Goethe Yearbook 21
Publications of the Goethe Society of North America
Published on 1. July 2014
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-57113-598-8 (ISBN)
Description
New essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, including contributions by both eminent scholars and new voices.
The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world.
Volume 21 contains eleven articles, including contributions by leading scholars David Wellbery and Katharina Mommsen; innovative work on the reception of Goethe's works around 1900, on women writers, and on Goethe's contemporary Albrecht von Haller; theoretically sophisticated interpretations, including articles on concepts of space in Alexis and Doraand on notions of sacrifice in Faust; and interdisciplinary pieces ranging from a discussion of contemporary psychological and medical theories of ill humor in relation to Goethe's Werther and an economic reading ofGoethe's Faust to an analysis of illustrations of Goethe's works. The review section collects responses by eminent scholars to a wide swath of recent books on Goethe and his age, both in German and English.
Contributors: Liesl Allingham, William H. Carter, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, John B. Lyon, Waltraud Maierhofer, Catherine Minter, Katharina Mommsen, David Pan, Michael Saman, Leif Weatherby, David E. Wellbery.
Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California Davis. Book review editor Birgit Tautz is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.
The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world.
Volume 21 contains eleven articles, including contributions by leading scholars David Wellbery and Katharina Mommsen; innovative work on the reception of Goethe's works around 1900, on women writers, and on Goethe's contemporary Albrecht von Haller; theoretically sophisticated interpretations, including articles on concepts of space in Alexis and Doraand on notions of sacrifice in Faust; and interdisciplinary pieces ranging from a discussion of contemporary psychological and medical theories of ill humor in relation to Goethe's Werther and an economic reading ofGoethe's Faust to an analysis of illustrations of Goethe's works. The review section collects responses by eminent scholars to a wide swath of recent books on Goethe and his age, both in German and English.
Contributors: Liesl Allingham, William H. Carter, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, John B. Lyon, Waltraud Maierhofer, Catherine Minter, Katharina Mommsen, David Pan, Michael Saman, Leif Weatherby, David E. Wellbery.
Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California Davis. Book review editor Birgit Tautz is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.
Reviews / Votes
[D]emonstrates a healthy pluralism of approaches to the work of Goethe and to the broader German literary culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. . . . The breadth of approaches . . . is complemented by an explicit attempt to address a broader readership in one other important sense: in the case of English-language contributions [eight of eleven articles], the editors have established a new policy of providing English translations of all quotations . . . clearly a positive development . . . . This issue of the Goethe Yearbook is to be recommended [. . . and] gives clear evidence of the present strength and breadth in the study of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature in North America. * EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INTELLIGENCER *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Columbia, MD
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57113-598-8 (9781571135988)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Adrian Daub | Elisabeth Krimmer
Goethe Yearbook 21
E-Book
07/2014
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€48.99
Available for download
Persons
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
Content
On the Logic of Change in Goethe's Work
Space and Place in Goethe's "Alexis und Dora"
Countermemory in Karoline von Guenderrode's "Darthula nach Ossian": A Female Warrior, Her Unruly Breast, and the Construction of Her Myth
Bad Habits of the Heart: Werther's Critique of Ill Humor in the Context of Contemporary Psychological Thought
Confessions of a Childless Woman: Fictional Autobiography around 1800
Faust's Begehren: Revisiting the History of Political Economy in Faust II
Sacrifice in Goethe's Faust
Constructions of Goethe versus Constructions of Kant in German Intellectual Culture, 1900-1925
Das Innere der Natur und ihr Organ: von Albrecht von Haller zu Goethe
Die Titelkupfer von Moritz Retzsch zu Goethes Ausgabe letzter Hand
Zu Goethe und der Islam-Antwort auf die oft aufgeworfene Frage: War Goethe ein Muslim?
Book Reviews
Space and Place in Goethe's "Alexis und Dora"
Countermemory in Karoline von Guenderrode's "Darthula nach Ossian": A Female Warrior, Her Unruly Breast, and the Construction of Her Myth
Bad Habits of the Heart: Werther's Critique of Ill Humor in the Context of Contemporary Psychological Thought
Confessions of a Childless Woman: Fictional Autobiography around 1800
Faust's Begehren: Revisiting the History of Political Economy in Faust II
Sacrifice in Goethe's Faust
Constructions of Goethe versus Constructions of Kant in German Intellectual Culture, 1900-1925
Das Innere der Natur und ihr Organ: von Albrecht von Haller zu Goethe
Die Titelkupfer von Moritz Retzsch zu Goethes Ausgabe letzter Hand
Zu Goethe und der Islam-Antwort auf die oft aufgeworfene Frage: War Goethe ein Muslim?
Book Reviews