeneutic Field
and the Non-Hermeneutic."  On the following Friday, April 22, also
at 10 a.m. in the Visitor's Lounge of Newcomb Hall he will discuss
"The Future of Literary Studies" from both an intellectual and an
institutional point of view.
     Born in West Germany in 1948, Gumbrecht has taught all over
the world and is now the Guerard Professor of Literature at
Stanford University.  He previously taught at the University of
Siegen, where he founded the first graduate school for literary
studies in Germany.
     He is the author of over 250 publications, including a history
of Spanish literature and monographs on Zola, the history of
aesthetic experience, and medieval narrative.  His most recent
publication in English is "Making Sense in Life and Literature."
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                                                    April 7, 1994

Karen A. Castle
University News Office
kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu
(804) 924-7116


[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Fri, 8 Apr 94 09:42:46 EDT]