Publications of the English Goethe Society最新文献

{"title":"Race and Colonialism around 1800: Herder, Fischer, Kleist","authors":"J. Raisbeck","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2022.2074284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2022.2074284","url":null,"abstract":"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, practically speaking, it is also an exercise in suspicious reading. Herder’s anti-imperialist and antislavery poems end with an uneasy negotiation of paternalism. Kleist’s novella provides a racially biased narrator, who limits access to the thought processes of non-white characters. Fischer’s short story moves towards upholding an ideal of emancipation, but recoils from its corollary of revolutionary violence, and crafts two images of its protagonist that cannot be reconciled: one of internalized self-hatred, based on racial identity, the other, of a Christ-like saviour for oppressed peoples.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"140 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49011719","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":"Teaching Eighteenth-Century German Literature in the Era of #MeToo: Gender and the Enlightenment Canon","authors":"E. Pilsworth","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2022.2074286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2022.2074286","url":null,"abstract":"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 texts we studied on the course, and consider to what degree these texts can be seen to critique the gender norms and sexual power dynamics of their own day. Finally, I consider the strengths and challenges of the course at the time, and what made it attractive to students who might otherwise have shied away from eighteenth-century literature.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"124 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42331495","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":"Green Glasses in the Classroom: Teaching Heinrich von Kleist","authors":"M. Dirscherl","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2022.2074287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2022.2074287","url":null,"abstract":"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 bridges to other centuries, but also helps generate an awareness of this bridge-building process. Scrutinizing linguistic and narrative detail, considering and reconsidering different points of view, and acknowledging the historical variability of certain concepts and ideas encourages a dialogue between unfamiliar (fictional) worlds and one’s own world of thought and experience.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"110 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42157909","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":"Teaching the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries","authors":"Kevin Hilliard, Astrid Köhler, Charlotte I. Lee","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2022.2074408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2022.2074408","url":null,"abstract":"The chronological spread of what is taught in German Departments in the UK and Ireland has contracted over the years. Once central areas — Aufklärung, Sturm und Drang, Weimarer Klassik, Romanticism, nineteenth-century poetry and fiction— have become marginal. At the same time, the disciplinary outlook has widened. An exclusive focus on literature has given way, in most Departments, to an approach encompassing aspects of cultural and social history, as well as the newer medium of film. There is nothing unnatural or unhealthy about these developments; on the contrary. The needs of our undergraduates and the compelling drama of twentieth-century German history have been powerful drivers of change. Film— the only art invented after antiquity— was scandalously ignored for many decades, and now has its rightful place in the curriculum. Cultural and social history have reinvigorated literary studies, as well as claiming an interest in their own right. The point of raising the status of eighteenthand nineteenth-century literature in our teaching, therefore, is not to hark back to a golden age. It is to ask, instead, what, in this new context, the rich resources of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries can add to what we teach, not in isolation, but in dialogue with contemporary culture, and as a window onto a deeper German(-speaking) past. It is worth raising the question from the point of view of the profession, too. The developments outlined above have widened the gap between British and Irish German Studies on the one hand — or Auslandsgermanistik more generally — and Inlandsgermanistik on the other. Bringing the eighteenth and nineteenth century back into focus would also be a way of keeping open lines of dialogue with our colleagues in the German-speaking countries. It is perhaps worth remembering how significantly distinguished British and Irish Germanists have contributed to the study of these areas in the past. Carrying that tradition forward into the present and future is a legitimate aspiration for the English Goethe Society. This issue derives from discussions on a special panel, sponsored by the EGS, at the 2021 conference of the Association of German Studies. The panel comprised British and Irish Germanists, together with German Germanisten with experience of teaching in the British system. We sought, therefore, to","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"89 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44484344","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":"Civilized Competition: The Beginnings of the English Goethe Society and its Early Relations with the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar","authors":"Fabienne Schopf, Angus Nicholls, Sharon Howe","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2022.2027732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2022.2027732","url":null,"abstract":"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 demonstrates that from its founding in 1886 to the beginning of the First World War, the EGS experienced various crises, not least in its relations with other Goethe societies in Britain and with the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46735999","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":"A Whiteheadian Take on Subjectivity and Philosophical Conceptualization in Goethe’s ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Ganymed’","authors":"C. S. Muenzer","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2022.2027733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2022.2027733","url":null,"abstract":"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 of their grasping moves, or physical and mental ‘prehensions’, constitutes a field of conceptualization that is post-theological and protophilosophical. The problematic Promethean ‘I’, according to this interpretive framing, undergoes a transformative reconfiguration in ‘Ganymed’ through the strategic deployment of the lexemes fassen and fangen, so that its counterpart in subject formation ultimately becomes a Whiteheadian ‘superject’.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"27 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46553022","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":"Naivety and Irony: Goethe’s Musical Needs","authors":"A. Brendel","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2022.2027736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2022.2027736","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"75 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43035883","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":"Goethe and the Aesthetics of Equestrian Art","authors":"Stefanie Stockhorst","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2022.2027735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2022.2027735","url":null,"abstract":"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 equestrian theory. Above all, however, according to his understanding of art, riding can be located not only in the early modern system of the artes, but also in the contemporary aesthetics of autonomy.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"58 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43951075","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":"Goethe’s Faust II: The Redemption of an Enlightened Despot","authors":"Ritchie Robertson","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2022.2027734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2022.2027734","url":null,"abstract":"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 society. In reply, it is argued that Faust is modelled on Enlightenment despots who engaged in land reclamation, often at human cost, for their subjects’ ultimate betterment. Faust’s ascent to heaven does not imply his exoneration, but initiates a process of purification, for which Goethe was indebted to the theologian Origen mediated via Gottfried Arnold.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"91 1","pages":"43 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42215199","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":"","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2021.1999610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2021.1999610","url":null,"abstract":"(2021). Chronicle. Publications of the English Goethe Society: Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 253-253.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138530070","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}