Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on Goethe and visual culture.
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 23 features a special section on visual culture with contributions on the visual aesthetics of Goethe’s 1815 production of
Proserpina (Bersier); on the
Farbenlehre (Lande); on Tableaux Vivants in Goethe’s
Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Solanki); on the relationship between Goethe and C. G. Carus and their respective views on the representation of nature in art and science (Allert); and on visual and verbal bricolage in Clemens Brentano’s
Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia (Mac Leod). There are also articles on Goethe and ancient mystery religions (Amrine); on Goethe’s fairy-tale aesthetics (Brown); on the concept of neutrality (Holland); on the concept of the mathematical infinite (Smith); on virginity and maternity in
Werther (Nossett); on the Classical aesthetics of Schlegel’s
Lucinde (ter Horst); and on motherless creations in
Faust (Nielsen).
Contributors: Beate Allert, Frederick Amrine, Gabrielle Bersier, Jane K. Brown, Jocelyn Holland, Joel B. Lande, Catriona Mac Leod, Wendy C. Nielsen, Lauren Nossett, John H. Smith, Tanvi Solanki, Eleanor ter Horst.
Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California Davis. Bookreview editor Birgit Tautz is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.
Mục lục
Building Bridges: Goethe’s Fairy-Tale Aesthetics
Goethe as Mystagogue
Observing Neutrality, circa 1800
Goethe,
Faust, and Motherless Creations
Impossible Ideals: Reconciling Virginity and Maternity in Goethe’s
Werther
Kant, Calculus, Consciousness, and the Mathematical Infinite in Us
The Classical Aesthetics of Schlegel’s
Lucinde
Acquaintance with Color: Prolegomena to a Study of Goethe’s
Zur Farbenlehre
‘Hamiltonian-Hendelian’ Mimoplastics and Tableau of the Underworld: The Visual Aesthetics of Goethe’s 1815
Proserpina Production
J. W. Goethe and C. G. Carus: On the Representation of Nature in Science and Art
Brentano’s Remains: Visual and Verbal Bricolage in
Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia (1838)
A Book of Living Paintings: Tableaux Vivants in Goethe’s
Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809)
Book Reviews
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ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
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