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{"title":"Queering Material Nature: Bewitched Bodies and the Limits of the Enlightenment","authors":"Melissa Sheedy","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122310627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"La Roche and Goethe: Gender, Genre, and Influence","authors":"Maryann Piel","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Sophie von La Roche exemplifies the gendered exclusion of eighteenth-century female authors from the German literary canon. Her first novel, Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771), has yet to be fully recognized for its generic innovations in the German epistolary genre and for its direct influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774). A close side-by-side reading of both novels reveals several similarities that set the German epistolary novel apart from the English and French examples. By taking into account the mutual mentorship and collaboration between La Roche and Goethe in the years leading up to the publication of Werther, La Roche's role in the development of the genre becomes evident. The value of recentering La Roche's Sternheim in this manner lies in the ability to better identify the mechanisms that perpetuate the gendered exclusion of authors like La Roche from the German literary tradition, making visible a path to a more inclusive literary canon.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114281397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lotte's Bird, Female Desire, and the Language of \"Sexuality\" in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers","authors":"C. Niekerk","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the 1787 edition of Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, the revised second edition of the text, Goethe added a brief episode that shows Lotte having a bird (a canary) kiss her on the mouth—something she has trained it to do with breadcrumbs. Werther is deeply affected by what he sees, and one can read the couch scene, Werther's assault on Lotte that causes the final breakup between the two of them, as linked to this scene. The canary episode touches on one of the central problems in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers: the fact that Werther and Lotte are driven by desires and urges that we nowadays would call \"sexual\" (they are physical in nature, closely linked to their sense of self, and experienced as absolutely imperative), but for which they have no vocabulary—the term \"sexuality\" would not be invented until the second half of the nineteenth century. Read in the context of the history of sexuality, the significance of Goethe's novel consists in its production of a series of images (metaphors) as means of communication to help us understand this (sexual) dynamic as it develops between Lotte and Werther—in particular, the depiction of female desire in the text. Interpreted from this perspective, the image of the bird kissing Lotte (and also Werther) turns out to be remarkably complex but may help us understand where on the fault line between biology and culture \"sexuality,\" in Goethe's view, is to be situated.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131093358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wilhelm Meisters Erbe. Deutsche Bildungsidee und globale Digitalisierung by Heiko Christians (review)","authors":"Renata T. Fuchs","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0020","url":null,"abstract":"printed side by side and because the individual contributions in some rubrics extend over multiple “issues” of Zeit/Schrift, one trying to read the concluding installment of a five-issue-long piece on the Deutsche Blätter, for example, will have to also page through a systematic piece on “armee-nachrichten” and a collection of headlines from various papers reporting on napoleon’s retreat following defeat at Leipzig in october 1813. admittedly, this format can sometimes lead to unwieldy results: While the systematic pieces function nicely in this format, the meticulous poststructuralist philology characteristic of the longer essays does not always lend itself well to serialization. Yet the effect conveyed to the reader by the work’s formal juxtaposition of times, themes, and rubrics is, above all, a sense that the entire continent of Europe—from the atlantic to moscow, from Riga to naples—was suffused in war during this period and could think of little else than when the next update on the all-consuming fighting would appear. Zeit/Schrift 1813–1815 thus discloses to the reader not just a chronopoetics of irregularity, but also the enduring state of temporal exception that is wartime. as i have tried to suggest, the findings of this book are significant; what its authors are able to extract from a limited selection of journals in a narrow window of time is incredibly rich and will certainly overturn more than a few pieces of conventional wisdom about the time of print periodicals. it also suggests exciting avenues for further work on the media-historical a priori of temporal experience: i have not even been able to mention the muted but persistent engagement with figures like Reinhart Koselleck, whose well-known account of the emergence around 1800 of new experiences of historical time is here shown to rest to an unexpected degree upon the intersections of war, time, and writing in the print periodicals of the napoleonic Wars. (many of these journals, for example, explicitly positioned themselves as “temporary archives” of official documents and eyewitness accounts for “future historians,” floating islands of time that would someday, when the cannon-smoke had cleared, serve as invaluable repositories for historians of the present’s past.) Zeit/Schrift 1813–1815 oder Chronopoetik des “Unregelmäßigen” is, in short, a remarkable contribution to media history, and one can only hope that more works like this will appear from this research group at regular intervals.