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New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly
introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment.
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is one of the great names of
the classical age of German literature. One of the last
universalists, he wrote on aesthetics, literary history and theory,
historiography, anthropology, psychology,education, and theology;
translated and adapted poetry from ancient Greek, English, Italian,
even from Persian and Arabic; collected folk songs from around the
world; and pioneered a better understanding of non-European
cultures.A student of Kant's, he became Goethe's mentor in
Strasbourg, and was a mastermind of the Sturm und Drang and a
luminary of classical Weimar. But the wide range of Herder's
interests and writings, along with his unorthodox ways of seeing
things, seems to have prevented him being fully appreciated for any
of them. His image has also been clouded by association with
political ideologies, the proponents of which ignored the message
of Humanitat in histexts. So although Herder is acknowledged by
scholars to be one of the great thinkers of European Enlightenment,
there is no up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to his works in
English, a lacuna this book fills with seventeennew, specially
commissioned essays. Contributors: Hans Adler, Wulf Koepke, Steven
Martinson, Marion Heinz and Heinrich Clairmont, John Zammito,
Jurgen Trabant, Stefan Greif, Ulrich Gaier, Karl Menges, Christoph
Bultmann, Martin Kessler, Arnd Bohm, Gerhard Sauder, Robert E.
Norton, Harro Muller-Michaels, Gunter Arnold, Kurt Kloocke, and
Ernest A. Menze. Hans Adler is Halls-Bascom Professor of Modern
Literature Studies at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. Wulf
Koepke is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German, Texas A&M
University and recipient of the Medal of the International J. G.
Herder Society.
A reassessment of genre that fills a major gap in Goethe's oeuvre
and initiates a radically new reading of Faust. Goethe has long
been enshrined as the greatest German poet, but his admirers have
always been uneasy with the idea that he did not produce a great
epic poem. A master in all the other genres and modes, it has been
felt, should have done so. Arnd Bohm proposes that Goethe did
compose an epic poem, which has been hidden in plain view: Faust.
Goethe saw that the Faust legends provided the stuff for a national
epic: a German hero, a villain (Mephistopheles), a quest (to know
all things), a sublime conflict (good versus evil), a love story
(via Helen of Troy), and elasticity (all human knowledge could be
accommodated by the plot). Bohm reveals the care with which Goethe
draws upon such sources as Tasso, Ariosto, Dante, and Vergil. In
the microcosm of the "Auerbachs Keller" episode Faust has the
opportunity to find "what holds the world together in its essence"
and to end his quest happily, but he fails. He forgets the future
because he cannot remember what epic teaches. His course ends
tragically, bringing him back to the origin of epic, as he
replicates the Trojans' mistake of presuming to cheat the gods.
Arnd Bohm isAssociate Professor of English at Carleton University,
Ottawa.
New readings of a number of Goethe's works, book reviews, and a
listing of North American Goethe dissertations 1989-1999. 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. The book review
section seeks likewise to evaluate a wide selection ofrecent
publications on the period, and is important for all scholars of
18th-century literature. The contributions in volume 10 offer new
readings of several of Goethe's works (in particular Goetz von
Berlichingen, Faust, Italienische Reise, and the Wilhelm Meister
novels), new perspectives on Goethe as a writer, and new
understanding of Goethe's literary/cultural legacy. A supplement
continues the listing of North American Goethe dissertations
thathas been a feature of previous volumes to include the period
1989 to 1999, updating this unique bibliographical resource. Thomas
P. Saine of the University of California, Irvine, has edited all
the volumes of the Goethe Yearbook to date. Volume 10 was edited
with the assistance of Simon J. Richter of the University of
Pennsylvania, who will assume the editorship with volume 11. Ellis
Dye of Macalester College is book review editor.
Presents the first English translation of Herder's foundational
essay along with critical responses to it by today's leading Herder
scholars. In recent years, Johann Gottfried Herder has been the
focus of much interest in the English-speaking world. While he was
long disregarded, current scholarship in both German and English is
revisiting his importance as an early theorist of the limits of
Enlightenment. Increasingly, scholarship is remembering that in the
closing decades of the eighteenth century Herder was one of the
most important alternative voices to Kant. Herder's Versuch uber
das Sein (Essay on Being, ca. 1764) was likely composed in reaction
to Kant's lectures on metaphysics. In it, Herder unfolds his
philosophical project, setting the terms that remained the
foundation of his work throughout his life and influenced Hegel,
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and others. Given the central importance of
the essay and Herder's increasing recognition in the
English-speaking world, it is striking that it has not been
translated into English until now. This volume presents a facsimile
of the manuscript along with a German transcription, an annotated
translation, and critical essays by the most important Herder
scholars writing in German and English today. Contributors: Manfred
Baum, Arnd Bohm, Nigel DeSouza, Ulrich Gaier, Alexander J. B.
Hampton, Marion Heinz, John K. Noyes, Wolfgang Pross, Sonia Sikka.
John K. Noyes is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at
theUniversity of Toronto and Extraordinary Professor at
Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is the author of Herder:
Aesthetics against Imperialism.
Sharply focused essays on the most significant aspects of German
Romanticism. This volume of sharply focused essays by an
international team of scholars deals not only with the most
significant literary, philosophical, and cultural aspects of German
Romanticism -- one of the most influential, albeit
highlycontroversial movements in the history of German literature
-- but also with the history and status of scholarship on the
literature of the period. The introduction and first section
establish an overall framework by placing German Romanticism within
a European context that includes its English counterpart. Goethe
and Schiller are considered, as are the Jena Romantics. The second
section is organized according to the traditional distinctions
between epic,dramatic, and lyric modes of writing, while realizing
that particularly in the Romantic novel, there was an attempt to
blend these three. A final group of essays focuses on German
literary Romanticism's relation to other aspects of German culture:
folklore studies, politics, psychology, natural science, gender
presentation and representation, music, and visual art.
Contributors: Gerhard Schulz, Arnd Bohm, Richard Littlejohns,
Gerhart Hoffmeister, Ulrich Scheck, Claudia Stockinger, Bernadette
Malinowski, Fabian Lampart, Klaus Peter, Gabriele Rommel, Martha B.
Helfer, Kristina Muxfeldt, Beate Allert, Paul Bishop and R. H.
Stephenson, Nicholas Saul Dennis F. Mahoney is Professor of German
and Director of the European Studies Program at the University of
Vermont.
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