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PACING OUT A POLYGLOT POETICS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ULRIKE DRAESNER AT THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
Author(s) -
Braun Rebecca
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
german life and letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1468-0483
pISSN - 0016-8777
DOI - 10.1111/glal.12186
Subject(s) - poetics , conversation , poetry , art , narrative , reading (process) , polyglot , painting , art history , literature , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , programming language
To what extent is reading a book like walking into a museum? In this conversation, held in early 2017 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Rebecca Braun and Ulrike Draesner explore how identities are forged in both language and material things, and how narratives, both poetic and prosaic, are spatially arranged. The conversation takes inspiration from material objects on display in the Europe Galleries of the museum to cast a fresh angle on Draesner's literary practice in her recent work: the novel, Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt , the poetry collection, subsong , and a new text that draws on the life in exile of the expressionist poet and painter Kurt Schwitters.