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Ludwig Tieck’s Kaiser Octavianus as the Capstone of Early Romanticism Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Flavio Auer
When Ludwig Tieck started to publish his Schriften in 1828, he opened the edition with Kaiser Octavianus (1804), thereby setting the drama as the capstone to Early Romanticism. In this essay, I int...
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Lotte in Weimar: ‘Aber aus Küssen werden keine Kinder.’ Thomas Mann’s Reflections on the Artist: The Dilemma between the Artist and ‘Menschlichkeit’ Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Hans-Joachim Hahn
In exploring the relationship between the artist and ethics this extended paper compares the role of the two protagonists, Lotte and Goethe, in Mann’s novel, with particular reference to the concep...
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Chronicle Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Astrid Köhler, Charlotte Lee, Charlie Louth
Published in Publications of the English Goethe Society (Vol. 92, No. 3, 2023)
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Reclaiming the Female Storyteller in the Nineteenth Century: Strategies of Adaptation and Resistance in the Works of Laura Gonzenbach and Carmen Sylva Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Anja Rekeszus
This article explores how women writers and collectors of fairy tales in the nineteenth century situated themselves within different contemporary tropes of the tale-telling woman in order to follow...
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‘Wir hätten keine Zukunft mehr?’ Hedwig Dohm’s Future-Orientated Ideas of Aging in Feminist Writings from the 1900s and her Short Story Werde, die du bist Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Charlotte Woodford
Around 1900, the feminist Hedwig Dohm (1831–1919) drew attention to acts of silencing with respect to women in later years. Her essays, such as ‘Die alte Frau’ (1903) and ‘Mutter und Großmutter’ (1...
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Iphigenie auf Tauris, Torquato Tasso, and the Imagery of Character Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Michael White
ABSTRACT Whether it is in the notion of ‘Bildung’ or the daemonic, the reflective engagement with the self lies at the heart of what makes Goethe compelling for modern readers. This article traces the language and imagery of one notion of self-realization, moral character, in Iphigenie auf Tauris and Torquato Tasso. It identifies recurrent metaphors associated with character in eighteenth and nineteenth
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The Anti-Jacobin Reaction against German Drama and Philosophy in Britain, 1798–1804 Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Catherine Angerson
ABSTRACT George Canning and John Hookham Frere’s satire on German plays and their radical English readers, The Rovers; or, The Double Arrangement (1798), marked the beginning of a short period of intense engagement with German drama and philosophy in the conservative periodical press in Britain. The Rovers appeared in the Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly Examiner, a magazine written largely by Foreign Office
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Reines Licht: Blindness, Religion, and Morality in Selected Early Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Cameron M. Cross
ABSTRACT This paper undertakes a disability studies reading of blindness in selected early Grimms Kinder- und Hausmärchen (KHM). I argue for the use of the religious model of disability as a methodology for this reading and develop a new model known as the moral model: as I demonstrate, the religious model locates disability in the individual. In contrast, the moral model — which is often conflated
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(De)constructing Nationalism: Understanding Irony in Thomas Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig (1912), Unordnung und frühes Leid (1925), and Mario und der Zauberer (1929) Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Helena de Guise
ABSTRACT In the background of the European era of nationalism, Thomas Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig (1912), Unordnung und frühes Leid (1925), and Mario und der Zauberer (1929) reveal the authority of narrative in the discursive construction of identity. By analysing the interrelation of Mann’s characteristic irony and productions of discourses of racialization, this essay draws attention to the constructed
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Himmelstraum, Alptraum, und ‘träumerische Verwechslung des geistigen und leiblichen Genusses’: Schattierungen und strukturelle Funktionen des Traummotivs in E. T. A. Hoffmanns Kater Murr Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Ricarda Schmidt
ABSTRACT In Hoffmanns Kater Murr wird viel geträumt: Menschen und Tiere haben sowohl Nacht- als auch Tagträume, die vom Komischen bis zum Angsterregenden reichen. Der Aufsatz untersucht, wie Tagträume kontrastiv als Mittel psychologischer Charakterisierung fungieren. Am Beispiel der nächtlichen Träume wird die Verflechtung des Romans in die theoretischen und intertextuellen Traumdiskurse seiner Zeit
