Section III: Critical Practices
Taking the hypothesis that practices of public reception such as reviewing are grounded in specific notions of literature, authorship and aesthetic value, this section focuses on two key developments: the latest change in practices of reception and their relation to economic relations of power, and conflicts of valuation as they emerge from the (in)transparent criteria of valuation practices and the (im)possibility to differentiate between aesthetic and political value judgments in public reception. Both focal points consider developments of the last few decades but understand them as inspirations for discussing the history of practices of the public reception of literature in general.
Programme
10:15 – 11:45 | PANEL
NEW PRACTICES OF LITERARY RECEPTION
The Value(s) of Cultural Practice: Performing Social Mobility in London and Berlin.
Lianna Mark
Literary Value and the Question of Palestine: A Case Study of Raja Shehadeh's Life Writing
Sophia Brown
Affect as Aesthetic Judgement: Arabic Literature, Social Media and Vernacular Criticism
Christian Junge
Chair: Barbara Bausch
11:45 – 12:00 | Break
12:00 – 13:30 | ROUNDTABLE (in German)
Praktiken der Kritik – Ein Werkstattgespräch
Elke Buhr, Gregor Dotzauer, Georg Kasch, Ekkehard Knörer & Lea Schneider
Chair: Nadja Küchenmeister
13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00 | ROUNDTABLE
Whose Values, Which Politics? Defaults and Exclusions in the Public Reception of Literature
Maryam Aras, Dominique Haensell, Girish Shambu & Ana Teixeira Pinto
Chair: Till Kadritzke