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- Editors' Preface
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Abstract: For this editorial team, volume 30 represents our valedictory effort. Over the past year, some of us were able to transition from the Zoom squares to in-person conferences; we tentatively removed our masks, applauded with real hands, and continued debates in the corridors outside conference rooms. Nevertheless, we have come to value even more the continued opportunity to share work in this venue, and we as editors have particularly enjoyed bringing current debates, controversies, and new directions of ongoing, exciting research to these pages.Hans Hahn's "Wielands Singspiel Alceste, ein Stein des Anstoßes für Goethe'" opens this issue with an exploration of the role Wieland's libretto, in particular, played in a ... Read More
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- Wielands Singspiel Alceste, ein Stein des Anstoßes für
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Abstract: Wielands "Singspiel" Alceste war im ersten Jahrzehnt seiner Veröffentlichung ungeheuer populär, sowohl die Zahl seiner Aufführungen als auch die literarische Rezeption beweisen dies.1 Man kann Alceste als Wielands bedeutendsten Beitrag zur Literatur der Empfindsamkeit betrachten und als ein Werk, das die Tradition des von Norddeutschland ausgehenden Singspiels in Richtung auf eine deutsche Oper weiterentwickelte. Seine Popularität aber erlosch mit Beginn der Weimarer Klassik und wurde allenfalls noch in der Entwicklungsgeschichte der deutschen Oper erwähnt,2 in der Germanistik aber blieb es ein Stiefkind.Diese Arbeit möchte Wielands "Singspiel," insbesondere das Libretto, als ein für die Zeit der Empfindsamkeit ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Lotte's Bird, Female Desire, and the Language of "Sexuality" in Die Leiden
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Abstract: Many of the ideas Western culture associates with "sexuality" are in fact cultural inventions and therefore bound to time and place, even if this feels counterintuitive. These include the notions that everyone has a sexual identity, that sexuality is an integral part of a person's history and present, and that sexuality is closely tied to one's sense of self and individuality and therefore important for others' perceptions. But the introduction of the term "sexuality" is the logical end point and culmination of a much longer development. Any attempt to discuss sexuality in Goethe's work needs to reflect on the fact that the concept of "sexuality," including its derivatives, was not yet commonly used during Goethe's ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- La Roche and Goethe: Gender, Genre, and Influence
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Abstract: Sophie von La Roche's epistolary novel Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim, 1771) has yet to be fully recognized for its significant contribution to the development of the epistolary novel in Germany. By reading La Roche's Sternheim alongside Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's breakthrough novel, Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774), her role in shaping the novel genre becomes evident.1 In this comparative study, I build on previous scholarly work that recognizes the direct influence of La Roche's text on the development of the modern novel generally and the genesis of Werther specifically.2 I center La Roche as the crucial authorial link that brings ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- The Persistence of Bias in German Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Abstract: In my recent book on German women novelists around 1800, I argue that a canon of German literature around 1800 exists, whether scholars desire it or not. Optimists might counterargue that there are multiple canons, multiple methods by which titles are selected. A more pessimistic view would look at the field of German studies and see the persistence of a gendered, not to say sexist lens, despite at least three waves of change brought on by feminist literary critics and theorists. Opinion is certainly divided. In this think piece, I take the pessimistic view that yes, we have a canon and despite inroads and new research, it unfortunately skews persistently toward male bias. I put forth this viewpoint in hopes of ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Things of Art and Amor: Mediation in Goethe's Römische Elegien
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Abstract: To this day, Goethe's Römische Elegien (Roman Elegies) seems to provoke a number of clichés: The elegies are interpreted as a testimony of Goethe's love for Christiane Vulpius. The text also has the reputation of being too heterogeneous and too frivolous for publication in Schiller's literary journal Die Horen (The Horae). Not least, the text is seen as documenting a biographic midlife crisis that Goethe manages through erotic involvements—made possible only by turning away from provincial Weimar toward the Weltstadt (metropolis) Rome (Roma), which is famously recognized as a palindrome for Amor.1 Moreover, Römische Elegien provokes a scholarly controversy between holistic interpretations, on the one hand, which ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Reading Texts Performatively: Disruptive Gestures in Heinrich von Kleist
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Abstract: Heinrich von Kleist's gestures disrupt a fictional world, transforming the text into a performance rather than a revelation of truth. Instead of providing insight into the psychology of the characters and the reality of the narrative cosmos, the movements of Kleist's bodies hold together a multiplicity of disparate possibilities in a single instant, exploding the logic that governs the text. Without the decisive cut that distinguishes the limits of textual meaning, the text overflows with energetic possibilities. Hans-Thies Lehmann terms this Kleistian trope, in which a moment is both charged with potential and on the verge of catastrophe, "Theater im Exzeß" (theater in excess).1 Orienting Kleist's novellas and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Re-Examining (White) Enlightenment Legacies through a German Lens: An
