Goethe Yearbook 21 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Daub, Adrian; Krimmer, Elisabeth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

New essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, including contributions by both eminent scholars and new voices.



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 21 contains eleven articles, including contributions by leading scholars David Wellbery and Katharina Mommsen; innovative work on the reception of Goethe's works around 1900, on women writers, and on Goethe's contemporary Albrecht von Haller; theoretically sophisticated interpretations, including articles on concepts of space in Alexis and Doraand on notions of sacrifice in Faust; and interdisciplinary pieces ranging from a discussion of contemporary psychological and medical theories of ill humor in relation to Goethe's Werther and an economic reading ofGoethe's Faust to an analysis of illustrations of Goethe's works. The review section collects responses by eminent scholars to a wide swath of recent books on Goethe and his age, both in German and English.

Contributors: Liesl Allingham, William H. Carter, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, John B. Lyon, Waltraud Maierhofer, Catherine Minter, Katharina Mommsen, David Pan, Michael Saman, Leif Weatherby, David E. Wellbery.

Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California Davis. Book review editor Birgit Tautz is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782044116
• Artikelnr.: 56144330

Autorenporträt

Adrian Daub, Elisabeth Krimmer

Inhaltsangabe

On the Logic of Change in Goethe's Work Space and Place in Goethe's "Alexis
und Dora" Countermemory in Karoline von Günderrode's "Darthula nach
Ossian": A Female Warrior, Her Unruly Breast, and the Construction of Her
Myth Bad Habits of the Heart: Werther's Critique of Ill Humor in the
Context of Contemporary Psychological Thought Confessions of a Childless
Woman: Fictional Autobiography around 1800 Faust's Begehren: Revisiting the
History of Political Economy in Faust II Sacrifice in Goethe's Faust
Constructions of Goethe versus Constructions of Kant in German Intellectual
Culture, 1900-1925 Das Innere der Natur und ihr Organ: von Albrecht von
Haller zu Goethe Die Titelkupfer von Moritz Retzsch zu Goethes Ausgabe
letzter Hand Zu Goethe und der Islam-Antwort auf die oft aufgeworfene
Frage: War Goethe ein Muslim? Book Reviews