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{"title":"‘Wir hätten keine Zukunft mehr?’ Hedwig Dohm’s Future-Orientated Ideas of Aging in Feminist Writings from the 1900s and her Short Story <i>Werde, die du bist</i>","authors":"Charlotte Woodford","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2255983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2255983","url":null,"abstract":"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’ (1912), and her short story Werde, die du bist (1894) highlight how addressing the question of old age requires a transformation of attitudes towards the human. This essay draws on Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy in The Coming of Age (La vieillesse, 1970) to explore the notion of age as a ‘cultural fact’ in relation to Hedwig Dohm’s critical engagement with the marginalization of women. Dohm’s writings — from her own later years — intervene to cast light on cultural double standards concerning a gendered life course; they also engage with the otherness of the body and reflect on ways of keeping the future open to alternative possibilities.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134971258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>Lotte in Weimar</i> : ‘Aber aus Küssen werden keine Kinder.’ Thomas Mann’s Reflections on the Artist: The Dilemma between the Artist and ‘Menschlichkeit’","authors":"Hans-Joachim Hahn","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2255984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2255984","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn 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 concepts of ‘Wiederholung’ and recreation. The statement ‘Aber aus Küssen werden keine Kinder’ serves as a leitmotiv, treating Lotte’s ‘Menschlichkeit’ with specific reference to her ‘Weiblichkeit’ in comparison to Goethe’s artistic ‘Lebenserneuerung aus dem Geist’. Mann’s work on this novel will be discussed within the framework of German fascism, experienced mainly during his exile in America. A shorter form of this paper was given at the annual conference of the Association of German Studies in Nottingham (5th to 7th September 2022).KEYWORDS: Thomas MannGoetheLotte in Weimarfeminist aestheticsirony‘Wirklichkeit’ and ‘Möglichkeit’metamorphosis‘Opfer’geniusfragmentWeimar society‘Kunstperiode’HeineGrillparzer Notes1 Werner Frizen, ‘“Den Mythos auf die Beine stellen”: Die Mensch-Werdung Goethes in Thomas Manns Roman Lotte in Weimar’, in Im Namen Goethes: Erfundenes, Erinnertes und Grundsätzliches zum 250. Geburtstag Johann Wolfgang von Goethes, ed. by Markus Hänsel-Hohenhausen (Frankfurt/Main: Goethe Gesellschaft, 1999), pp. 32–39 (p. 39).2 Friedhelm Marx, ‘Lotte in Weimar’, in Thomas Mann Handbuch: Leben, Werk, Wirkung, ed. by Andreas Blödorn and Friedhelm Marx (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2015), p. 65.3 Hinrich Siefken, ‘Thomas Mann’s Lotte in Weimar: A Lustspiel’, Oxford German Studies, 11 (1980), 105–22.4 ‘Comedy’ in Dictionary of World Literature, ed. by Joseph T. Shipley (Paterson, NJ: Littlefield, 1964), p. 66-71 (p. 66).5 Julius Petersen, ‘Erdentage und Ewigkeit: Rede bei der Reichsgedächtnisfeier in Weimar am 22 März 1932’, Jahrbuch der Goethe-Gesellschaft, 18 (1932), 3–22 (p. 3).6 Hannelore Mund, Understanding Thomas Mann (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004), p. 156.7 Cf. Friedhelm Marx, ‘“Die Menschwerdung des Göttlichen”: Thomas Manns Goethe-Bild in Lotte in Weimar’, Thomas Mann Jahrbuch, 10 (1997), 113–32.8 Cf. Hans J. Hahn, ‘Kahlschlag und Dschungel in der deutschen Germanistik nach 1945’, GLL, 43.3 (1990), 246–66, in particular pp. 252–54.9 Heinrich Heine, Sämtliche Werke, Düsseldorfer Ausgabe, ed. by Manfred Windfuhr, 16 vols (Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1973–97), viii: Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland. Die romantische Schule (1979), p. 155.10 Thomas Mann, ‘[On myself], 1940’, in T. Mann, Gesammelte Werke, 2nd edn, 13 vols. (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer, 1974), xiii, 127–69 (p. 169).11 Gisela Ecker, Feminist Aesthetics (London: The Women’s Press, 1985), p. 17. Cf. also: Hans J. Hahn, ‘The Unacknowledged Legislator of the Text: Some Observations on Literary Criticism in the Federal Republic of Germany’, in New Ways in Germanistik, ed. by Richard Sheppard (New York: Berg, 1990), pp. 34–57 (p. 51).12 Thomas Mann, Lotte in Weimar: Roman, ed. by Werner Frizen, 2 vols (= Große kommentierte Frankfurter Ausgabe","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134971254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ludwig Tieck’s <i>Kaiser Octavianus</i> as the Capstone of Early Romanticism","authors":"Flavio Auer","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2255986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2255986","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWhen 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 intend to explore what might have motivated Tieck’s decision and to what extent it can be justified. Firstly, I will argue that Kaiser Octavianus fulfils a requirement for good poetry formulated in the early essay ‘Über Shakspeare’s Behandlung des Wunderbaren’ (1793) that the poet should take subjects from folklore and sublimate them, thus creating a combination of simplicity and artificiality. Secondly, the drama can also be considered a contribution to the creation of a new mythology as proposed by Tieck’s associate Friedrich Schlegel. Thirdly, Kaiser Octavianus constitutes an example of Schlegel’s ‘Universalpoesie’, mixing genres and styles in a drama of epic proportions.KEYWORDS: TieckKaiser OctavianusRomanticismnew mythologychapbook adaptationuniversal poetry Notes2 Ludwig Tieck’s Schriften, 28 vols (Berlin: Reimer, 1828–54). References to the first volume of this edition are given as Schriften I in the main text, followed by page numbers.3 All quotations are taken from the first edition: Kaiser Octavianus: Ein Lustspiel in zwei Teilen von Ludwig Tieck (Jena: Frommann, 1804). References are given as simple page numbers in the text.4 Ludwig Tieck, ‘Über Shakspeare’s Behandlung des Wunderbaren’, in Schriften, ed. by Hans Peter Balmes and others, 12 vols (Frankfurt/Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1985–95), i: Schriften 1789–1794, ed. by Achim Hölter (1991), pp. 685–722 (pp. 686–87).5 This question is also discussed in the frame narrative of Phantasus, where a nuanced answer is given: in prose fiction, the poet should invent the plot himself, whereas the dramatic poet does not have to (Tieck, Schriften, ed. by Balmes and others, vi: Phantasus, ed. by Manfred Frank (1985), p. 147).6 Cf. Stefan Scherer, Witzige Spielgemälde: Tieck und das Drama der Romantik (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2003), p. 365.7 Ludwig Tieck, Peter Lebrecht: Eine Geschichte ohne Abentheuerlichkeiten, in Ludwig Tieck’s Sämmtliche Werke, 8 vols (Berlin: Nicolai, 1799), iv/2, 31–32.8 Ludwig Tieck, ‘Die Geschichte von den Heymons Kindern, in zwanzig altfränkischen Bildern’, in Ludwig Tieck’s Sämmtliche Werke, VI, 243–366 (p. 246).9 Cf. Ernst Lüdtke, ‘Ludwig Tiecks Kaiser Octavianus: Ein Beitrag zur romantischen Geistesgeschichte’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Greifswald, 1925), p. 14. In this essay, the edition Florent et Lyon = Kaiser Octavianus, trans. by Wilhelm Salzmann, ed. by Xenja von Ertzdorff and Ulrich Seelbach (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993) is used.10 Cf. Lüdtke, p. 123.11 Cf. Ernst Halter, Kaiser Octavianus: Eine Studie über Tiecks Subjektivität (Zürich: Juris, 1967), pp. 55–159.12 Friedrich von Schlegel, Gespräch über die Poesie, in Kritische Friedrich-Schlegel-Ausgabe, ed. by Ernst Behler and others (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1958–), ii: Chara","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134971256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reclaiming the Female Storyteller in the Nineteenth Century: Strategies of Adaptation and Resistance in the Works of Laura Gonzenbach and Carmen Sylva","authors":"Anja Rekeszus","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2256007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2256007","url":null,"abstract":"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 their own social and political agendas. By focussing on fairy tales written by Laura Gonzenbach (Sicilianische Märchen, 1870) and Carmen Sylva (Pelesch-Märchen, 1883), this paper shows how these writers apparently adapted to and embraced stereotypes of the female storyteller — particularly women’s alleged role as intermediaries, rather than editors, of fairy tales, and their supposed inherent connection to nature. However, historical contextualization as well as in-depth textual analyses expose how the writers in question instrumentalized these tropes in order to follow their own agendas, namely: amplifying women’s voices and questioning gender categories (Gonzenbach), and laying claim to power that is legitimized by a connection with nature (Sylva).","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134971255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chronicle","authors":"Astrid Köhler, Charlotte Lee, Charlie Louth","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2256068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2256068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134971257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Iphigenie auf Tauris, Torquato Tasso, and the Imagery of Character","authors":"Michael White","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2212442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2212442","url":null,"abstract":"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 century theoretical and popular texts, such as stability, independence, influence, and limitation or focus. It demonstrates how this imagery of character informs the inner logic of the plays, structures the relationships between the individual characters, and how, through it, the dramas can be seen as offering literary reflections on character as a concept. Character emerges as a modern ideal, difficult to achieve yet realistic, worthy of admiration, yet universal.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46031555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"(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)","authors":"Helena de Guise","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2212446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2212446","url":null,"abstract":"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 nature of German national identity. This identity is revealed to be underpinned by colonial tropes of difference which simultaneously structure internal European hierarchies. Yet, far from simply affirming a naturalistic or fixed hierarchy of cultural authority, irony at a narrative level elucidates how norms are both socially and textually constructed, and, by extension, unstable. In this way, troubling the distinction between cultural truths and social fictions, this essay explores the way in which the works problematize to what extent norms are, in fact, normative.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47754203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Anti-Jacobin Reaction against German Drama and Philosophy in Britain, 1798–1804","authors":"Catherine Angerson","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2212444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2212444","url":null,"abstract":"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 politicians. The Anti-Jacobin’s monthly successor, the Anti-Jacobin Review, mounted a more earnest attack on German philosophy, and its contributors introduced some of the ideas of Fichte, Kant, and Herder to a conservative Anglican and Scottish Episcopalian readership. This article shows that some contributions display signs of extreme paranoia and exaggeration inspired by Jacobin-Illuminati conspiracy theories, while others demonstrate a considerable knowledge of the German books and ideas that they are attacking.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49617017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reines Licht: Blindness, Religion, and Morality in Selected Early Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen","authors":"C. M. Cross","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2212445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2212445","url":null,"abstract":"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 with the religious model — should be a symbiotic methodological approach that locates the disability in the moral fabric of the tales rather than in the individual. My analysis shows that blindness equals damnation in the KHM. Evil characters are punished with it due to sin and a lack of morality, whereas good characters are saved from such a punishment. This salvation often takes the form of miraculous healing, often by God.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45013542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Incredible, that’s Literature!’ Attempts at Remoralizing Academic Disciplines, Politics, and the Professions with the Help of ‘Belles-Lettres’","authors":"W. Lepenies","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2023.2168149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2023.2168149","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47599717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}