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Abstract: This section has four parts that collectively try to pinpoint the emergence of a complex notion of racial thinking and of marking a concept hitherto largely unmarked, namely whiteness; in the process, it delineates a focus area in eighteenth-century German studies but seeks to project an open discussion, one we'd love to see continued for years to come. It is a discussion that anticipates not as much revision, as it foretells a dynamic exchange and new impulses for a field that has been forced, on more than one occasion, to defend its relevancy. Calls for reexamining names of organizations and the perceived narrow focus of the field, which on the surface Goethe Society and Goethe Yearbook might imply, and which one ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Fractured Visions, New Horizons: Debates in Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Abstract: The past two years have brought many changes to academic life, one of which promises to be an organizational revamp and opening-up of US-based eighteenth-century studies, at least in their representation through ASECS. Two panels at this year's conference (Baltimore, 2022) are a case in point: the "Presidential Session Roundtable: New Horizons in Enlightenment Studies," and "Visions of Empire."1 While the panelists on the former individually and collectively wrestled with domineering whiteness as a paradigm defining the hitherto accepted scope of Enlightenment reach, the latter offered new impulses for interdisciplinary turns to the global: Historian Junko Takeda offered considerations on cultural erasure of ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Black Actors: Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Decolonial Fantasies
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Abstract: Beyond the scholarly sources found in specialized archives, libraries, and bookshelves (or digitized downloads), streaming services and popular series have piqued widespread interest in a Black presence in eighteenth-century European cultures. A number of binge-worthy shows—among them Shonda Rhimes Bridgerton (2021–22), Tony McNamara's The Great: An Occasionally True Story (season 1) and The Great: An Almost Entirely Untrue Story (season 2), and La cocinera de Castamar—adapted from a novel by Fernando J. Múñez by the same name, feature Black characters whose identities are comprised in unequal parts of historical fact, decolonial fantasies, and professionally progressive color-blind casting practices. Bridgerton ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Interior Whiteness: Race and the "Rise of the Novel"
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Abstract: Critical whiteness studies in the German context has thus far not examined the literature of the Goethezeit with the same detail as the philosophy of the period or literature and culture of later eras. This discipline also frequently draws on foundational work from the Anglo-American context; Julia Roth remarks that "most German texts on Critical Whiteness relate themselves (at least on the margins) to Toni Morrison's publications."1 Indeed, although Toni Morrison's 1992 Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is concerned specifically with how an "Africanist presence" emerges in and defines literature by white American authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, she poses a series of ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Racial Classification, Slavery, and Human Rights: The Impacts of the
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Abstract: The panel of the DGEJ (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts) at the 2022 ASECS convention in Baltimore was organized by Sigrid G. Köhler and Claudia Nitschke. Based on recent historical studies that have demonstrated how the Germans participated in the transatlantic slave trade (whether directly or indirectly) and the slave plantation system, the aim of the panel was to examine more closely the extent to which German-speaking authors knew of these connections, how this knowledge came to bear on their writing as well as political and theoretical thinking, and, finally, how impactful these considerations ultimately were. The panel not only placed an emphasis on the normative frameworks of ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Unexpected Bodies in Eighteenth-Century German Culture
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Abstract: Since the 1990s, interdisciplinary scholarship has been reframing a discourse about "extraordinary" bodies (Rosemarie Garland-Thomson) and the cultural construction of these as "unexpected" from a range of perspectives, including queer studies, intersectional feminism, posthumanism, disability studies, ecocriticism, and critical race theory. Garland-Thomson's path-breaking work decisively shifted a medicalized discourse to another register. Her intervention has reverberated across academic disciplines and activist platforms alike. The body—erroneously presumed to be human—continues to organize inquiry into the limits of the human. Although scholarship about the body frequently reflects presentist perspectives ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Mind over Body' Stigma, Staring, and the Self
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Abstract: Novelty is fragile and staring volatile because the longer we look, the more accustomed a once surprising sight becomes … Seeing disability reminds us of what Bryan S. Turner (2006) calls "ontological contingency," the truth of our body's vulnerability to the randomness of fate. Each one of us ineluctably acquires one or more disabilities—naming them variably as illness, disease, injury, old age, failure, dysfunction, or dependence.1The eighteenth-century German literary canon does not, as a rule, focus specifically on unexpected bodies in central characters, with some notable exceptions such as those discussed by my esteemed colleagues in this forum. This being said, there is an emphasis on stigma across literary ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Unexpected Bodies of Water: On the "Blue" Goethezeit
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Abstract: "Hat man sich nicht ringsum vom Meere umgeben gesehen," Goethe reflects after sailing from the Italian mainland to Sicily in 1787, "so hat man keinen Begriff von Welt und von seinem Verhältnis zur Welt" (WA I/31:90; Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea have no conception of the world or their relation to it).1 Today, some two and a half centuries later, Goethe's words ring true in an unexpected way. Rising sea levels, ocean acidification, offshore oil spills, plastic pollution, and overfishing—to name just a few of the Anthropocene's catastrophic effects on the blue planet—assert ever more urgently water's intimate embrace of past, present, and future life on earth. In our time ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Queering Material Nature: Bewitched Bodies and the Limits of the
