Measuring the World
Primary text:
Kehlmann, Daniel, Measuring the world, trans. Carol Brown Janeway (London: Quercus, 2007)
Secondary reading (list to be continued):
Caroline Schaumann, 'Who Measures the World? Alexander von Humboldt’s Chimborazo Climb in the Literary Imagination', The German Quarterly 82.4 (Fall 2009), 447-468
Stuart Taberner, ‘Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World)’, in Taberner (ed.), The Novel in German since 1990, (Cambridge:CUP, 2011) pp. 255-69
von Tippelskirch, Karina, ‘Paradigms and Poetics in Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World’, Symposium, 63:3 (2009) 194-206
Seminar programme
week 9
Seminar questions week 9, Lecture ppt
week 10