The Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Department at Paderborn University, together with the University of Tübingen, invites you to a conference on the ‘Christian marvellous’.
The ‘Christian marvellous’ (‘merveilleux chrétien’/‘meraviglioso cristiano’) is a central, yet often controversial and contested concept in European poetics and literary history of the early modern period, which characterises canonical works such as Torquato Tasso's ‘Gerusalemme liberata’, John Milton's ‘Paradise lost’ or Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's ‘Messiah’. Despite its prominence in poetological discourse between the 16th and 18th centuries, especially in the context of Aristotle's reception, the concrete literary modelling of the ‘Christian miraculous’, its relationship to the poetological debate on the one hand and to religious practices and theological discourses on the other, has only been researched sporadically. This double tension of literary practices will be the focus of the conference.
The organisers of the colloquium invite participants to discuss the question of the conceptual status and legitimacy of the ‘Christian miraculous’ based on paradigmatic literary texts from all genres. Further information and the complete programme can be found on the Comparative Literature website.
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