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Fanny Mendelssohn’s Divan Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Anhad Arora
ABSTRACT This article considers Fanny Mendelssohn’s 1825 settings of poems from Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan in their manuscript context. I argue that Mendelssohn draws out narratives from Goethe’s ‘Buch Suleika’. She composes a cycle of six songs with two revolutions, each charting the path of love from separation through union to separation again. Investigation of Mendelssohn’s cycle brings her
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‘Erkundung des Dunkels’: Thomas Mann liest Freud Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Friedhelm Kröll
ABSTRACT Dieser Vortrag beleuchtet die geistige Verwandtschaft von Thomas Mann und Sigmund Freud: er befasst sich mit Momenten der direkten Auseinandersetzung — wie den Schriften Manns über Freud — und mit jenen Gemeinsamkeiten beider Denker, die über bloße Einflussnahme hinausgehen. Der psychologische und analytische Scharfsinn von Manns Werk ging seiner Freud-Lektüre zeitlich voraus, aber er zeigte
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The Influence of Goethe on Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (1945) Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Mark Austin
ABSTRACT While Germany was ravaged by war in winter 1944, Richard Strauss read the complete works of Goethe. During this period, he composed Metamorphosen, usually considered an elegy for Germanic culture with its quotation from Beethoven’s Eroica inscribed ‘In Memoriam’. Goethe’s influence on the work is far greater than hitherto realized. I argue that Strauss’s late choice of title invites a search
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‘Incredible, that’s Literature!’ Attempts at Remoralizing Academic Disciplines, Politics, and the Professions with the Help of ‘Belles-Lettres’ Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Wolf Lepenies
ABSTRACT The Wilkinson-Willoughby-Lecture of the English Goethe Society for 2022 was given by Wolf Lepenies. The text of his talk is given below.
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Konsumrevolution und Verzeitlichung um 1800: Ein kommodes Feuerwerk bei Claudius und der neue Luxus der Flüchtigkeit in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Christine Weder
ABSTRACT This essay examines firework scenes in Matthias Claudius and Goethe, reading them in the context of a historical shift in the function of popular spectacles: from the representative role of fireworks in the ancien régime, to their broad availability as commodities in modernity. Claudius portrays that cultural change vividly and as the miniaturization of luxury. In Die Wahlverwandtschaften
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Hölderlin’s ‘Hälfte des Lebens’ and the Fate of Reflection Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Ian Cooper
ABSTRACT The article examines Hölderlin’s poem as a tragic response to Romantic reflection as formulated by Fichte, and in this context shows that the poem’s interest in Klopstock, recognized by recent scholarship, is a critical one. Hölderlin, like Hegel, discerns a continuity between Klopstock’s emphasis on feeling and the problems of Fichtean reflection. The article concludes by looking at the poem’s
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Butler’s Winckelmann Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Lasse Hodne
ABSTRACT The book The Tyranny of Greece over Germany (1935) by Eliza Marian Butler is about the development of German intellectual life in the period from Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) onwards. Winckelmann is often seen as the man who gave the impetus to a wave of philhellenism in Germany. According to Butler, German intellectuals’ nostalgic longing for Greece and lack of interest in real
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Heinrich Laube’s European Moment Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Andrew Cusack
ABSTRACT Despite his apparent prominence as one of the five ‘Young German’ writers whose work was banned by the Bundestagsbeschluß of December 1835, Heinrich Laube is an author whose Vormärz publications are underresearched and inadequately contextualized. This essay seeks to reconstruct a European moment in the work of Laube, beginning with his 1832 book on the Polish November Uprising, and ending
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Chronicle Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Kevin Hilliard, Astrid Köhler, Charlotte Lee, Charlie Louth
Published in Publications of the English Goethe Society (Vol. 91, No. 3, 2022)
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Teaching the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Kevin Hilliard, Astrid Köhler, Charlotte Lee
Published in Publications of the English Goethe Society (Vol. 91, No. 2, 2022)
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Kanonische Dramen der Aufklärung und ihre Aktualität als didaktische Herausforderung Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Thomas Martinec
