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Essays on the Wilhelm Meister novels, Faust, Goethe's early plays, Schiller's Räuber and on Goethe's thought in relation to current debates on cosmopolitanism and postcoloniality.
The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world.
This year's volume features a cluster of exceptional essays thatshed new light on Goethe's Wilhelm Meister novels and Faust, as well as fascinating articles on the early play Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilen and the poem "Ilmenau," Schiller's Die Räuber, and anessay that places Goethe's thought in relation to current debates about cosmopolitanism and postcoloniality. Engaging reviews of recent publications in Goethe studies round out the volume.
Contributors include Eric Denton, Matt Erlin, Jaimey Fisher, Ingrid Rieger, Rainer Kawa, David Barry, Stephanie Dawson, and John Pizer.
Simon J. Richter is Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania. Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German at Rutgers University.
Contents
Presidential Address (December, 2004) Schiller vs. Goethe: Revisiting the Conflicting Reception Vectors of Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Börne, and Wolfgang MenzelLudwig Börne, and Wolfgang Menzel - Jeffery L. Sammons
Goethe's Mixed Media: The Entertainers in Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern - Dr. Eric Hadley Denton
Goethe's "Ilmenau" and the Origins of the Aesthetic State - Matt Erlin
Familial Politics and Political Families: Consent, Critique, and the Fraternal Social Contract in Schiller's Die RäuberDie Räuber - Jaimey Fisher
Paintings in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister Novels: The Dynamics of Erecting and "Eroding" the Paternal Law - Ingrid Broszeit-Rieger
"Waldplatz," "Wahlplatz": Miszelle zur Golgotha-Konnotaion einer Episode in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre - Rainer Kawa
Shocks from a Sicilian Underworld: Gangi, "Gänge," and a New Source for the "Mütter" in Goethe's Faust - David Barry
"Feuer brennen blau": Rethinking the Rainbow in Goethe's Faust - Stephanie Dawson
Cosmopolitanism and Weltliteratur - John Pizer
"Von jedem öffentlichen Wirken in Deutschland ausgeschloßen": Ein Brief Ottilie von Goethes and Sarah Austin (4. Aug. 1840) - Waltraud Maierhofer
