Patricia Anne Simpson & Birgit Tautz 
Goethe Yearbook 26 [PDF ebook] 

This year’s volume is highlighted by a special section on Goethe’s narrative events in addition to a range of other articles from emerging and established scholars.






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 26 features a special section on Goethe’s narrative events, with contributions on ‘Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe’s ‘Ballade’ vs. Hoffmann’s
Der Sandmann, ‘ ‘The Absence of Events in
Die Wahlverwandtschaften, ‘ and ‘Countering Catastrophe: Goethe’s
Novelle in the Aftershock of Kleist.’ This issue also showcases work presented atthe 2017 Atkins Goethe Conference (Re-Orientations around Goethe), including contributions by Eva Geulen on morphology and W. Daniel Wilson on the Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich. In addition there are articles by emerging and established scholars on Klopstock, Schiller, Goethe and objects, dark green ecology, and texts of the
Goethezeit and beyond through the lens of world literature. Book reviews conclude the volume.


Contributors: Lisa Marie Anderson, Thomas O. Beebee, Fritz Breithaupt, Christopher Chiasson, Patrick Fortmann, Sean Franzel, Eva Geulen, Willi Goetschel, Stefan Hajduk, Samuel Heidepriem, Bryan Klausmeyer, Lea Pao, Elizabeth Powers, James Shinkle, Heather I. Sullivan, Christian P. Weber, W. Daniel Wilson, Karin A. Wurst.


The
Goethe Yearbook is edited, beginning with this volume, by Patricia Anne Simpson, Professor of German and Chairperson of Modern Languages at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Birgit Tautz, George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College. Book Review Editor is Sean Franzel, Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Tabella dei contenuti

REORIENTATIONS AROUND GOETHE I

Morphologie und gegenständliches Denken – Eva Geulen

REORIENTATIONS AROUND GOETHE II

‘Global Mission’: The Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich – W. Daniel Wilson

SPECIAL SECTION on GOETHE’S NARRATIVE EVENTS

What Is an Event for Goethe? – Fritz Breithaupt

Much Ado about Nothing? The Absence of Events in
Die Wahlverwandtschaften – Christopher Chiasson

Countering Catastrophe: Goethe’s
Novelle in the Aftershock of Heinrich von Kleist – Lisa Marie Anderson

Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe’s ‘Ballade’ versus Hoffmann’s
Der Sandmann – Christian P. Weber

Remembering Klopstock’s
Mitausdruck – Lea Pao

Strategic Indecision: Gender and Bureaucracy in Schiller’s
Maria Stuart – Samuel Heidepriem

The Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe’s Plants in
Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären and
Triumph der Empfindsamkeit – Heather I. Sullivan

The Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe’s Plants in
Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären and
Triumph der Empfindsamkeit – James Shinkle

Abschlussbewegungen: Goethe, Freud, and Spectral Forms of Life – Bryan Klausmeyer

Ein Mythos und sein doppelter Entzug des Modernen: Prämissen für einen Ausweg aus der Unübersichtlichkeit der Faustforschung – Stefan Hajduk

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Conversation with Things – Karin A. Wurst

World Literature Turns Political, 1835/36: The Early Afterlife of Goethe’s Pronouncement in German Cultural-Politics and in the Young Germany Movement – Patrick Fortmann

Fritz Strich and the Dilemmas of World Literature Today – Elizabeth Powers

A Jewish
Faust Commentary: Notes on Franz Rosenzweig’s
The Star of Redemption – Willi Goetschel

From
Idylle to
idílio: Mário de Andrade’s Parody of
Hermann und Dorothea – Thomas O. Beebee

Koselleck’s Timely Goethe? – Sean Franzel

Book Reviews

Circa l’autore

SEAN FRANZEL is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri-Columbia, MO.