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{"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}

{"title":"Morgenländischer Glanz. Eine deutsche jüdische Literaturgeschichte (1750–1850) by Kathrin Wittler (review)","authors":"Carsten Schapkow","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0030","url":null,"abstract":"articulates the pioneering work of Polo in establishing relations with the imperial court. His efforts laid the foundations for the creation of missionary networks by the Jesuits beginning in 1582 and first established by the italian priest matteo Ricci. chapters 2, 3, and 4 focus on these Jesuit missionary networks and on the Jesuits’ efforts to win china for christianity by cultivating alliances with highly placed confucians and playing that religion off against Buddhism. The Jesuits’ rather convoluted attempts to show the affiliation between confucianism and catholicism culminated in the Rites controversy, (a dispute Purdy cites but never really defines), which led to rifts in the carefully cultivated ties to the imperial chinese court, for the Jesuit missionaries came under increasing pressure from the catholic hierarchy in Rome, which could not accept the idea that confucianism and christianity were theologically compatible. chapters 4 and 5 delineate the collapse of the ming Dynasty and its effects on relations with the Westerners in the chinese empire. This collapse was viewed by many in the West as tragic and led the Baroque Dutch playwright Joost van den Vondel to write a drama on the chinese emperor’s failure to avert the invasion of his kingdom by the manchus. This work, Zungchin (1667) is redolent with elements of the German Trauerspiele roughly contemporary to it and is the focus of chapter 5. Purdy also shows the affiliations with this work and the sympathetic treatment of other leading non-European leaders, such as montezuma in contemporary works illustrating colonial depravity. chapter 6 shows how Wieland’s secular cosmopolitanism also helped shape the world literature paradigm as grounded in sentimentalism and sympathetic identification in contrast to the early Jesuits’ religious syncretism. chapter 7 illustrates how such sympathetic identification across space, time, and cultures is evident in the work of adam smith, who speculated on how Europeans might develop an emotional bond with the chinese in the event of a major earthquake in china. chapters 8, 9, and 10 explore how Goethe drew parallels between Buddhist/Jesuit disputations in china and the German debates between Kantians and idealists in the later years of his life. Goethe’s establishment of such parallels led to his speculative synthesis of chinese and European poetic works, culminating in his late poetry inspired by his reading of such chinese novels as The Two Fair Cousins. albeit somewhat marred by numerous typos and grammatical errors, Purdy’s book breaks new ground in showing how mercantile, political, religious, and cultural border crossings between china and Europe significantly shaped the contours of the mature Goethe’s thought and oeuvre.","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":"127593561","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":"Wielands Singspiel Alceste, ein Stein des Anstoßes für Goethe?","authors":"H. Hahn","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Der Artikel diskutiert Wielands Alceste, einen Schlüsseltext der Empfindsamkeit und Auslöser des \"Literaturstreits\" mit Goethe und stellt sowohl strukturelle Ähnlichkeiten von Alceste mit Lessings bürgerlichem Trauerspiel fest als auch Alceste als Vorläufer zur deutschen Oper dar. Wielands Abhandlungen zum Singspiel, einem Genre \"zur Beförderung der Humanität,\" bleiben zentral; wir sehen daher die Zähmung der Leidenschaften und Konzentration auf einen \"mittleren Charakter\" zur Hervorhebung \"rein menschlicher Emotionen.\" In der Interpretation der Alceste stehen Betonung von Freundschaft, Liebe und Tugend und einer mitmenschlichen Opferbereitschaft im Mittelpunkt, ebenso die Rolle Admets, einem an Lessing gemahnenden mittleren Charakter und eine \"Vermenschlichung\" von Herkules, während das \"Elysium\" ins wirkliche Leben verlegt wird. Goethes Götter, Helden und Wieland wird als Lukianisches Totengespräch verstanden; vorgeblich gegen Alceste gerichtet, erscheint es hauptsächlich aber als eine Verteidigung des Sturm und Drang, insbesondere des Götz von Berlichingen. Wielands Responz zu Goethes Pasquill, seine Verteidigung des mittleren Helden gegen das Übermenschkonzept des Sturm und Drang, ebenso Hinweise auf Shakespeare und die französischen Tragödien, erscheinen als weitere Aspekte in diesem Literaturstreit. Der Aufsatz endet mit einer partiellen Versöhnung Goethes mit Wieland nach dessen Ankunft in Weimar und Wielands \"Mitwirkung\" an der Komposition von Goethes Iphigenie.","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":"128367766","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":"Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe by Daniel Leonhard Purdy (review)","authors":"J. Pizer","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0029","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":"127356241","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":"The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Adrian Daub (review)","authors":"Joseph D. O’Neil","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Emmanuel macron, Elon musk, und andy Warhol, erwähnt. Zitiert werden nicht nur stellen aus verschiedenen literarischen Werken, wie z. B. diejenigen von Platon, aristoteles, sophokles, aber auch aus einem Lied von Frank Zappa: “information is not knowledge. Knowldege is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. music is the best.” Die schwäche christians arbeit liegt in der Tatsache, dass die Frauen fast unerwähnt blieben. im