Cornelia Wilde

Bio

Cornelia Wilde is a senior lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Her teaching and research focus on early modern and modernist literature, on the interplay of literature and music, and on transformations of antiquity.

Contributions

Teaching the Aesthetics of Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: Perspectives on the Dynamics of Life, Art, and Representation

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Thinking of aesthetics with reference to the Greek term aisthesis as both sense perception and the theory of the nature and perception of art and beauty, I read and teach Hope Mirrlees’s Paris as a particularly aesthetically-minded and meta-reflexive modernist poem that addresses questions about the dynamics of life, art, and representation. While Paris textualizes and aestheticizes Parisian reality, some of the poem’s formal modernist techniques make it particularly open and responsive to other...

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poetry pedagogy