1925: A Landmark Year in American Fiction
Talk and Discussion
Location: DAZ, Charlottenplatz 17, 70173 Stuttgart
Admission: Free
Language: English
Registration: Please register via anmeldung@daz.org
The Roaring Twenties: 1925 was a landmark year for American fiction – amongst others, F. Scott Fitzgerald exuded glitz and glamor with The Great Gatsby. However, the key works of the 1920s depict more than just the zeitgeist of the time; they reflect themes that are still relevant 100 years later.
The literature of this decade marked the beginning a new artistic age, as this presentation by Dr. Wolfgang Holtkamp and students of American literature from the University of Stuttgart will show. They will discuss modernist texts that express selfhood, consciousness, time, and urban life as well as on texts that illuminate the “Jazz Age.”
With: Dr. Holtkamp (University of Stuttgart) and students of the American Studies Literature Department
In cooperation with: The Department of American Literature and Culture at the University of Stuttgart