Activity – Saskia Ziolkowski – Humanities Commons

Saskia Ziolkowski started the topic CFP: "Lessing and World Literature" (MLA 2017) in the discussion Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 10 years ago

Although Lessing’s examinations of literature in contrast to the other arts have been an object of considerable scholarly focus, Lessing is rarely mentioned in the many studies of world literature. Lessing’s absence contrasts with Goethe’s, who is well-known as being one of the earliest (often credited as being the earliest) theorist of world li…[Read more]
Saskia Ziolkowski deposited Dreams and Ambiguity on Svevo's European Stage: La rigenerazione & A Midsummer Night's Dream on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

This essay investigates Svevo’s engagement with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” I consider the various cultural conduits through which Svevo would have received Shakespeare’s play to reveal the necessity of thinking about Svevo in the context of a broader European and even world literary culture. I then put Shakespeare’s play into convers…[Read more]
Saskia Ziolkowski's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago
Saskia Ziolkowski became a registered member on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

Saskia Ziolkowski