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125092536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fractured Visions, New Horizons: Debates in Eighteenth-Century Studies beyond German Studies","authors":"B. Tautz","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127469565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Re-Examining (White) Enlightenment Legacies through a German Lens: An Introduction","authors":"P. Simpson, B. Tautz","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116941687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Philosophy ed. by Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge and C. Allen Speight (review)","authors":"Juliana Gondim de Albuquerque","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0023","url":null,"abstract":"biography of a particular concept, or set of concepts, it becomes apparent that the authors often mean very different things when they say Klassik, Klassizismus, or Klassizität. While some, Pfotenhauer, for example, focus on classicism in the narrower sense of the word, that is, on the eighteenth-century conception of classical, primarily Greek, art and literature, others, Gschwandtner and Degner, among others, address the oppressive presence of a national canon, Goethe’s, in particular. some contributions hardly address Klassizität at all. michael Bies’s chapter on Goethe and Kathrin Rosenfield’s on Hölderlin are both excellent interpretations of Goethe’s concept of Handwerk and Hölderlin’s famous translations of sophocles, but the battles they zoom in on are not really between classicism and anticlassicism. Both texts are convincing and thought-provoking studies, but they significantly widen the scope of the book as a whole. Furthermore, one or two possible topics remain underdeveloped. schiller plays a surprisingly small role in the various discussions of the German classicist tradition, whereas Grillparzer is only mentioned in passing by the editors. nor is the polemic entanglement of classicism and romanticism, to which the chapters occasionally refer, dealt with sufficiently. in fact, the conflict between classicist Weimar and romantic Jena contains everything that the book focuses on: the drawing of arbitrary dividing lines, the use and abuse of the classical tradition, changing loyalties within the various constellations, etc. Ehrmann devotes no more than approximately two pages to this historically crucial conflict. instead, one has to turn to sabine schneider’s important 2002 essay, “Klassizismus und Romantik,” or to Harald Tausch’s 2011 book, Literatur um 1800, for more thorough investigations of the “klassisch-romantischen Doppelepoche.” With that said, to anyone interested in historical disputes over art—and quite frankly, who isn’t interested?—Ehrmann and Wolf’s volume offers important insights into the unending conflict over a key concept in aesthetics as well as innovative interpretations of individual contributions to this conflict. in spite of new trends and ideals, Klassizität proves to be an inescapable point of reference, regardless of whether you side with classicism or with anticlassicism or find yourself lost in the no man’s land between these front lines of aesthetics.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128364644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Things of Art and Amor: Mediation in Goethe's Römische Elegien","authors":"Sebastian Meixner, Carolin Rocks","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Poetry versus love, aesthetic form versus sensual experience, ancient past versus present: Goethe's Römische Elegien works through a series of opposites that dominate scholarly discussion to this day. This essay interprets the things of art and Amor as the common ground of a comprehensive mediation that underlies the oppositions noted in scholarship and places lyric form above all else. In a journey through selected elegies of the cycle, the paper thereby focuses on the function of Amor who regulates mediation in various roles. Amor as a clever guide (elegy II*), as a matchmaker (II), as a servant (V), as a rogue and committed teacher (XIII), and as an authority (XIX) who advances to become the leading figure in Goethe's cycle. In its continuous dynamics of playful mediation, it has one clear goal: poetic form.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127742042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unexpected Bodies in Eighteenth-Century German Culture","authors":"P. Simpson, B. Tautz","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125063996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optische Autritte. Marktszenen in der medialen Konkurrenz von Journal-, Almanachs- und Bücherliteratur by Stephanie Gleißner et al. (review)","authors":"C. Macleod","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0026","url":null,"abstract":"borne debris in Jeremias Gotthelf’s Die Wassernot in Emmental (1838) before considering the efforts to resist the erosion of landscape and memory in max Frisch’s Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (1927). Finally, Part 3 (“Triviality”) looks at spaces that contain junk in Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich (1854–55) and surfaces that collect dust and sand in two crime novels by Friedrich Glauser from 1936. Frederick’s deeply researched case studies proceed from careful textual analyses anchored in historical and philosophical contextualization. For example, the chapter on stifter offers a sophisticated reading of a lesser-known text by way of a deep dive into cryptogamic reproduction and classification. considering that collecting was practiced passionately throughout nineteenth-century Europe, it is unclear from Frederick’s study the extent to which his argument is specific to German-speaking culture. Unlike other scholarly forays into literary collecting, Frederick’s sources do not thematize collecting or utilize it as a structural principle. accordingly, his choice of texts, much like the objects they feature, are unexpected and unconventional. The chapter on Frisch, for instance, reveals how efforts to prevent deterioration involve the creation of waste itself when the protagonist’s struggle with dementia results in gathering and displaying information on unwieldy amounts of paper scraps. Thus, The Redemption of Things serves as a logical complement to Frederick’s previous monograph, Narratives Unsettled, which examines digressions and interruptions, elements normally dismissed as types of linguistic detritus. Frederick’s aptitude for discovering relevance in the irrelevant makes for a fascinating read. Even less-persuasive chapters are still richly informative and provoke readers to examine the oft-overlooked pieces and particulates of the world around them with new eyes and newfound curiosity. in the end, the author delivers what his title promises: a model for nonrestorative collecting which acknowledges collection as dispersal and underscores the continuities between realism and modernism. Through amassing such necessarily incomplete or insignificant things, the collector recognizes the precariousness of material culture as essential to modern existence. in accepting an object’s inevitable decay into immateriality, we come to accept the materiality, contingency, and irrevocable decline of our own bodies. only through loss can redemption occur. The redemption of things, as Frederick reminds us, “does not save us from the world of scattered things by ‘fixing’ or ‘restoring’ them; it allows for these things to be experienced fully.” collecting is no longer a mechanism for overcoming alienation and impermanence, but a means of coming to terms with them as conditions of modernity. Those appreciative of austrian and swiss literature along with scholars interested in material culture, collecting, and nonfunctional or “marginal” objects will like","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128903023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}