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Abstract: "The notions of less abstract natures, as man, dog, dove, … do not deceive us materially, yet even these are sometimes confused by the mutability of matter and the intermixture of things."1"The old woman would at one moment be stroking the little dog, at the next talking to the bird … As I regarded her, I began to shudder, for her face twitched the whole time and she kept shaking, … so that I could not tell what she really looked like."2From Goethe's grimoires to Lessing's lessons, the literatures and philosophies of the eighteenth century mark many turning points in the discursive and material relationships between humankind and nonhuman nature. A renegotiation of the boundaries between observation and intuition ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Unexpected Plant Bodies
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Abstract: Exploring portrayals of plant bodies in the Age of Goethe is not for the delicate; plants have long functioned as seemingly empty vessels for wild and often absurd assumptions about gender, race, colonialism, slavery and plantations, the materiality or spirituality of human bodies, potential profit, and power. Although plants are the basis of virtually all life on Earth, views of their relevance range from being a meaningless and either aesthetic or nearly invisible vegetal backdrop for our animal activities to being our exuberant and enabling older cousins, as per many ancient and nonindustrial cultures. Debates flourished in the nineteenth century and persist even today across the sciences and humanities about ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Euphorion as an Aesthetic Body
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Abstract: At the end of the third act of Faust II, Euphorion attempts to fly only to fall to the ground and die. Fleetingly, the lifeless son of Faust and Helena, resembles an unnamed, familiar figure, as the stage directions describe, "man glaubt in dem Toten eine bekannte Gestalt zu erblicken" (one seems to recognize in the body a familiar face).1 His body vanishes, leaving behind the articles of a poet, clothing, and a lyre. The unnamed figure is, as Goethe made known, the deceased English poet, Lord Byron. In the elegy sung by the chorus that follows, Byron's life is prominently featured while Euphorion's fades to the background. The final stanza, however, ends with a cryptic message, followed by a more hopeful ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Jeremy Adler (review)
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Abstract: This presentation of Goethe's life and work in the Critical Lives series is just the book every scholar of Goethe has been looking for, and this not merely because it is deeply informed, original in its judgments, and keenly insightful, but also because it is the book to recommend to students and nonspecialists who, after having read, say, Werther or Faust, seek a picture of the overall achievement. The book's virtues are legion. Perhaps foremost among them is that it calls attention to Goethe's contemporary significance while firmly situating his work within the context of European literary and cultural history. Goethe's work comes into view here as both remarkably relevant to the concerns of our moment and as a ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Zeit/Schrift 1813–1815 oder: Chronopoetik des "Unregelmäßigen." by
David Brehm et al. (review)-
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Abstract: In the last several decades, Anglophone scholars of print periodicals have often cited Benedict Anderson's assertion that the temporality of the nineteenth-century newspaper is characterized by "the steady onward clocking of homogeneous, empty time." The volume under review here, the latest product of a multiyear research group on "Journal Literature" sponsored by the federally funded German Research Foundation (DFG), challenges each and every one of Anderson's descriptors. The gauntlet is cast in the work's subtitle, which invokes a "chronopoetics of the irregular." While the time signature or characteristic temporality of print serials has traditionally been understood with reference to their periodicity, that ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Wilhelm Meisters Erbe. Deutsche Bildungsidee und globale Digitalisierung
by Heiko Christians (review)-
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Abstract: In seinem Buch Wilhelm Meisters Erbe. Deutsche Bildungsidee und globale Digitalisierung fragt Heiko Christians, was die "einst buchgestützte" historisch-ästhetische, literarische Bildungsidee unter digitalen Bedingungen bedeutet. Denn mit dem Medienwandel stehe "eine identitätsbildende Tradition auf dem Spiel." Den Umgang mit Büchern rechnete man der Sphäre des Geistes zu, nicht der Technik. Heute hat aber eine völlig neue Umgebung technischer Netzwerke die Formate der alten Bildungsidee marginalisiert. Es handelt sich um maximale Schnelligkeit, grenzenlose Verfügbarkeit und optimale Zugangsbedingungen für möglichst viele. Letztendlich sollen digitale Infrastrukturen soziale, ökonomische und politische Ungleichheit ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century
Germany by Adrian Daub (review)-
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Abstract: Adrian Daub's comprehensive reimagining of German literary and cultural history is a worthy follow-up to his 2012 Uncivil Unions, as if the off-kilter marriages and other unions had gone on to spawn equally out-of-sync offspring. Like the earlier book, The Dynastic Imagination revises a mostly canonical literary history by focusing on a master figure, this time the idea of ancestry, descent, inheritance, and lineage, in order to produce a new story. This story is told in terms of the uncanny recurrence of dynastic figures of kinship in spite of the revolutionary and Romantic critique of dynasty and its putative replacement in the nineteenth century by the bourgeois nuclear family. In this context, dynasty becomes a ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Der Streit um Klassizität: Polemische Konstellationen vom 18. zum 21.
