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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to
publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores
some of the issues affecting authors on the semiperiphery, who
often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures
and discourses.
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Goethe Yearbook 12 (Hardcover)
Simon Richter; Contributions by Benjamin K Bennett, Christoph Schweitzer, Cyrus Hamlin, Dieter Borchmeyer, …
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R2,110
Discovery Miles 21 100
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Volume 12 is dedicated to founding editor Thomas P. Saine, and
includes essays on Goethe's novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark,
Bach, Ossian, Goethe reception, and Schiller. 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. Volume 12 honors founding editor Thomas P. Saine with
contributions from prominent scholars such as Ehrhard Bahr,
Benjamin Bennett, Dieter Borchmeyer, Jane Brown, Jill Kowalik, Ruth
Kluger, Meredith Lee, John McCarthy, Jeff Sammons, Helmut
Schneider, Hans Vaget, and more. The volume includes essays on
Goethe's novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark, Bach, Ossian,
Goethe reception, and Schiller. Simon J. Richter is associate
professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of
Pennsylvania. Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is associate
professor of German at the University of Utah.
With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to
publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores
some of the issues affecting authors on the semiperiphery, who
often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures
and discourses.
New essays by leading scholars re-examining major aspects of the
work of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the great Austrian poet and
dramatist. The Viennese poet, dramatist, and prose writer Hugo von
Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was among the most celebrated men of
letters in the German language at the turn of the 19th to the 20th
century. His early poems established his reputation as the `child
prodigy' of German letters, and a few remain among the most
anthologized in the German language. His early lyric dramas
prompted no less a judge than T. S. Eliot to pronounce him, along
with Yeats and Claudel,one of the three European writers who had
done the most to revive verse drama in modern times. His critical
essays attest to the subtle powers of discrimination that marked
him as one of the most discerning literary critics of the day. And
yet he underwent a crisis of cognition and language around 1900,
and from then on turned away from poetry and lyric drama almost
entirely, concentrating instead on more public forms of drama such
as the libretti for Richard Strauss's operas, the plays written for
the Salzburg Festival (of which he was a co-founder), and on
discursive and narrative prose. The body of work that Hofmannsthal
left behind at his premature death is matched in its variety,
breadth, and quality by that of only a handful of German writers.
And yet posterity has not been kind to his reputation: those who
admired the early work for its aesthetic refinement disdained his
turn to more popular forms,whereas many of those who might have
been receptive to the more committed and public stance of his later
work were put off by his conservative politics. This volume of new
essays by top Hofmannsthal scholars re-examines his extraordinarily
rich and complex body of work, assessing his stature in German and
world literature in the new century. Contributors: Katherine Arens,
Judith Beniston, Benjamin Bennett, Nina Berman, Joanna Bottenberg,
DouglasA. Joyce, Thomas A. Kovach, Ellen Ritter, Hinrich C. Seeba,
Andreas Thomasberger, W. Edgar Yates. Professor Thomas Kovach is
Head of the Department of German Studies at the University of
Arizona.
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Goethe Yearbook 17 (Hardcover)
Daniel Purdy; Contributions by Andrew Piper, Benjamin K Bennett, Chad Wellmon, Christian Clement, …
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R2,120
Discovery Miles 21 200
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New articles on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special
section of fresh views of Goethe's Faust. The Goethe Yearbook is a
publication of the Goethe Society of North America, publishing
original English-language contributions to the understanding of
Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also
welcomingcontributions from scholars around the world. Goethe
Yearbook 17 covers the full range of the era, from Karl Guthke's
essay on the early Lessing to Peter Hoeyng's on Grillparzer.
Notable is a special section, co-editedby Clark Muenzer and Karin
Schutjer, that samples some of the exciting new work presented at
the Goethe Society conference in November 2008: 200 years after the
publication of Faust I, eight essays offer fresh views of this epic
masterpiece, often through novel and surprising connections.
