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Research thoughts and a link to Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey infos can be found at that site... (I'm getting back into the research/writing of my 2007 article--it was going to be on embodiment in Bettine von Arnim's works, but I'm drifting away from issues of embodiment--now I'm more focused on/ interested in issues pertaining to the textual self -- what is its relationship to the non-textual self? - of course this is Bettina von Arnim's textual self so issues of gender will also be pertinent.

And in the on-going game of "six degrees of seperation from Bettina von Arnim" it turns out Dilthey was heavily influenced by none other than Friedrich Schleiermacher--who was of course very good buddies with Bettina...

Tuesday, 03/20/07 My books for the new paper: Project 365: #141

Tuesday, 03/20/07: Project 365: #141 
Originally uploaded by cathie.

I'm still slogging away at this paper: I've presented it twice and am now transforming it (slowly slowly) into a publishable article. The focus may be moving away a bit from "female embodiment" and towards issues of agency and autonomy, but the feminist stuff will still play a role.

Hemlock/Schierling

I'm working hard on my new paper describing the way in which Bettine von Arnim depicts a poeticised version of her own body in her epistolary memoirs and the repercusssions of that depicition. (Notoriety, a tendency to not be taken seriously etc...) Here are some links's from Wikipedia about Hemlock/Schierling.  Von Arnim, describes this version of herself wandering through a wood at night and taking a hemlock leaf and pressing it to her lips...I'm not sure how dangerous it would really be to do this, or whether it is merely another example of the Bettine figure "flirting with disaster" - which probably would have been a snappier title for my paper....oh well maybe thats what I'll call the article!

Schierlingsbecher

Schierling

Hemlock/Conium

An interesting interview with a 10th century women writer

While researching a new course on German women writers that I'll be teaching in the Fall I came across another one of those "interviews with dead people, as if they were not dead" like the one I found a while ago (June 14, 2005 to be exact) with Hölderlin's great love Susette Gontard.  This time the interview is with the tenth century poet and playwright Hrosvit von Gandersheim.