Recently added articles from Goethe Yearbook:
Goethe's Reception of Ulrich von Hutten
Jan 01, 2008; Djazaerly, Yasser Derwiche ... TOWARD THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK of Dichtung und Wtthrheit, Goethe recalls his discovery of the works of the humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523):"DieWerke Ulrichs von Hutten kamen mir in die Hände und es schien wundersam genug daß in unsern neuern Tagen sich das Ähnliche, was dort ...
The School of Shipwrecks: Improvisation in Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung and the Lehrjahre
Jan 01, 2008; Holland, Jocelyn ... GOETHE'S TWENTY-SIX YEAR TENURE as director of the Weimar Theater gives little indication of an interest in improvisational acting. In 1803 he composed a comprehensive list of rules for the aspiring actor which includes guidelines for pronunciation, rhythmic delivery, posture, hand positions, ...
The Sublime, "Über den Granit," and the Prehistory of Goethe's Science
Jan 01, 2008; Powers, Elizabeth ... HIS SCIENTIFIC PURSUITS AND WRITINGS have merited Goethe a place in histories of science in the eighteenth century1 and there is a great body of scholarship that documents his work in various scientific fields.2 Recent studies, part of a wider reevaluation of the development of science in Europe ...
The Building in Bildung: Goethe, Palladio, and the Architectural Media
Jan 01, 2008; Purdy, Daniel L ... WELL BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHY and electronic networks encircled the planet, there existed a European migratory channel within which architectural images were carried across the Alps by tourists and pilgrims.1 Moving along well-established pathways, architectural drawings, treatises, and personal ...
Virgilian Retrospection in Goethe's Alexis und Dora
Jan 01, 2008; Germany, Robert ... GERMAN POETRY," SAYS FRIEDRICH KITTLER,"begins with a sigh" Ach, the signifier of ineffability at the center of the German word for language (Sprache), launches, in this case, the spate of elegiac production most closely associated with Goethe's classical lyric. Written from 12 to 14 May ...
Typologies of Repetition, Reflection, and Recurrence: Interpreting the Novella in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften
Jan 01, 2008; Gurganus, Albert E ... Und doch bei aller Unvollständigkeit des Literarwesens flnden wir tausendfältige Wiederholung, woraus hervorgeht, wie beschränkt des Menschen Geist und Schicksal sei. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maximen und Reflexionen IN THE TENTH CHAPTER OF THE SECOND PART of Die ...
Why Did Goethe Marry When He Did?
Jan 01, 2008; Schwartz, Peter J ... WHY DID GOETHE MARRY Christiane Vulpius, his companion of eighteen W years, on 19 October 1806, five days after Napoleon's victory over Prussia at the battle of Jena-Auerstedt? The act perplexed Weimar gossips at the time, angering some, and Goethe's motives for suddenly marrying then have been ...
Zum Verhältnis von Selbstsein und Miteinandersein in Goethes Urworte. Orphisch
Jan 01, 2008; Kristiansen, Børge ... "Sage deutlicher, wie und wenn; Du bist uns nicht immer klar." Gute Leute, wisst ihr denn, Ob ich es mir selber war. -Goethe MAN HAT MERHRMALS VERSUCHT den ganzen Gedichtzyklus Urworte. Orphisch im Sinne des Metamorphose-Gedankens und des dialektischen ...
Schiller's Die Räuber: Revenge, Sacrifice, and the Terrible Price of Absolute Freedom
Jan 01, 2008; Schweitzer, Christoph E ... THERE HAVE BEEN many excellent interpretations of Schiller's Die Räuber, beginning with Benno von Wiese's chapter in his Schiller1 up to the 1998 essay by Hans-Richard Brittnacher.2 Jaimey Fisher in an article published in the Goethe Yearbook in 2003 raises several issues that relate to my ...
