Hallo allerseits,
Arno Böhler hat uns gebeten, die nachfolgende Einladung zum Vortrag von
Dominik Zechner über Edgar Allan Poe und Essex Hemphill mit euch zu teilen.
Beste Grüße
Mia Kaven für Khôra
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The FWF Project "Arts in Philosophy : Philosophy in the Arts" warmly
invites you to the upcoming lecture:
*Dominik Zechner"Crimes of the Heart"*
June 18th, 2026, 18:30 – 20:00
Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7
Hörsaal 3D, University of Vienna
Although separated by more than a century and shaped by radically different
historical conditions, Edgar Allan Poe and Essex Hemphill correspond in
unexpected ways. This lecture places Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" alongside
Hemphill's poem "Voices" in order to explore the heart as an acoustic
chamber where secrecy, guilt, desire, and violence become audible.
Dominik Zechner is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature
at Rutgers University, USA. His work focuses on modernist literature,
literary theory, and the philosophy of language. He is the author of Kafka
und das Problem der Endlichkeit (Sonderzahl, 2024) and The Violence of
Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2024).
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