Authors link for example Faust's final ascension and the
circulation of weather, verse forms in the drama and the
performance of national identity, the fate of Gretchen and the
occult politics of Francis Bacon. Other papers explore
epistemological structures and taxonomies at work in Goethe's
prose, essays, and scientific writings. Contributors: Frederick
Amrine, Johannes Anderegg, Matthew Bell, Benjamin Bennett, Gerrit
Bruning, Christian Clement, Pamela Currie, Ulrich Gaier, Karl
Guthke, Stefan Hajduk, Peter Hoeyng, Clark Muenzer, Andrew Piper,
Herb Rowland, Heather Sullivan, Chad Wellmon, Ellwood Wiggins,
Markus Wilczek. Daniel Purdy is Associate Professor of German at
Pennsylvania State University. Book review editor Catriona MacLeod
is Associate Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.
New essays providing an overview of the major movements, genres,
and authors of 19th-century German literature in social and
political context. This volume provides an overview of the major
movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in
the period from the death of Goethe in 1832 to the publication of
Freud's Interpretation of Dreams in 1899. Although the primary
focus is on imaginative literature and its genres, there is also
substantial discussion of related topics, including music-drama,
philosophy, and the social sciences. Literature is considered in
its cultural and socio-political context, and the German literary
scene takes its place in a wider European perspective. Following
the editors' introduction, essays consider the impact of
Romanticism on subsequent literary movements, the effectsof major
movements and writers of non-German-speaking Europe on the
development of German literature, and the impact of politics on the
changing cultural scene. The second section presents overviews of
the principal movements ofthe time (Junges Deutschland, Vormarz,
Biedermeier, Poetic Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and
Impressionism), and the third section focuses on the major genres
of lyric poetry, prose fiction, drama, and music-drama. The final
section provides bibliographical resources in the form of a
critical bibliography and a list of primary sources. Contributors
to the volume are distinguished scholars of German literature,
culture, and history from North America andEurope: Andrew Webber,
Lilian Furst, Arne Koch, Robert Holub, Gail Finney, Ernst
Grabovszki, Benjamin Bennett, Jeffrey Sammons, Thomas Pfau,
Christopher Morris, John Pizer, Thomas Spencer. Clayton Koelb is
Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German at the University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Eric Downing is Associate
Professor of German at the same institution.
New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs,
preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism. In
Germany, Weimar Classicism (roughly the period from Goethe's return
to Germany from Italy in 1788 to the death of his friend and
collaborator Schiller in 1805) is widely regarded as an apogee of
literary art. But outside of Germany, Goethe is considered a
Romantic, and the notion of Weimar Classicism as a distinct period
is viewed with skepticism. This volume of new essays regards the
question of literary period as a red herring: Weimar Classicism is
best understood as a project that involved the ambitious attempt
not only to imagine but also to achieve a new quality of wholeness
in human life and culture at a time when fragmentation, division,
and alienation appeared to be thenorm. By not succumbing to the
myth of Weimar and its literary giants, but being willing to
explore the phenomenon as a complex cultural system with a unique
signature, this book provides an account of its shaping beliefs,
preoccupations, motifs, and values. Contributions from leading
German, British, and North American scholars open up multiple
interdisciplinary perspectives on the period. Essays on the novel,
poetry, drama, and theater are joined by accounts of politics,
philosophy, visual culture, women writers, and science. The reader
is introduced to the full panoply of cultural life in Weimar, its
accomplishments as well as its excesses and follies. Emancipatory
and doctrinaire by turns, the project of Weimar Classicism is best
approached as a complex whole. Contributors: Dieter Borchmeyer,
Charles Grair, Gail Hart, Thomas Saine, Jane Brown, Cyrus Hamlin,
Roger Stephenson, Elisabeth Krimmer, Helmut Pfotenhauer, Benjamin
Bennett, Astrida Orle Tantillo, W. Daniel Wilson. Simon J. Richter
is Associate Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.
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