Jahrundert ed. by Daniel Ehrmann and Norbert Christian Wolf (review)-
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Abstract: Harmony and order are keywords repeatedly used to describe the nature of both the classical and classicism. Klassizität refers to transhistorical qualities that warrant continuity and stability, constants in the flux of time. Johann Joachim Winckelmann's notion of the "stille Größe und edle Einfalt" of the Greeks has been regurgitated for the last two and a half centuries, but it draws on a much longer tradition, stretching back to the Renaissance and even to the classical age itself. Leon Battista Alberti's demand for pictorial dignity and grace and Polykleitos's canonical theory of symmetry and proportion point to an almost unalterable, comfortable, and sometimes oppressive ideal.Against this backdrop of age-old ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Philosophy ed. by Sarah Vandegrift
Eldridge and C. Allen Speight (review)-
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Abstract: This collection edited by Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge and C. Allen Speight contains ten essays by leading scholars in the fields of Philosophy and German studies on the importance of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship for the history of ideas generally and to current philosophical debates. Reading this book brought to my mind both the works of Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum on the relationship between literature and philosophy. Cavell's suggestion in The Claim of Reason that philosophy can be regarded as a set of texts demanding interpretation, and Nussbaum's remark in Love's Knowledge that the style of a text is itself a statement about the kind of knowledge it deals with, show how we can study Goethe as a ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Kristallisationen von Liebe. Zur Poetik des Gefühlswissens zwischen
Romantik und Realismus by Patrick Fortmann (review)-
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Abstract: Patrick Fortmann's Kristallisationen von Liebe contributes to the study of love as a discourse or code (Foucault, Barthes, and Luhmann) and to literature's privileged place in such studies with an intricate argument identifying German literature around 1830 as a site to observe transformations in the understanding of love in a multiplicity of fields. If, as Fortmann writes in the book's introduction, the Western European understanding of love was shaped by philosophy, theology, rhetoric, medicine, and literature until 1860, after which it has been predominately influenced by experimental psychology and neuroscience, then Heinrich Heine's poetry, Young Germany's prose, and Georg Büchner's dramas, with their ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and
Modernism by Samuel Frederick (review)-
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Abstract: Dust. Junk. Debris. Sludge. Scraps. Waste. These are not materials that we particularly wish to see accumulate around the house or that we ourselves seek to accumulate, let alone preserve and present. Yet such objects are collected, arranged, and showcased in Samuel Frederick's The Redemption of Things. This quietly engaging and eloquent book challenges dominant conceptions about collectability by analyzing the collecting of material things whose immateriality, ephemerality, and presumable undesirability would seem to deter if not defy the very act of collecting. In our efforts to hold on to that which will only slip through our fingers, we ultimately come to terms with the contingency of objects and our own ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Optische Autritte. Marktszenen in der medialen Konkurrenz von Journal-,
Almanachs- und Bücherliteratur by Stephanie Gleißner et al. (review)-
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Abstract: The second, collaboratively authored volume of, at last count, six impressive books to have emerged from the DFG research group on German Journalliteratur based in Bochum, Optische Auftritte brings to vivid life the market competition among books, Unterhaltungsblätter, almanacs, and gift books from the first boom of serial literary publications around 1800 to the ebbing appeal of such works by midcentury. By that late phase, August Wilhelm Schlegel's comments on the Taschenbuch in his Flaxman essay of 1799 appeared to have come home to roost: Schlegel had disparaged its small format, "unpoetic" genre illustrations, and a seeming disconnection between text and image in its pages. (Of course, at this time engravings ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Die Aufklärung der Aufklärung: Lessing und die Herausforderung des
Christentums by Hannes Kerber (review)-
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Abstract: Hannes Kerber's monograph exploits close readings of largely neglected participants in the so-called fragments controversy to deliver a genuinely original reading of Lessing's authorial strategy during the early years of the controversy. On the strictly philological plane, this study merits attention among Lessing scholars for uncovering a host of sources within the Christian theological tradition that influenced Lessing's late religious thought. Kerber carefully documents Lessing's underappreciated sensitivity not only to the doctrinal debates that animated the formative (pre-Nicene) centuries of Christianity but also to the core theological innovations of the early Reformation. Kerber's book is no mere ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play
