German Folklore, Castles

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 2, 2008

Dr. Chad Stebbins
(417) 625-9736

 

JOPLIN, MO (SNS) - Beverley Driver Eddy, Ph.D., a professor emeritus at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn., will speak twice at Missouri Southern State University on Friday, Sept. 5. Both presentations are free and open to the public.

 

* Dr. Eddy's first presentation, "German Folklore: A Key to History," will begin at 8 a.m., Friday Sept. 5 in W. Robert Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall.

 

Eddy will trace the history, architecture, and evolving romance of the German castle. While she will concentrate on the castles of the Rhine river valley, she will also discuss Germany's two best-known castles: Burg Eltz and Neuschwanstein.

 

* Dr. Eddy's second presentation, "The German Castle: From Fortress to Museum and Youth Hostel," will begin at 10 a.m. the same morning in W. Robert Corley Auditorium.

 

Although it is common to look at legends for their universal attributes, Dr. Eddy will examine them for their basis in fact, showing how most German legends about dragons and devils actually relate to specific historical events that occurred at specific sites in the Rhine river valley.

 

Beverley Driver Eddy has a Ph.D. in German from Indiana University, studied for two years at the Freie Universität Berlin, worked for a time as a bi-lingual tour guide at a German castle, and taught at Middlebury and Dickinson colleges. She specializes in German and Scandinavian literary relations, but has a strong secondary interest in German folklore, and has published on the folk history of the Rhine river valley and on the history of the fictional character Dracula.

 

She is presently writing a biography of Bambi author Felix Salten.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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