The lecture will be in English. Excerpts to be discussed, from Müller's "Philoktet" and Kafka's short text "Prometheus," can be downloaded below in English as well as German. Photocopies of the German text of the play can be picked up from Julia Lee's office (Pigott Hall Building 260 room 212). An English translation of the Müller play can be downloaded from this site:< http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/234/ > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Rolf-Peter Janz is Professor of German literature at the Free University in Berlin. He is one of the leading scholars of Classicism, Romanticism, fin de siècle and Weimar culture. Questions of literary theory, aesthetics, and myth stand in the forefront of his research. His recent publications explore the interrelations of text and image, literary constructions of the foreign, and the cultural history of vertigo. He has held visiting positions in Bochum, Sydney, Naples and Fes (Morocco), as well as at the University of Kansas and the University of Pennsylvania.