around 1800 by Edgar Landgraf and Elliott Schreiber (review)-
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Abstract: Given the overwhelming presence of play in today's analog and digital entertainment market, this book is timely. It follows on a number of key studies on play such The Handbook of the Study of Play (2015) and It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan (2017), not to mention several new scholarly journals. For a collection of contributions by a range of well-known scholars, Play in the Age of Goethe is exceptional in its focus on the period from 1770 to 1830, its philosophical, literary, and pedagogical approaches to play, and their interconnections, or should I say, interplay. The subtitle aptly reflects the four parts of the volume: theories, narratives, children's play in ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco
Polo to Goethe by Daniel Leonhard Purdy (review)-
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Abstract: Most in-depth engagements with Goethe's world literature paradigm acknowledge his comments on Chinese poetic works in his conversations with Johann Peter Eckermann and tend to approve of his mention of the ancient roots of Chinese civilization and their well-developed culture at a time when, in Goethe's telling, Europe was populated largely by primitive hordes. Goethe is praised for this nod toward Chinese aesthetic refinement at a time (the first half of the nineteenth century) of increasing racism and incipient imperialism, leading to conflicts such as the Opium Wars that still have negative reverberations today. Daniel Purdy's Chinese Sympathies takes a much deeper dive into the European/Chinese interactions ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Morgenländischer Glanz. Eine deutsche jüdische Literaturgeschichte
(1750–1850) by Kathrin Wittler (review)-
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Abstract: This ambitious, innovative, and highly readable book of 620 pages—one does not want to miss a single page—is a "German Jewish literary history" based on Kathrin Wittler's 2016 dissertation deciphering the trope of Orientalism among Jewish writers—male and female, well-known and less known today—between 1750 and 1850 in the context of their own literary productions. In doing so, this study goes beyond existing works by Hans Otto Horch, Sander Gilman, Jack Zipes, and Andreas Kilcher. As has been well researched, within this time frame, a modern Jewish identity responding to the challenges of the era of emancipation (see, e.g., Michael A. Meyer's 1996 Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte in der Neuzeit) and a distinct modern ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Novalis. Die Poesie des Unendlichen: Dichtungen und Texte des
Universalgeistes der Frühromantik ed. by Gabriele Rommel, and: Atlantis:
Ein Märchen von Novalis ed. by Gabriele Rommel and Nicholas Saul (review)
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Abstract: Gabriele Rommel, the former director of the Research Center for Early Romanticism / Novalis-Museum at the birthplace of Friedrich von Hardenberg in Schloss Oberwiederstedt, has edited the first volume listed above within a series that hitherto has dealt largely with the writings of twentieth-century authors such as Hans Fallada, Christian Morgenstern, and Stefan Zweig. Near the beginning of her well-organized introduction, Rommel provides a lengthy quote from Hermann Hesse's enthusiastic reaction to Ernst Heilborn's Novalis edition of 1901 for the hundredth anniversary of the poet's death, which rescued Novalis from decades of neglect. Clearly, Rommel hopes to make similar use of the 250th anniversary of the birth ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
- Mountains and the German Mind: Translations from Gessner to Messner,
1541–2009 ed. by Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann (review)-
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Abstract: A. C. Spectorsky prefaced his classic anthology, The Book of the Mountains (1955), by interrogating the figure of alpine "conquest":Currently, there has been an effusion of writing about the conquest of heretofore impregnable peaks. Conquest is an odd word used thus: Months and years of planning weeks and months of desperate and perilous toil are invested in a brief moment when perhaps two men, swaddled, numb, gasping like stranded fish, triumphantly stand with their heads some six feet higher than the hoary peak of a mountain which has—massive and impersonal—forced upon them adaptations almost beyond the limits of human flexibility and endurance.Not surprisingly, Spectorsky's curiosity about what it might mean ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-23T00:00:00-05:00
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