Mit dem Verhältnis von Literatur, Philosophie und Rhetorik im Zeichen der Unsichtbarkeit setzt sich ein neuer Aufsatz auseinander: “Compound Invisible Objects”: Moralischer Charakter, literarische Figur und die Gyges-Problematik bei Adam Smith und Eliza Haywood. Herausgegeben ist er von Wolfgang G. Müller und Rainer Thiel als Teil von Band 5 (2022) der Internationalen Zeitschrift Kulturkomparatistik mit dem Themenschwerpunkt „Literatur – Philosophie – Ästhetik“. Der Volltext ist verfügbar unter: https://izfk.uni-trier.de/index.php/izfk/article/view/IZFK-5-08-Compound-Invisible-Objects/66

The chapter is on Poe’s “The Devil in the Belfry” and “William Wilson” in particular, and it’s part of a great handbook of The American Short Story, edited by Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding: please click here for the abstract

As part of the international lecture series on „Invisible Lives, Silent Voices“, I’m very happy to be speaking about „The Invisible Author, Then and Now“ in the session on „Invisible Writers“ this Thursday on 9 December, 6pm. In the same session, Christine Reynier will be speaking about „Invisible Novels of the Interwar Period: The Case of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)“. For access to the Zoom meeting, please contact the organizers at invisibilitysilence@gmail.com or drop me a line.

The international seminar „Invisible Lives, Silent Voices“ is organised by Alice Borrego, Guillaume Le Blanc, and Héloïse Lecomte. You can find out about the other sessions here: https://invisibilitysilence.wordpress.com/programme/

My article on „Unseeing People: Towards a Clear View of Invisible Characters in Narrative Fiction“ has just come out in Études britanniques contemporaines: https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.11098.

The article is connected to an ongoing conversation about invisibility and silence: check out the programme for the international seminar „Invisible Lives, Silent Voices“, organised by Alice Borrego, Guillaume Le Blanc, and Héloïse Lecomte: https://invisibilitysilence.wordpress.com/programme/

As part of this seminar, I’m very happy to be speaking about „The Invisible Author, Then and Now“ in the session on „Invisible Writers“ on 9 December, 6pm. For access to the online meeting, please contact the organizers at invisibilitysilence@gmail.com

If you like to view a recording of this event, please get in touch with me!

I’m very glad that Jim Phelan will be responding to my lunchtime talk at CAS on 18 November, titled „On Narrative Invisibility“. The event will be held online via Zoom on Thursday, 18 November at 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CET. Please drop me an email or write to CAS to join us:

„On Narrative Invisibility“ – Join us for the lunch time talk by @CASResearcher in Residence Gero Guttzeit @LMU_Muenchen in conversation with James Phelan @OhioState
👉 Livestream, Thursday, 18 November, 5 p.m. (CET)
👉 register at: info@cas.lmu.de pic.twitter.com/10gzl9M4KE— CAS_LMU (@cas_lmu) November 12, 2021

My review of Tom F. Wright’s highly recommendable collection Transatlantic Rhetoric: Speeches from the American Revolution to the Suffragettes has just come out with Rhetorica. You can read it here.