ABSTRACT The canonical status and topicality of literary texts of the German Enlightenment are often cited as good reasons to teach these texts. In practice, however, the canonical status favours an uncritical approach to literature and leads to the omission of numerous sources that could serve to gain significant insights into the literary life of the time; and the postulate of topicality invites
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Green Glasses in the Classroom: Teaching Heinrich von Kleist Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Margit Dirscherl
ABSTRACT Michael Kohlhaas is one of Heinrich von Kleist’s most studied texts. While students may find the dense and complex narrative challenging to understand and interpret, the tale lends itself well to train critical thinking, a key skill in the study of Modern Languages. In a close reading, I argue that engaging with literature from the more distant past, including Kleist’s tale, not only builds
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Teaching Eighteenth-Century German Literature in the Era of #MeToo: Gender and the Enlightenment Canon Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Ellen Pilsworth
ABSTRACT This article presents the course ‘Seduction and Destruction: 1772–1808’, which I taught at Bristol in 2017, at the time of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and ensuing #MeToo debate. I argue for the examination of gender ideologies as a way into more traditionally studied eighteenth-century concepts and movements such as Aufklärung, Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. I offer an overview of the
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Race and Colonialism around 1800: Herder, Fischer, Kleist Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Joanna Raisbeck
ABSTRACT Herder’s ‘Neger-Idyllen’, Kleist’s Die Verlobung in St. Domingo, and Caroline Auguste Fischer’s William der Neger offer an exploration of the intersection between race and colonialism in the Atlantic World and in Europe around 1800. Teaching students to read depictions of race, violence, and struggles for emancipation does not only engage with the fraught legacies of the Enlightenment, but
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Civilized Competition: The Beginnings of the English Goethe Society and its Early Relations with the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Fabienne Schopf, Angus Nicholls, translated by Sharon Howe
ABSTRACT The English Goethe Society (EGS) is the third oldest Goethe society in the world. Although it was founded solely as a literary society ‘to promote and extend Goethe’s work and thought’, the appointment of Friedrich Max Müller as the society’s first president suggested that the early founders of the EGS also saw it as playing an important diplomatic role in Anglo-German relations. This article
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A Whiteheadian Take on Subjectivity and Philosophical Conceptualization in Goethe’s ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Ganymed’ Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Clark S. Muenzer
ABSTRACT Guided by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and the transcendental materialism of Gilles Deleuze, this reading of Goethe’s ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Ganymed’ constructs the hymns’ defining polarity with reference to the ‘subjective aims’ of their ‘conceptual personae’. While each mythological figure is driven by a primordial ‘feeling’ along its separate path of ‘satisfaction’, the sum
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Goethe’s Faust II: The Redemption of an Enlightened Despot Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Ritchie Robertson
ABSTRACT Faust, a cosmic drama with epic qualities, is the great epic of the Enlightenment. It turns on the problem of theodicy or vindicating divine goodness. Does Faust, in view of his crimes, deserve to be saved? In particular, the deaths of Philemon and Baucis, victims of the engineering works carried out in Faust II, Act v, have been condemned by critics, as has Faust’s project of founding a free
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Goethe and the Aesthetics of Equestrian Art Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Stefanie Stockhorst
ABSTRACT Goethe had lifelong unhappy memories of his early riding lessons at the Frankfurt Marstall. Yet not only did he become a passionate rider later, but he also held riding in unusually high esteem as a veritable form of ‘art’. In his literary works, riding serves as a complex symbol of, among other things, a prudent, measured style of government, an analogy that was also drawn in early modern
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Naivety and Irony: Goethe’s Musical Needs Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Alfred Brendel
ABSTRACT The inaugural Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture of the English Goethe Society was given in January 2021 by the distinguished pianist Alfred Brendel. The text of his talk is given below.
