Canonical Pressures: German Literature and its Voices of Difference

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1 Earlier versions of the papers were presented at the Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium in 2022 entitled “Canonical Pressures: German Literature and its Voices of Difference.” The co-organizers Tanvi Solanki and Willi Goetschel wish to thank the DAAD with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) and the German Department at the University of Toronto for their generous support.

2 Renata Fuchs, “Digital Media Network Projects: Classroom Inclusivity Through a Symphilosophical Approach,” in Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies, ed. Regina Criser and Ervin Malakaj (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 215.

3 See https://diekanon.org.

4 David Gramling, “Dear Incoming Graduate Student Colleague,” in Criser and Malakaj, Diversity, 18.

5 See Hanna Engelmeier, “Bemerkungen zur jüngsten Kanon-Debatte,” Merkur 73 (2019): 85–92.

6 Willi Goetschel and David Suchoff, “Displaced Philologies,” The Germanic Review 93.1 (2018): 1–6, here 1–2. Till Dembeck has provided compelling evidence to the multilingual aspects of German philology, and in fact the most canonical work of German literature, Goethe’s Faust is an instance of multilingual philology in Till Dembeck, “Multilingual Philology and Monolingual Faust: Theoretical Perspectives and a Reading of Goethe’s Drama,” German Studies Review 41.3 (2018): 567–88.

7 James Diggle, Bruce L. Fraser, Patrick James, Oliver B. Simkin, Alexandra A. Thompson, and Simon J. Westripp, eds., The Cambridge Greek Lexicon, vol. 2 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 743.

8 For an elaboration of “listening to difference” as theory and practice, see Tanvi Solanki, “Listening to Difference: Herder’s Aural Theory of Cultural Diversity in ‘The Treatise on the Origin of Language’ (1772),” History of European Ideas 48.7 (2022): 930–47.

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Tanvi Solanki

Tanvi Solanki is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College. A guiding concern of her work is to develop critical methodologies for investigating the role of sound in concepts and practices of difference, diversity, and alterity within the German literary and philosophical canon.