{"title":"World on a Shelf: Submissions of Weltliteratur in Goethe’s Private Library — A Quantitative Approach","authors":"S. Höppner, Ulrike Trenkmann","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2021.1887584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2021.1887584","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In his writings on world literature, Goethe highlights direct ‘intellectual commerce’ between living authors while also emphasizing indirect exchange through intermediaries such as translators. This paper investigates whether book submissions to Goethe mirror these complementary modes on a material level. In our study, we map submissions in foreign literature and German literature in translation across time and space. We also attempt to determine the roles of the submitters with regard to the volumes sent. In practice, we demonstrate that the ‘intellectual commerce’ Goethe appreciated was mostly a domestic, indirect affair — a surprising result that raises questions with respect to the international reach of Goethe’s actual world literary practices.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"90 1","pages":"13 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2021.1887584","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42228124","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":"Material Exchange, Symbolic Recognition: Weltliteratur as Discourse and Practice in Goethe, Carlyle, and Emerson","authors":"Tim Sommer","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2021.1887596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2021.1887596","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Thomas Carlyle’s activity as a translator and promoter of German literature in nineteenth-century Britain was among the chief signs the ageing Goethe read as inaugurating ‘the epoch of world literature’. American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who became Carlyle’s transatlantic friend and ally soon after Goethe’s death, shared the impression that their contemporary moment witnessed global contact and exchange on an unprecedented scale. Reconsidering the Goethe–Carlyle–Emerson nexus through the lens of the concrete materiality of their transnational interactions, this essay demonstrates that Weltliteratur to the three of them was something discursive as well as material, textual as well as social, and theoretical as well as practical.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"90 1","pages":"53 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2021.1887596","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42464232","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 Contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Faust Translations","authors":"Mathelinda Nabugodi","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2021.1887593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2021.1887593","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Percy Bysshe Shelley’s fascination with Goethe’s Faust spanned a large part of his writing career, starting with a line-by-line translation of nearly a thousand lines from the drama’s opening in 1815 and culminating in a poetic rendition of the ‘Prolog im Himmel’ and ‘Walpurgisnacht’ finished shortly before his untimely death in July 1822. This article offers a detailed examination of the two Faust translations and the contexts in which they were produced. The 1815 translation is read against the backdrop of contemporary language learning materials whereas the 1822 translation is brought into relation with Goethe’s conception of Weltliteratur as a web of textual encounters across linguistic boundaries.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"90 1","pages":"31 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2021.1887593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41343962","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 Intimate Book: World Literature, Poetic Rejuvenation, and the Art of Arrangement in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Divan Essay and Buch der Freunde","authors":"A. Guillemin","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2020.1829208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829208","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When Hugo von Hofmannsthal published his aphoristic collection, Buch der Freunde (1922), he borrowed the title from Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan. A mix of original maxims and excerpted quotations, it departs from his famous poems, plays and essays. Reading it alongside Hofmannsthal’s Divan essay, I analyse it as a response to a creative crisis that re-enacts world literature in the spirit of the Divan poet. The lesser-known book intimately unveils Hofmannsthal’s process of regenerative compilation. Yet in paying tribute to late Goethean poetics, Buch der Freunde paradoxically retreats into the modernist private collection and the world-literary past.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"89 1","pages":"190 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829208","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42840899","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":"Illustrations for the Divan in Editions of Goethe’s Works during his Lifetime","authors":"Waltraud Maierhofer","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2020.1829156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829156","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Illustrations accompanied the Divan from the first publication of poems in the Taschenbuch für Damen auf das Jahr 1817 and the frontispiece with writing in Arabic, arabesque ornamentation, and framing of the title page in the 1819 complete first edition. My article investigates the reception of Goethe’s Divan by contemporary artists who provided frontispieces, Titelkupfer, or vignettes for editions of Goethe’s works in the last decade of his life (Ramberg, Eichholzer, and Schnorr von Carolsfeld). It appears that the publishing market was not ready for a wider adaptation of a new West-East combination of traditions suggested by Goethe; the editions were illustrated in the established figurative style, including some clichéd orientalism.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"89 1","pages":"137 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829156","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44775524","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":"Divan-Variationen für das einundzwanzigste Jahrhundert: Thomas Lehrs September und Michael Kleebergs Der Idiot des 21. Jahrhunderts","authors":"C. Nitschke","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2020.1829279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829279","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Thomas Lehrs September: Fata Morgana (2015) and Michael Kleebergs Der Idiot des 21. Jahrhunderts: Ein Divan (2018) productively engage with Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan. Both novels, which were published eight years apart, respond increasingly indirectly to 9/11, its premises and consequences. This article draws on Goethe’s Divan and his thoughts on world literature in order to analyse how the novels conceptualize complex cultural and political connections in a time in which global and planetary contexts are constantly changing.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"89 1","pages":"259 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829279","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41938975","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":"Introduction: The Mixed Reception of Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan","authors":"W. D. Wilson","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2020.1829133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"89 1","pages":"111 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46205526","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":"What Is an Identical Translation? The Legacy of Goethe’s Discussion in the West-östlicher Divan","authors":"T. Beebee","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2020.1829262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829262","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Goethe’s brief discussion of translation in the Noten and Abhandlungen to the Divan has been one of the most widely read and interpreted parts of its prose commentary section. Goethe’s three epochs of translation culminate in translations that are ‘identisch’ with the original. This essay explains what identicality can mean in the realm of translation, including how some of Goethe’s major interpreters in translation studies have understood his comments.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"89 1","pages":"223 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829262","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47573854","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":"Kevin Hilliard, Astrid Köhler, W. Wilson","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2020.1829300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829300","url":null,"abstract":"In connection with the anniversary of the Kazan University, the Department of Social Hygiene undertook the work \"History of the Department of Hygiene of the Kazan University for 125 years.\" Placed in this issue Kaz. med zhurn. \"article\" The first hygienist of the Kazan department Fyodor Kalaydovich \"is the beginning of this work. In connection with the same anniversary, the Department of Social Hygiene turned to the medical press with a letter \"To the old doctors of Kazan\" (see No. I, K.M.Zh., 1929) with a request to deliver material to the history of the medical faculty of Kazan University. that (memories, works, photographs, etc.). This appeal is primarily directed to hygienists, sanitary doctors and community physicians. The department notes with satisfaction that responses to this appeal have begun to arrive.","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"89 1","pages":"279 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829300","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43606624","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":"Hans Siegbert Reiss (19 August 1922 – 2 April 2020)","authors":"Roger Paulin","doi":"10.1080/09593683.2020.1829295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829295","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40789,"journal":{"name":"Publications of the English Goethe Society","volume":"89 1","pages":"276 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829295","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43883632","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}