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{"title":"Lessing divers. Soziale Milieus, Genderformationen, Ethnien und Religionen By Dirk Niefanger, Wallstein. 2023. pp. 395. € 34,00 (hardcover or ebook)","authors":"Martin Baeumel","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12458","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12458","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 3","pages":"427-429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141670614","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":"Nietzsche's Posthumanism By Edgar Landgraf, University of Minnesota Press. 2023. pp. 260. $112 (hardback), $28 (paperback)","authors":"Andreas Gailus","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12454","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12454","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 3","pages":"443-445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141670399","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":"“Wie alles sich zum Ganzen webt, / Eins in dem andern wirkt und lebt!”: Goethe's Faust I as aesthetic experiment","authors":"Martha B. Helfer","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12450","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12450","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Goethe's <i>Faust I</i> stages an aesthetic experiment akin to the theoretical program of Schiller's <i>Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen</i>: an education of the senses through art, an <i>aesthetic</i> education, in both meanings of the word. The play self-reflexively presents itself as presenting a new aesthetic: a new sensory experience and a new type of art that shares conceptual affinities with the negative representation of the Kantian sublime. Focusing on the weaving metaphors that recur throughout the play, this article argues that the text comprises a negative representation, an aesthetic solution to Faust's quest for knowledge of the Absolute.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 3","pages":"319-336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12450","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141671826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Film History for the Anthropocene: The Ecological Archive of German Cinema By Seth Peabody, Camden House. 2023. pp. 199. $120 (hardback), $29.95 (ebook)","authors":"Maria Stehle","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12461","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12461","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 3","pages":"446-448"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141709035","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":"Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature By Florian Fuchs, Zone Books. 2023. pp. 320. $29.95 (hardback, ebook)","authors":"Bryan Klausmeyer","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12464","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 3","pages":"439-442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141695690","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":"Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University By Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith (Eds.), University of Toronto Press. 2022. pp. 379. $80.00 (hardcover), $80.00 (ebook)","authors":"Ervin Malakaj","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12456","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 3","pages":"415-417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142013683","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":"Combined works cited","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12445","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"241-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140988454","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":"Confessional: Sexuality and textuality","authors":"Robert Deam Tobin","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12439","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12439","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Bob Tobin originally wrote this essay in 2000 as the preface to his first book, &lt;i&gt;Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe&lt;/i&gt;. At the time, however, only one of the reviewers of the manuscript approved of it, so he decided not to include it in the book. In the summer of 2022, when Bob was struggling with liver cancer, he remembered this essay and expressed his desire to have it published, but it was nowhere to be found in his home or office files. Fortunately, he still had the old floppy discs for the book and was able to save the document. We are honored to publish this piece posthumously in this &lt;i&gt;German Quarterly&lt;/i&gt; forum that also includes ten other essays by scholars inspired by Bob's lasting legacy. A note on citations: we have done our best to fill in references where needed; where not otherwise indicated, translations are, we assume, Bob's own.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;    —The Editors&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How did German literature become queer for me? And how did I become queer through German literature?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first time I heard the phrase “confessional criticism” I was entranced, since the personal, the subjective, and the sexual are all bound up with the confessional. Michel Foucault sees modern discourses of sexuality emerging from the early Christian practice of confession, which he claims began the imperative of turning desire into discourse. Augustine and Rousseau both wrote confessions in which an aberrant sexuality informs new models of subjectivity. But the text that best reflects my relationship to confession, sexuality, and subjectivity is Yukio Mishima's &lt;i&gt;Confessions of a Mask&lt;/i&gt;. Mishima did not look to the explanations for his desire in the long tradition of Japanese same-sex relationships, but rather turned to Europe, to Joan of Arc, to the German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, to Oscar Wilde, and to depictions of Cleopatra. Mishima made no claim for the authenticity of this constructed desire, but regarded it as a mask. His coming out was not the discovery of a solid identity, but an investigation of his own construction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I too find myself constructing a mask out of a culture, admittedly a culture much closer to mine than Europe's was to Mishima, but still not an immediately obvious choice. German might seem far from my early life and upbringing. Although there is some German blood in my veins, there are other nationalities—Polish, Scotch-Irish, English—that play at least as important a role in constituting my genetic background. We'd have to go back to my grandmother's grandfather to find German speakers in my family history. But in my own life and academic career, starting in college, German was the language that helped me express myself, organize my thoughts, name my desires, and develop my sexuality. Raised as an American speaking English, I pivoted to this foreign language, the literature written in that language (and for me, literature is often language about language), and critical language to discuss this literat","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"189-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12439","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140997339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Reizend”: German as the language of queer autotheory in Robert Tobin's “Confessional: Sexuality and textuality”","authors":"Peter Rehberg","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12444","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12444","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;German as a language has often been rejected because of its historical associations with orders and violence, only to once again be respected and admired for its capacities of philosophical precision as well as for its musical lyricism. Loving German, however, is not easy: making modern German the language of literature often presents itself as an exercise through which the violent resonances of the language are to be worked out, as is evident in, for example, the works of Hertha Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, and Maxim Biller. For Robert Tobin, as he shares with us in his posthumously published essay, “Confessional: Sexuality and textuality,” German meant something different altogether. Originally written as a preface to his book &lt;i&gt;Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe&lt;/i&gt; (2000), the essay was ultimately not included in the publication, following some objections that were raised by the publisher, being finally rediscovered on an errant floppy disk only two months before Bob's death. Having thought the essay lost, Bob was able to start working on it again and had planned to make the text the centerpiece of a memoir-project entitled &lt;i&gt;Cancer Journals&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was amazed when I read in the essay that, for Bob, German became the language of gay desire, the language of his coming-out. In “Confessional: Sexuality and textuality,” Bob comments on his own journals from the early 1980s which were written during a year abroad in Munich: “I find it highly significant that my first confession about homosexuality is written in German.” One of his early remarks about homosexuality in December 1981, in a paragraph about a woman he found attractive, reads like this: “Verbunden mit dieser Frage ist warum ich athletische Männer reizend finde.” (&lt;i&gt;Reizend&lt;/i&gt; is of course also the use of the word “reizend” here). Bob's first experiences as a gay man and the linguistic construction of his gay identity are written down in German.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In his choice of German as a language of gay desire, Bob doesn't necessarily partake of an established literary tradition. Yes, German is the language of both sexology and psychoanalysis, as well as their Marxist re-readings. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking about sexuality up until Foucault and the emergence of queer theory has in many ways been a German—a German Jewish—project, and Bob, with his last book &lt;i&gt;Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex&lt;/i&gt; (2015), was of course one of the important scholars who illustrated this key point. As we know, Germany was also the country of the first LGBTQ+ movement in the twentieth century, centered around Magnus Hirschfeld, and his forerunners, such as Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs. Yet, in these contexts, German was the language of science and politics, not of desire, highlighting the dissonance in Bob's approach to sexuality in a German linguistic context. “How did German literature become queer to me? And how did I become queer through German literature?” (Tobin, ","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"206-209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12444","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140997514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Expanding trans German studies","authors":"John Harvey O'Hara","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12441","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"237-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141002858","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}