German Quarterly back issues from January 2008:
Note from the Editor
Jan 01, 2008; ... Volume 81 of The German Quarterly is "new" in two unaccustomed ways. First, we are now allied with the international publisher Wiley Blackwell. We hope to reach more readers, to have a more alluring cover design-and to arrive on your desks with a more predictable punctuality. Second, we ...
Credibility: The Next Challenge Responses to Katherine Arens
Jan 01, 2008; ... ALBRECHT CLASSEN University of Arizona The challenge posed by KatherineArens is most welcome, and it is one that every scholar/scientist must face from time to time to revisit the fundamental principles of his/her work in methodological and philosophical terms. She rightly ...
Trauer und Identität: Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters
Jan 01, 2008; ... Koch, Elke. Trauer und Identität: Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. 319 pp. euro98.00 hardcover. Elke Koch's study of sadness and its functions in medieval German literature, already crowned as the best dissertation for ...
Genres and the Standards: Teaching the 5 C's through Texts
Jan 01, 2008; ... This essay presents a heuristic designed to challenge both the language-teaching and the literature-teaching sides of a typical language-and-literature department by offering a reconceptualization of what it means to teach language and literature as texts in different genres, anchored in their ...
Constructing Interiority in Eighteenth-Century Narrative Fiction: Wieland's Geschichte des Agathon
Jan 01, 2008; ... The representation of interiority is often thought of as the special preserve of fiction, in fact as one of the signal characteristics that distinguish fiction both from non-fictional genres like historiography and from other media, like film.1 In fact, this turf, which fiction has indeed very ...
What Kind of Resource Is Language and Why Does It Matter for German Studies?
Jan 01, 2008; ... I first considered the question posed in the title of this paper in conjunction with a DAAD-sponsored symposium at Michigan State University, entitled "Engaged Learning: Best Practices to Invigorate German Literary and Cultural Studies." As I revisit the question a year later, I return to the ...
The Gender of Terror: War as (Im)Moral Institution in Kleist's Hermannsschlacht and Penthesilea
Jan 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction When we think of German enthusiasm for war, the eighteenth century does not spring to mind. After all, the Enlightenment is the Age of Reason whereas war represents the failure of reason. Tellingly, the foremost philosopher of the time, Immanuel Kant, theorized not only ...
Goethe's Werther and the Critics
Jan 01, 2008; ... Duncan, Bruce. Goethe's Werther and the Critics. Rochester: Camden House, 2005. 200 pp. $75.00 hardcover. Goethe's Werther and the Critics provides an extensive summary of scholarship on Goethe's Werther and an important and useful overview of the main currents of Werther scholarship in ...
Why Is It so Difficult to Teach Language as Culture?
Jan 01, 2008; ... In her much quoted article in Profession 2002, titled "Traffic in Meaning: Translation, Contagion, Infiltration," Mary Louise Pratt reflects on the difficulty of communication across cultures using the example of the clash in worldviews between the conquered Incas in Peru and the Spanish Crown ...
Winds of Change? How Do We Teach Literature in a Collegiate Environment?
Jan 01, 2008; ... The unexpected fare that you are reading in this issue of the German Quarterly1 is the result of discussions at a DAAD-sponsored symposium at Michigan State University, entitled "Engaged Learning: Best Practices to Invigorate German Literary and Cultural Studies," and subsequent discussions at ...
Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality
Jan 01, 2008; ... Schultz, James. Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 224 pp. $39.00 hardcover. In his new book, James A. Schultz provides a reading of the concept of courtly love in the German Middle Ages that is informed by ...
The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe
Jan 01, 2008; ... Block, Richard. The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. 310 pp. $54.95 cloth. The title of Block's study alludes to these central concerns: To what extent do those German and Austrian writers who follow Goethe to ...
A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Jan 01, 2008; ... Fischer, Barbara, and Thomas C. Fox, eds. A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Less/Kg. Rochester: Camden House, 2005. 432 pp. $99.00 hardcover. The Companion is the first English-language introduction to Lessing and his work, rather than to individual works, as the title appears ...
Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth
Jan 01, 2008; ... Fenves, Peter. Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth. New York: Routledge, 2003. 224 pp. $36.95 hardcover. Peter Fenves critically engages Immanuel Kant through an original and intriguing reading of the latter's post-critical writings. Fenves's account of the late Kant displays an ...
German Orientalisms
Jan 01, 2008; ... Kontje, Todd. German Orientalisms. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004. 316pp. $35.00 hardcover. German Orientalisms is distinguished on many accounts, not the least of which is the author 's ability to read history and literature as a complex set of relations that ...
Augen-Spiel. Jean Pauls optische Metaphorik der Unsterblichkeit
Jan 01, 2008; ... Eickenrodt, Sabine. Augen-Spiel. Jean Pauls optische Metaphorik der Unsterblichkeit. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006. 391 pp. euro46.00 hardcover. Auf anregende Weise verknüpft die Autorin ihre Studien zur optischen Metaphorik, zu blinden Protagonisten, Starstechern, Augenleiden und ...
Broch's 1903: Esch oder die Anarchie: Desiring the Abject Outside
Jan 01, 2008; ... When Hermann Broch created his trilogy Die Schlafwandler, published in 1930, he did so with a distinct and ambitious aim: to articulate his understanding of a crisis in modern existence, of a profound realignment in the manner in which human beings function in their world and interact with one ...
Das Dilemma des weiblichen Ich
Jan 01, 2008; ... Cornejo, Renata. Das Dilemma des weiblichen Ich. Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2006. 245 pp. euro25.00 paperback. Mit ihrer literaturwissenschaftlichen Studie versucht Cornejo die postfeministischen Identitäts- und Subjektivitätskonzepte der drei französischen Theoretikerinnen Hélène Cixous, ...
A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000
Jan 01, 2008; ... Kohl, Katrin, and Ritchie Robertson, eds. A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000. Rochester: Camden House, 2006. 336 pp. $90.00 hardcover. "Die spezifische Besonderheit der österreichischen Literatur ist zwar nicht leicht zu bestimmen, aber jeder empfindet sie," wusste der ...
Gelesene Wirklichkeit. Fakten und Fiktionen in der Literatur
Jan 01, 2008; ... Klüger, Ruth. Gelesene Wirklichkeit. Fakten und Fiktionen in der Literatur. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006. 220 pp. euro22.00 hardcover. Gelesene Wirklichkeit enthält eine sinnvoll zusammengestellte Auswahl von Ruth Klügers Essays, Ansprachen und Gastvorlesungen aus den letzten zwölf Jahren, ...
Lexikon deutschsprachiger Epik und Dramatik von Autorinnen (1730-1900)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Loster-Schneider, Gudrun, and Gaby Ruler, eds. Lexikon deutschsprachiger Epik und Dramatik von Autorinnen (1750-1900). Includes CD-ROM. Tübingen: Francke, 2006. 491 pp. euro128.00 hardcover. Das Lexikon deutschsprachiger Epik und Dramatik ist ein lang erwartetes Desiderat. Die wenigen ...
German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature and Politics
Jan 01, 2008; ... Leydecker, Karl, ed. German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature and Politics. Rochester: Camden House, 2006. 296 pp. $85.00 hardcover. Karl Leydecker's survey of Weimar novelists is the first comprehensive assessment of Weimar literature in English since David ...