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Solvejg Nitzke, « Trees, Stories, and Academia, or: What Literature has to do with Anything », Ecological Imaginaries, ID : 10670/1.9uchfo
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In the very first session of the introduction to Comparative Literature at Ruhr-Uni Bochum, we were taught how to justify picking this subject to our parents. While I have told this anecdote a number of times as a funny twist on how my mother might have been the only person in the entire world who was actually relieved that her daughter decided to go for literature as her subject, I never quite lost the feeling of that first contact with what is now my profession. The feeling is an almost par...