Personen Register findet der Leser 323 männer und nur sieben Frauen. Dadurch entsteht eine informationslücke. Es stellt sich nämlich die Frage, ob die Frauen zum Thema Bildung nichts zu sagen vermochten. im Hinblick auf die Bedürfnisse der Leser wird diese arbeit für alle Forscher, die sich mit der medienwissenschaften (insbesondere aber nicht nur in Deutschland) beschäftigen, vom nutzen sein.","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":"122300138","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":"Die Aufklärung der Aufklärung: Lessing und die Herausforderung des Christentums by Hannes Kerber (review)","authors":"Joseph A. Haydt","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0027","url":null,"abstract":"themselves. a fashion plate in the Wiener Zeitschrift of 1842, for example, which published serial reportage by adalbert stifter on the solar eclipse of that year, alongside articles by other authors responding to the same event, reacted in a subsequent issue to the eclipse. The July 21 plate, which postdates the eclipse, pictures two ladies equipped with a telescope but who are focusing instead on the already effected medial conversion of the natural event into reading material: one presents to the other a brochure in a format reminiscent of the Wiener Zeitschrift and which bears the title “Beschreibung der sonnenfinsterniß 1842.” This argumentative thrust is a very helpful corrective, indeed, to scholarly views that have accepted more or less at face value receptions such as annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s caustic remarks about the 1846 Rheinisches Taschenbuch: if she, unlike schlegel, appreciated its visually appealing bindings and illustrations, it was now its chaotic and middlebrow literary contents that fell far short of its material form. What the authors of Optische Auftritte collectively demonstrate is that serial publications of the first half of the nineteenth century called not for simple-minded consumption but for poetically active readers who could read backward while anticipating future installments across issues and publications, who could parse the interactions between words and images, and who were attuned to the medial differences and exchanges between Taschenbücher, calendars, journals, weekly newspapers, and books. a richly argued, documented, visualized, and informative survey of journal production across a range of German and austrian literary marketplaces in the first half of the nineteenth century, the heyday of the serial journal, this volume will be essential reading for scholars of book history and the material text.","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":"127535448","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":"Reading Texts Performatively: Disruptive Gestures in Heinrich von Kleist","authors":"Katherine Pollock","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article investigates how Heinrich von Kleist's gestures interrupt cognitive processes and implicate the embodied reader in the text—as a participant in the collective performance of meaning. While Kleist does not present a comprehensive theory of gesture, he provides threads to follow that address the role of gesture in epistemology and aesthetics in two of his two well-known essays, \"Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden\" (\"On the Gradual Formulation of Thoughts While Speaking\") and \"Über das Marionettentheater\" (\"On the Theater of Marionettes\"). By reading these essays with and through Kleist's novella Das Erdbeben in Chili (The Earthquake in Chile), gestures become visible as productive interruptions of cognition that both disrupt hermeneutic interpretations and draw matter into the process of meaning-making—including the body of the reader. This dynamic comes into sharp relief when considered in conjunction with contemporary theories (e.g., those of Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, and Rebecca Schneider) of performance that illuminate the role of bodies in conceptual activity. With a performative approach, the reader can embrace their entanglement in the text and participate in the ongoing (re)configuration of meaning—two features that are unique to aesthetic engagement with Kleist's writing.","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":"114677673","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":"The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism by Samuel Frederick (review)","authors":"A. Meyertholen","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0025","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":"131704404","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":"The Persistence of Bias in German Eighteenth-Century Studies","authors":"M. Daley","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0004","url":null,"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 stimulating discussion and contributing actively to positive change in the field. To support my opinion, i argue as a scholar for other scholars and begin by looking back at the same relevant issues of canonicity and period themselves and measure both how times have changed and how they have not, comparing the specific case of women authors in German literature to more general developments in the humanities overall. in 1783, sophie von La Roche published the passage below in her journal, Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter, addressing her readers directly, speaking as a woman to women about women:","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":"134297324","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 Plant Bodies","authors":"Heath Sullivan","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2023.0016","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":"126954283","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}