THE PLASTICITY OF TIME Morphology in the

Twentieth Century

The Duke University Department of German cordially invites you to the inaugural Duke in Berlin lecture

Response by

Prof. Thomas Pfau

Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and Chair

of the Department of German, Duke University

TUESDAY 21 JUNE 2016 - 4PM

Seminar room 0.07 EG, Georgenstraße 47, Humboldt University, Berlin

The event will be followed by a reception.

http://german.duke.edu/events

In the context of his morphology, Goethe

developed a technique of sequential formation

that influenced several very di�erent twentieth

century theorists. This lecture deals with four of them:

Wentworth D'Arcy Thompson, Andre Jolles, George

Kubler, and Franco Moretti.

Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen

Director of Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung

Berlin and Professor of Europäische Kultur- und

Wissensgeschichte, Humboldt University

Photo: Uwe Dettmar, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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