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This book, originally published in 1992, traces the discourse on
the French Revolution in Germany and its contributors investigate
the processes and results of adopting or rejecting the values of
the French Revolution in Germany and reinterprets its documents in
terms of their internalization. One of the questions discussed is
whether the French Revolution is part of Germany's progressive
tradition, that is, whether it has been repressed or whether it
constitutes a viable counter-discourse within the political
culture. The first successful revolution in Germany - the 'Velvet
Revolution' of Autumn 1989 does not fit the definition of 'classic
revolutions, but it ended in a change of power in Germany and in
that respect, this book is an anatomy of German political
consciousness before 1989.
This book, originally published in 1992, traces the discourse on
the French Revolution in Germany and its contributors investigate
the processes and results of adopting or rejecting the values of
the French Revolution in Germany and reinterprets its documents in
terms of their internalization. One of the questions discussed is
whether the French Revolution is part of Germany's progressive
tradition, that is, whether it has been repressed or whether it
constitutes a viable counter-discourse within the political
culture. The first successful revolution in Germany - the 'Velvet
Revolution' of Autumn 1989 does not fit the definition of 'classic
revolutions, but it ended in a change of power in Germany and in
that respect, this book is an anatomy of German political
consciousness before 1989.
Sixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of
the great writers of modernity. Thomas Mann is among the greatest
of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach
a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as
Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his
mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in
Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In
addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann,
this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and
His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his
political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role
as family-father was both refuge and facade; his love of Germany
was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While
in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime
representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism,
and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking
lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his
death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity
understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides
sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They
demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making
particular use of the biographical material that is now available.
Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton
Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter
Putz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans
Vaget. Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is
Lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California,
Irvine.
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.
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Goethe Yearbook 15 (Hardcover)
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New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from
Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800. 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. Goethe Yearbook 15
features an array of interdisciplinary essays,among them articles
on Goethe and such topics as architecture, mineralogy, theatrical
improvisation, and Ulrich von Hutten. Readers will also find two
astute and erudite interpretations of key poems, Alexis und Dora
and Urworte. Orphisch, as well as a compelling exploration of the
legal, social, and economic issues pertaining to the question: "Why
Did Goethe Marry When He Did?" An interpretation of Goethe's
Elective Affinities, two essays on Schiller's plays, and an
incisive analysis by Peter Uwe Hohendahl titled "The New Man:
Theories of Masculinity Around 1800" round out the volume.
Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Yasser Derwiche Djazaerly, Robert
Germany, Albert E. Gurganus, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Jocelyn Hollnad,
Borge Kristiansen, Elizabeth Powers, Daniel Purdy, Peter J.
Schwartz, and Christoph Schweitzer Simon J. Richter is Professor of
German at the University ofPennsylvania, and Daniel Purdy is
Associate Professor of German at Pennsylvania State University.
Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German at
Rutgers University.
New essays examining Goethe's relationship to the Jews, and the
contribution of Jewish scholars to the fame of the greatest German
writer. The success of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing
Executioners(1997) and the heated debates that followed its
publication exposed once again Germany's long tradition of
anti-Semitism as a major cause of the Holocaust. Goldhagen, like
many before him, drew a direct and irresistible line from Luther's
pamphlets against the Jews to Hitler's attempted annihilation of
European Jewry. This collection of new essays examines the thesis
of a universal anti-Semitism in Germany by focussing on its
greatest author, Goethe, and seeing to what extent some scholars
are justified in accusing him of anti-Semitism. It places the
reception of Goethe's works in a broader historical context: his
relationship to Judaism and the Jews; the reception of his works by
the Jewish elite in Germany, the reception of the 'Goethe cult' by
Jewish scholars; and the Jewish contribution to Goethe scholarship.
The last section of the volume treats the Jewish contribution to
Goethe's fame and to Goethe philology since the 19th century, and
the exodus of many Jewish authors and scholars after 1933, when
they took their beloved Goethe into exile. When a few of them
returned to Germany after 1945, it was to a country that had lost
Goethe's most devoted audience, the German Jews. KLAUS L. BERGHAHN
and JOST HERMAND are professors of German at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception
of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist
aspects. The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) -- an
innovative and resonant tragedian and an important poet, essayist,
historian, and aesthetic theorist -- are among the best known of
German and world literature. Schiller's explosive original artistry
and feel for timely and enduring personal tragedy embedded in
timeless sociohistorical conflicts remain the topic of lively
academic debate. The essays in this volume address the many
flashpoints and canonicalshifts in the cyclically polarized
reception of Schiller and his works, in pursuit of historical and
contemporary answers to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's expression of
frightened admiration in 1794: "Who is this Schiller?" The
responses demonstrate pronounced shifts from widespread
twentieth-century understandings of Schiller: the overwhelming
emphasis here is on Schiller the cosmopolitan realist, and little
or no trace is left of the ultimately untenable view of Schiller as
an abstract idealist who turned his back on politics. Contributors:
Ehrhard Bahr, Matthew Bell, Frederick Burwick, Jennifer Driscoll
Colosimo, Bernd Fischer, Gail K. Hart, Fritz Heuer, Hans H. Hiebel,
Jeffrey L. High, Walter Hinderer, Paul E. Kerry, Erik B. Knoedler,
Elisabeth Krimmer, Maria del Rosario Acosta Lopez, Laura Anna
Macor, Dennis F. Mahoney, Nicholas Martin, John A. McCarthy, Yvonne
Nilges, Norbert Oellers, Peter Pabisch, David Pugh, T. J. Reed,
Wolfgang Riedel, Joerg Robert, Ritchie Robertson, Jeffrey L.
Sammons, Henrik Sponsel. Jeffrey L. High is Associate Professor of
German Studies at California State University Long Beach, Nicholas
Martin is Reader in European Intellectual History at the University
of Birmingham, and Norbert Oellers is Professor Emeritus of German
Literature at the University of Bonn.
In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural
sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and
intellectuals--including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt
Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg--who had fled Nazi
Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a
substantial body of major works to address the crisis of modernism
that resulted from the rise of National Socialism. Weimar Germany
and its culture, with its meld of eighteenth-century German
classicism and twentieth-century modernism, served as a touchstone
for this group of diverse talents and opinions.
"Weimar on the Pacific" is the first book to examine these artists
and intellectuals as a group. Ehrhard Bahr studies selected works
of Adorno, Horkheimer, Brecht, Lang, Neutra, Schindler, Doblin,
Mann, and Schoenberg, weighing Los Angeles's influence on them and
their impact on German modernism. Touching on such examples as film
noir and Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus," Bahr shows how this
community of exiles reconstituted modernism in the face of the
traumatic political and historical changes they were living
through.
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