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Willoughby, Blunck, and their Jewish Critics: The English Goethe Society and Anglo-German Relations in the Nazi Period Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-12-19 W. Daniel Wilson
ABSTRACT H. G. Fiedler and L. A. Willoughby, the most important officers of the English Goethe Society during the years 1933 to 1945, pursued the goal of peace through stronger Anglo-German ties, which led Willoughby to gestures of support for the Nazi regime. His Jewish colleague William Rose criticized him for inviting poet and Nazi literary official Hans Friedrich Blunck to an EGS reading. Willoughby
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Choreographies of (Dis)order: Dance and Same-Sex Desire in Thomas Mann’s Unordnung und frühes Leid (1925) and Klaus Mann’s Der fromme Tanz (1926) Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Francesco Albé
ABSTRACT The year 1925 marks both the publication of Thomas Mann’s novella Unordnung und frühes Leid and the debut of his son Klaus as a novelist with the writing of Der fromme Tanz (published in 1926), two texts deeply concerned with the disruption of normative orders. Drawing on contemporary Weimar debates around new choreographic practices and (homo)sexuality, this article develops a comparative
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The Erotic Gaze of the Italienreise: Wilhelm von Gloeden and Der Tod in Venedig Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Marie-Louise James
ABSTRACT From Winckelmann and Platen to Goethe and Mann, the cultural narrative of the German ‘Italian journey’ spins a highly intertextual web — one often embedded within a subtext of homoerotic interests. This article expands on the homoerotic iconography of Thomas Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig (1912) by comparing the novella’s visual language to the fin-de-siècle Sicilian photographs of Wilhelm von
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Chronicle Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-12-19
(2021). Chronicle. Publications of the English Goethe Society: Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 253-253.
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The Authorship of the First English Translation of Goethe Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Tom Baynes
ABSTRACT The anonymous translation of Werther that was published by James Dodsley (1724-1797) in 1779 has been attributed to both Daniel Malthus (1730-1800) and Richard Graves (1715-1804). The case for the latter can be appreciably strengthened if the Dodsley Werther is re-examined in the context of Graves’s life and work. The death of his wife in 1777 precipitated an emotional crisis, which could
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Neology vs. Radical Enlightenment: Gotthilf Samuel Steinbart, Jakob Mauvillon, and Frederick the Great’s Essai sur l’Amour-propre envisagé comme Principe de Morale (1770) Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Kevin Hilliard
ABSTRACT This article discusses a pirated translation and edition of a work by the German theologian Gotthilf Samuel Steinbart (1738–1809) and shows that it can be attributed to Jakob Mauvillon (1743–1794), an important figure of the late Radical Enlightenment in Germany. In this Examen des motifs à la vertu (1774) Mauvillon submerges the primary text in a flood of commentary, with the aim of discrediting
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Goethe and Klopstock: A Last Word Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Roger Paulin
ABSTRACT This article examines the influence of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock on the poetry of the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe, tracing Goethe’s brief but intense relationship with the older poet by looking at well-known examples such as ‘Auf dem See’ and noting correspondences and above all differences. A further example of Klopstock’s influence is the early dramatic fragment Mahomet. There, the themes
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In memoriam: Hugh Barr Nisbet (24 August 1940 - 6 February 2021) Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-07-05
(2021). In memoriam: Hugh Barr Nisbet (24 August 1940 - 6 February 2021) Publications of the English Goethe Society: Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 163-166.
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Literature in the World: Introduction Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Barry Murnane
ABSTRACT Coined by Christoph Martin Wieland and promoted by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Weltliteratur/‘world literature’ has gained extraordinary traction in comparative literature, post-colonial studies, and Goethe studies. This article provides an overview of the emergence of Weltliteratur in Goethe’s critical activities, offering a comparison to its mutation into the contemporary critical framework
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World on a Shelf: Submissions of Weltliteratur in Goethe’s Private Library — A Quantitative Approach Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Stefan Höppner, Ulrike Trenkmann
ABSTRACT In his writings on world literature, Goethe highlights direct ‘intellectual commerce’ between living authors while also emphasizing indirect exchange through intermediaries such as translators. This paper investigates whether book submissions to Goethe mirror these complementary modes on a material level. In our study, we map submissions in foreign literature and German literature in translation
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The Contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Faust Translations Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Mathelinda Nabugodi
ABSTRACT Percy Bysshe Shelley’s fascination with Goethe’s Faust spanned a large part of his writing career, starting with a line-by-line translation of nearly a thousand lines from the drama’s opening in 1815 and culminating in a poetic rendition of the ‘Prolog im Himmel’ and ‘Walpurgisnacht’ finished shortly before his untimely death in July 1822. This article offers a detailed examination of the
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Material Exchange, Symbolic Recognition: Weltliteratur as Discourse and Practice in Goethe, Carlyle, and Emerson Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Tim Sommer
ABSTRACT Thomas Carlyle’s activity as a translator and promoter of German literature in nineteenth-century Britain was among the chief signs the ageing Goethe read as inaugurating ‘the epoch of world literature’. American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who became Carlyle’s transatlantic friend and ally soon after Goethe’s death, shared the impression that their contemporary moment witnessed global contact
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Ambivalent Readings of World Literature: Goethe in the Writings of German-Jewish Readers in Mandate Palestine/Israel Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Caroline Jessen
ABSTRACT The article explores the ways in which German-Jewish émigré readers in Mandate Palestine/Israel referred to the idea of world literature, and to Goethe as its most prominent proponent, in order to advocate for the continuous significance of ‘German’ literature in spite of the break with tradition that the genocide of European Jewry caused. World literature emerges as a Kassiber, a coded message
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Introduction: The Mixed Reception of Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 W. Daniel Wilson
(2020). Introduction: The Mixed Reception of Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan. Publications of the English Goethe Society: Vol. 89, Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan and its Uses, pp. 111-115.