Wallensteins Tod as a "Play of Mourning": Death and Mourning in the Aesthetics of Schiller's Classicism
Jan 01, 2008; Bahr, Ehrhard ... Jill A. Kowalik (1949-2003) in memoriam NUMEROUS CRITICS HAVE POINTED OUT that with the exception of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, the protagonists of his classical dramas die at the end: Wallenstein, Maria Stuart, Joan of Arc, and Don Manuel and Don Cesar, the two enemy ...
The New Man: Theories of Masculinity around 1800
Jan 01, 2008; Hohendahl, Peter Uwe ... RECENT HISTORICAL RESEARCH HAS PLACED considerable emphasis on the redefinition of masculinity around 1800. Scholars have rightly pointed to the French Revolution as a major event in the transformation of masculinity, an event that left its mark not only on France but also on other parts of ...
Love, Life, Goethe: Lessons of the Imagination from the Great German Poet
Jan 01, 2008; Powers, Elizabeth ... John Armstrong, Love, Life, Goethe: Lessons of the Imagination from the Great German Poet. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. xv + 483 pp. John Armstrong has had the idea for a book that I suspect many of us would like to write. His model is no doubt the series of charming books ...
The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe
Jan 01, 2008; Haque, Kamaal ... Richard Block, The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2006. 310 pp. Patrick Leigh Fermor felt it. Staying in Vienna on his way by foot from the Netherlands to Istanbul, the British traveler almost detoured south: It is a famous ...
Goethes Weimar und die Französische Revolution: Dokumente der Krisenjahre
Jan 01, 2008; Blair, John ... W. Daniel Wilson, ed., Goethes Weimar und die Französische Revolution: Dokumente der Krisenjahre. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2004. 746 pp. With this volume, W. Daniel Wilson provides an extensive collection of documents from Weimar and Jena in the years 1792-93, most of which had been ...
Goethes Verhältnis zur Romantik
Jan 01, 2008; Wickersham, Erlis ... Hartmut Fröschle, Goethes Verhältnis zur Romantik. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2002. 564 pp. This book is a major scholarly effort. It contains clear expositions, a logically organized table of contents, an excellent index and a bibliography arranged by subjects and ...
"Lebensmärchen": Goethes Dichtung und Wahrheit als poetischer und poetologischer Text
Jan 01, 2008; MacLeod, Catriona ... Gabriele Blod, "Lebensmärchen": Goethes Dichtung und Wahrheit als poetischer und poetologischer Text. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2003. 335 pp. Borrowing her title from Goethe's 1811 reference to the first books of his autobiography as "Lebensmärchen," a comment that is far from ...
Speculating on the Moment: The Poetics of Time and Recurrence in Goethe, Leopardi, and Nietzsche
Jan 01, 2008; Richter, Simon ... Nicholas Rennie, Speculating on the Moment: The Poetics of Time and Recurrence in Goethe, Leopardi, and Nietzsche. Göttingen:Wallstein Verlag, 2005.359 pp. We may be reluctant to admit it, but every interpretation is to some extent a wager. Most of us bet cautiously and are pleased with ...
Die Wallenstein-Trilogie von Friedrich Schiller: Walter Buttler in Geschichte und Drama
Jan 01, 2008; Bahr, Ehrhard ... Florian Krobb, Die Wallenstein-Trilogie von Friedrich Schiller: Walter Buttler in Geschichte und Drama. Reihe Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft, Bd. 99. Oldenburg: Igel Verlag Literatur, 2005. 122 pp. Der Titel dieses schmalen Bändchens ist insofern irreführend, als es in erster Linie ...
Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy and the Body in the German Enlightenment
Jan 01, 2008; Krimmer, Elisabeth ... Simon Richter, Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy and the Body in the German Enlightenment. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2006. 353 pp. Simon Richter's outstanding study Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment combines the erudition and thoroughness ...
The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice
Jan 01, 2008; Carter, William H ... John Pizer, The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2006. 190 pp. Goethe did not coin the term Weltliteratur, as John Pizer notes in his introduction. This distinction appears to belong to Christoph Martin Wieland, who used it in ...