#  German Studies Seminar - Thomas Pfau (Duke University) on "Modernist Image-Consciousness and Lyric Form: Rilke's Encounter with Cézanne" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 29, 2020** 

 03:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Virtual**  



 

 



 

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Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University and holds secondary appointments in Germanic Languages & Literature and the Divinity School. He is the author of some fifty essays and of *Wordsworth’s Profession* (Stanford 1997), *Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, Melancholy, 1790-1840* (Johns Hopkins 2005), and *Minding the Modern: Intellectual Traditions, Human Agency, and Responsible Knowledge* (Notre Dame 2013). He is currently finishing a new monograph ranging from Plato to Rilke—a complement to *Minding the Modern* and provisionally titled “Incomprehensible Certainty: Image Consciousness in Philosophy, Theology, and Aesthetics.” [View lecture abstract.](/files/german/files/thomas_pfau_lecture_2020.docx)

 The event is part of the German Studies: New Perspectives Seminar at the [Mahindra Humanities Center](http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/).

 Pre-registration is required. Register [here](https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/modernist-image-consciousness-and-lyric-form-rilkes-encounter-c%C3%A9zanne).



 

 



 

 See also:- [ GSAS Germanic Forum/Germanic Circle ](/event-type/gsas-germanic-forumgermanic-circle)
 
 

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