{"id":852,"date":"2019-03-10T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/?p=852"},"modified":"2019-10-29T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:46:05","slug":"11-december-dr-john-attridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2019\/03\/10\/11-december-dr-john-attridge\/","title":{"rendered":"11 December: Dr. John Attridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>19C Seminar Series: Dr. John Attridge (U New South Wales), \u2018Live for Me: Vicarious Experience and Aesthetic Education in <em>The Ambassadors <\/em>and <em>Wilhelm Meister\u2019s Apprenticeship\u2019<\/em>, 5-7pm, Arts 103<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-856 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/03\/Attridge_Poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2358\" height=\"3334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/03\/Attridge_Poster.jpg 2358w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/03\/Attridge_Poster-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/03\/Attridge_Poster-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/03\/Attridge_Poster-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/03\/Attridge_Poster-177x250.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A capacity for vicarious experience is one of Lambert Strether\u2019s most celebrated characteristics, apparent not only in his famous injunction to Little Bilham to \u201cLive all you can\u201d, but also in his more general attitude to Chad Newsome\u2019s life in Paris, which he proposes, at one point, to regard as a substitute for his own youth. This incorrigible tendency to live his life through the experiences of others might seem to conflict with the goals of <em>Bildung <\/em>or aesthetic education, since, if nothing else, the experiences that constitute such an education ought surely to be one\u2019s own. But although the <em>Bildungsroman<\/em> as a genre is often thought to be concerned with the formation of an individual subject, the concept of <em>Bildung<\/em> articulated by Goethe and his Weimar associates in the 1790s in fact assigns a particular importance to the idea of vicarious experience. In the archetypal <em>Bildungsroman<\/em>, <em>Wilhelm Meister\u2019s Apprenticeship<\/em>, Wilhelm\u2019s education is not complete until he can see himself as a \u201crepresentative of the species\u201d, in Schiller\u2019s phrase, and thus seek consolation for his own limitations in the achievements of other human beings. In James\u2019s\u00a0\u201cLive all you can\u201d, this paper argues, we can hear an echo of the &#8220;Gedenke zu leben!&#8221;\u2014\u201cRemember to live!\u201d\u2014which adorns the uncle\u2019s tomb in a key scene of <em>Wilhelm Meister<\/em>. Taking this resonance as a point of departure,\u00a0I suggest that James\u2019s portrait of vicarious fulfilment\u00a0is not a deviation from the tradition of the <em>Bildungsroman,<\/em> but a realisation of one of the genre\u2019s originary possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19C Seminar Series: Dr. John Attridge (U New South Wales), \u2018Live for Me: Vicarious Experience and Aesthetic Education in The Ambassadors and Wilhelm Meister\u2019s Apprenticeship\u2019, 5-7pm, Arts 103 &nbsp; A capacity for vicarious experience is one of Lambert Strether\u2019s most celebrated characteristics, apparent not only in his famous injunction to Little Bilham to \u201cLive all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2019\/03\/10\/11-december-dr-john-attridge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;11 December: Dr. John Attridge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}