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Goethes ‘Divan-Jahre’ Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Hendrik Birus
ABSTRACT The years 1814–19 are often known as Goethe’s ‘Divan years’, because the West-östlicher Divan is the main product of these five years. The article follows, step by step, its genesis after a decade that was probably the most difficult of his life. But what an array of diverse projects were completed or continued: the production of a new edition of his Werke (twenty volumes, 1815–19), the first
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Illustrations for the Divan in Editions of Goethe’s Works during his Lifetime Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Waltraud Maierhofer
ABSTRACT Illustrations accompanied the Divan from the first publication of poems in the Taschenbuch für Damen auf das Jahr 1817 and the frontispiece with writing in Arabic, arabesque ornamentation, and framing of the title page in the 1819 complete first edition. My article investigates the reception of Goethe’s Divan by contemporary artists who provided frontispieces, Titelkupfer, or vignettes for
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Heine’s Divan: West-Eastern Voyages after Goethe Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Patrick Fortmann
ABSTRACT Heinrich Heine has long been recognized as an early admirer of Goethe’s Divan. In Die romantische Schule, he issues an enthusiastic endorsement that helped popularize Goethe’s late poetry in the French-speaking world, and in his own poetic production, above all in Buch der Lieder, he repeatedly orients himself eastwards in terms of settings and designs. This article considers the language
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Public and Poetic Wars of Liberation: August von Platen’s Ghazals, Patriotism, and Homoeroticism Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Amir Irani-Tehrani
ABSTRACT August von Platen responded to Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan by composing original German ghazals that allowed him to explore his sexuality and relationship to the Fatherland through the rigorous embrace of a foreign poetic form. This ‘Divanic approach’ was neither exoticizing nor Orientalizing because it focused on the pre-existence of the Other within the Self. Platen’s response helps clarify
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The Intimate Book: World Literature, Poetic Rejuvenation, and the Art of Arrangement in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Divan Essay and Buch der Freunde Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Anna Guillemin
ABSTRACT When Hugo von Hofmannsthal published his aphoristic collection, Buch der Freunde (1922), he borrowed the title from Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan. A mix of original maxims and excerpted quotations, it departs from his famous poems, plays and essays. Reading it alongside Hofmannsthal’s Divan essay, I analyse it as a response to a creative crisis that re-enacts world literature in the spirit
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‘Nun so legt euch liebe Lieder / An den Busen meinem Volke’: (De-)Popularisierungsdynamiken des West-östlichen Divans im neunzehnten und frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Andrea Polaschegg
ABSTRACT This essay sees Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan in the twofold tension between the cryptic and clarity, exclusivity and popularity that has shaped the reception of the cycle for the last two hundred years. It follows the traces of the lied — defined by contemporaries as ‘popular’ — through the Divan poems and their uses in the nineteenth century and finally examines in more detail the de-popularizing
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What Is an Identical Translation? The Legacy of Goethe’s Discussion in the West-östlicher Divan Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Thomas O. Beebee
ABSTRACT Goethe’s brief discussion of translation in the Noten and Abhandlungen to the Divan has been one of the most widely read and interpreted parts of its prose commentary section. Goethe’s three epochs of translation culminate in translations that are ‘identisch’ with the original. This essay explains what identicality can mean in the realm of translation, including how some of Goethe’s major
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The Hafis-Goethe-Denkmal and Cultural Sounds? as Artistic Responses to Goethe’s Divan: Between Close Reading and Cultural Politics Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 James Hodkinson
ABSTRACT This paper examines two works of contemporary art, a sculpture-cum-civic monument and a sound installation, which respond to Goethe’s Divan. The discussion combines a critical review of the political climate within which the works were conceived with original interviews with the artists to offer close analysis of the works. I evaluate the relative impact that the Divan and scholarship on it
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Divan-Variationen für das einundzwanzigste Jahrhundert: Thomas Lehrs September und Michael Kleebergs Der Idiot des 21. Jahrhunderts Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Claudia Nitschke
ABSTRACT Thomas Lehrs September: Fata Morgana (2015) and Michael Kleebergs Der Idiot des 21. Jahrhunderts: Ein Divan (2018) productively engage with Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan. Both novels, which were published eight years apart, respond increasingly indirectly to 9/11, its premises and consequences. This article draws on Goethe’s Divan and his thoughts on world literature in order to analyse how
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Hans Siegbert Reiss (19 August 1922 – 2 April 2020) Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Roger Paulin
(2020). Hans Siegbert Reiss (19 August 1922 – 2 April 2020) Publications of the English Goethe Society: Vol. 89, Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan and its Uses, pp. 276-278.
