Goethe Yearbook 25

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and theGoethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on acoustics around 1800.

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on acoustics around 1800.



TheGoethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of theGoethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 25 features a special section on acoustics around 1800, edited by Mary Helen Dupree, which includes, among others, contributionson sound and listening in Ludwig Tieck'sDer blonde Eckbert (Robert Ryder) and on the role of the tympanum in Herder's aesthetic theory (Tyler Whitney).

The volume also contains essays on Goethe and stage sequels(Matthew Birkhold), on figures of armament in eighteenth-century German drama (Susanne Fuchs), on the dialectics ofBildung inWilhelm Meister (Galia Benziman), on the Gothic motif in Goethe'sFaust and "Von deutscher Baukunst" (Jessica Resvick), on Goethe and Salomon Maimon (Jason Yonover), on Goethe's "Novelle" (Ehrhard Bahr), and on Schiller's Bürger critique (Hans Richard Brittnacher).

Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Galia Benziman, Matthew H. Birkhold, Hans Richard Brittnacher, Linda Dietrick, Mary Helen Dupree, Susanne Fuchs, Deva Kemmis, Jessica C. Resvick, Robert Ryder, Patricia Anne Simpson, Chenxi Tang, Tyler Whitney, Jason Yonover, Chunjie Zhang.

Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford University. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California Davis.

What Goethe Heard: Special Section on Hearing and Listening in the Long Eighteenth Century
Behind Herder's Tympanum: Sound and Physiological Aesthetics, 1800/1900
Becoming the Listener: Goethe's "Der Fischer"
Of Barks and Bird Song: Listening in on the Forgotten in Ludwig Tieck'sDer blonde Eckbert
Garden Empire or the Sublime Politics of the Chinese-Gothic Style
Die Austreibung des Populären: Schillers Bürger-Kritik
Goethe and the Uncontrollable Business of Appropriative Stage Sequels
Repetition and Textual Transmission: The Gothic Motif in Goethe'sFaust and "Von deutscher Baukunst"
"Die gewalt'ge Heldenbrust": Gender and Violence in Goethe'sIphigenie auf Tauris
Literary Form and International World Order in Goethe: FromIphigenie toPandora
Two Gifts from Goethe: Charlotte von Stein's and Charlotte Schiller's Writing Tables
Goethe'sWilhelm Meister and the Refusal to Grow Up: The Dialectics ofBildung
"So steh' ich denn hier wehrlos gegen dich?" - Figures of Armament and Disarmament in German Drama before and after the French Revolution
Goethe, Maimon, and Spinoza's Third Kind of Cognition
Die Neuvermessung von Lyrik und Prosa in GoethesNovelle
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