Julia Boll
Biographic Data
| ID | 6462534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Boll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Boll |
| SIGNATURE | BOLL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Desiring Walls: Fantasies of Containment and Reimagined British Pasts
In Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall (2018), an archaeology class pitches camp near Hadrian’s Wall, where they are joined by a local family in an experimental re-enactment of Iron Age Britain. The novel explores nostalgic nationalism, fantasies of nativism and racial supremacy, and the wish for containment and boundaries in a contemporary world perceived as having lost its cultural core. Following Wendy Brown’s suggestion to read the desire to erect border…
Is knowledge performative
In the summer term 2015, five academics at an interdisciplinary institution in Germany carried out the experiment of holding lectures in dialogue between a literature/theatre scholar and a scientist, on a stage, with performers and dancers. The series of four lectures explored a range of individual approaches to the subject of the experimental from the perspective of the sciences and of the theatre and outlined several conceptual overlaps between…
The New War Plays
How can war be represented on stage? How does the theatre examine the structures leading to violence and war and explore their transformation of societies? Springing from the discussion about 'New War
Palimpsest
‘I wish to enter a protest against the use of the Trojan Women or any other Greek tragedy as a means of furthering a peace movement, raising money for the Red Cross, or stirring up sentiment for any specific cause, however worthy’, it is stated in a complaint to The English Journal’s ‘Round Table’ section in 1915. 1 ‘These great expressions of Greek genius’, the author continues, have a message of their own which is of infinitely greater moment t…
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The New War Plays
How can war be represented on stage? How does the theatre examine the structures leading to violence and war and explore their transformation of societies? Springing from the discussion about 'New War
Palimpsest
‘I wish to enter a protest against the use of the Trojan Women or any other Greek tragedy as a means of furthering a peace movement, raising money for the Red Cross, or stirring up sentiment for any specific cause, however worthy’, it is stated in a complaint to The English Journal’s ‘Round Table’ section in 1915. 1 ‘These great expressions of Greek genius’, the author continues, have a message of their own which is of infinitely greater moment t…
Is knowledge performative
In the summer term 2015, five academics at an interdisciplinary institution in Germany carried out the experiment of holding lectures in dialogue between a literature/theatre scholar and a scientist, on a stage, with performers and dancers. The series of four lectures explored a range of individual approaches to the subject of the experimental from the perspective of the sciences and of the theatre and outlined several conceptual overlaps between…
Desiring Walls: Fantasies of Containment and Reimagined British Pasts
In Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall (2018), an archaeology class pitches camp near Hadrian’s Wall, where they are joined by a local family in an experimental re-enactment of Iron Age Britain. The novel explores nostalgic nationalism, fantasies of nativism and racial supremacy, and the wish for containment and boundaries in a contemporary world perceived as having lost its cultural core. Following Wendy Brown’s suggestion to read the desire to erect border…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works) · Antique (1 works)