Goethe Yearbook 12

by Richter, Simon J.; Helfer, Martha B.

• ISBN13: 9781571132956
• ISBN10: 1571132953
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Camden House

Summary

The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. The book review section seeks likewise to evaluate a wide selection of recent publications on the period, and is important for all scholars of 18th-century literature. Volume 12 honors founding editor Thomas P. Saine with contributions from prominent scholars such as Ehrhard Bahr, Benjamin Bennett, Dieter Borchmeyer, Jane Brown, Jill Kowalik, Ruth Kluger, Meredith Lee, John McCarthy, Jeff Sammons, Helmut Schneider, Hans Vaget, and more. The volume includes essays on Goethe's novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark, Bach, Ossian, Goethe reception, and Schiller.Simon J. Richter is associate professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is associate professor of German at the University of Utah.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Ossian-Rezeption von Michael Denis bis Goethe: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Primitivismus in Deutschland	1	(16)
Ehrhard Bahr
Werther, the Undead	17	(14)
Hans Vaget
Who Is the Editor in Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers?	31	(10)
Christoph E. Schweitzer
Substitution, Self-blame, and Self-deception in Goethe's Stella: Ein Schauspiel fur Liebende	41	(18)
Ellis Dye
``Myth and Psychology'': The Curing of Orest in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris	59	(22)
Cyrus Hamlin
Poetic Intentions and Musical Production: ``Die erste Walpurgisnacht''	81	(12)
Meredith Lee
Dichter, Herrscher, Natur: Die Entstehung des Ilmparks und das Bild des Parks in Goethes Dichtung	93	(18)
Helmut J. Schneider
Goethe, Rousseau, the Novel, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis	111	(18)
Jane K. Brown
Trauma and Memory in the Wahlverwandschaften	129	(12)
Jill Anne Kowalik
Ein anderes Gretchen-Abenteuer: Das Ende der rhetorischen Poesiekonzeption und das funfte Buch von Goethes Dichtung und Wahrheit	141	(20)
Uwe-K. Ketelsen
Speech, Writing, and Identity in the West-Ostlicher Divan	161	(24)
Benjamin Bennett
Die Pforte entriegeln: Goethes ``Urworte Orphisch''	185	(4)
Ruth Kluger
``Laß mich horen, laß mich fuhlen'': Johann Sebastian Bach im Urteil Goethes	189	(8)
Dieter Borchmeyer
Schiller the Killer: Wilhelm Tell and the Decriminalization of Murder	197	(12)
Gail Hart
Disciplining History: Schiller als Historiograph	209	(18)
John A. Mccarthy
``Heiliger Goethe, bitt' fur mich'': Friedrich Spielhagen and the Anxiety of Influence	227	(14)
Jeffrey L. Sammons
Goethes kleiner Vetter: Erinnerung an den Frankfurter Abenteurer Johann Konrad Friedrich	241	(10)
Hans-Wolf Jager
In Memoriam, Jill Anne Kowalik (1949-2003)	251	(2)
Ursula Mahlendorf
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Book 8, Chapter 11: In Memoriam, Richard I. Brod (1933-2004)	253
Jeffrey L Sammons
Book Reviews
Hanna Fischer-Lamberg, ed., Der junge Goethe. Neu bearbeitete Ausgabe in funf Banden (+ Registerband). Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1963-1974 Unveranderte Neuausgabe 1999	257
Thomas P. Saine