My daughter Sara has a German test tomorrow on literary epochs and movements in Germanophone literature from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism, so she asked me to discuss the material with her. While my doctorate is in Comparative Literature, I had to take a Master's exam in a national literature, whose focus was on Germanophone literature in that very era from the 1750s to the 1980s. Since I work in an English Department now, I have done little work on Germanophone literature since finishing my degree in 1995. But I still managed to channel that history for her in a two-hour discussion this evening. I hope it helps her with the exam! (Andrew Shields, #111words, 18 March 2026)