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Chronicle Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Kevin Hilliard, Astrid Köhler, W. Daniel Wilson
(2020). Chronicle. Publications of the English Goethe Society: Vol. 89, Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan and its Uses, pp. 279-279.
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Some Neo-Classical and Classical Eddies in Mörike’s Idylle vom Bodensee Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Ray Ockenden
ABSTRACT Mörike’s poem has been neglected, for various possible reasons, and often misread. The poem’s three time layers are distinct. It has some echoes of Goethe and Voss, uses some Homeric devices, and claims links to Hebel and to Theocritus. The central character is problematic, recalling Odysseus. Despite its title the poem has an elegiac quality.
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Agonistic Reading: Kleist’s Aesthetics of Temptation Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Gabriel Trop
ABSTRACT The anti-humanism of Kleist’s Über das Marionettentheater — wherein the ideal of grace is supposed to make visible mechanical forces devoid of human self-consciousness — takes the form of a temptation. The text nevertheless has a poetological function inasmuch as temptation lies at the genesis of aesthetic experience for Kleist. The paper examines the potentialities of a form of agonistic
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Rescue Narratives: Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften and Benjamin’s ‘Das Taschentuch’ Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Carolin Duttlinger
ABSTRACT Walter Benjamin’s little-explored 1932 novella ‘Das Taschentuch’ combines theory and narrative practice. Its reflections on storytelling anticipate the argument of the ‘Erzähler’ essay, while its rescue narrative echoes Benjamin’s essay on ‘Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften’. In ‘Das Taschentuch’ Benjamin adapts Goethe’s novella ‘Die wunderlichen Nachbarskinder’ for his own, technological age,
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The Genealogy of ‘Human Dignity’: A New Perspective Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Jeremy Adler
ABSTRACT This article considers the history of the concept of human dignity from its origins in the Bible and in Stoic philosophy down to the twentieth century. The major thinkers who contributed to the development of the idea are examined, including Pico della Mirandola, Pufendorf, Kant, and Broch. Similarly, the views of contemporary philosophers such as Jürgen Habermas and Martha Nussbaum are considered
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‘Richter die ihr richtet im Verborgenen’: Literary Representations of the Vehmic Court in the Age of Goethe Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Daniele Vecchiato
ABSTRACT This article reconstructs and contextualizes the development of the Vehmic Court motif in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature by examining both canonical texts, such as Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen and Kleist’s Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, and works commonly classified as Trivialliteratur. As a popular subset of Ritter- and Geheimbundliteratur, Secret Tribunal
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Wer ist ‘kein Autor’? Anonymität und Authentizität in der Volkslieddichtung um 1800 Publications of the English Goethe Society Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Michael Multhammer
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Der Beitrag fokussiert die Paratexte des Populären. Ausgangspunkt ist die Frage, warum ein solch hoher Begründungsaufwand zu leisten ist, um das vermeintlich ohnehin Evidente — Volksdichtung ist gut, natürlich und damit auch authentisch — erneut zu erweisen. Eine der Strategien, Authentizität herzustellen, ist die zunehmende Anonymisierung von Dichtung, wie an Beispielen von Sammlungen