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Focuses on childhood in the Age of Goethe, in addition to various
other topics and works. 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. Volume 14 features a special section on childhood
in the Age of Goethe,co-edited with Anthony Krupp. In addition,
readers will find two essays illuminating Goethe's Triumph der
Empfindsamkeit, an inspired reading of Das Marchen against the
background of Goethe's critique of Newtonian science, a careful
analysis of the daemonic in the poem "Machtiges UEberraschen," and
essays on Egmont and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. Contributors:
Kelly Barry, Paul Fleming, Edgar Landgraf, Liliane Weissberg,Angus
Nicholls, Robin A. Clouser Simon J. Richter is Professor of German
at the University of Pennsylvania, and book review editor Martha B.
Helfer is Professor of German at Rutgers University. Anthony Krupp
is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Miami.
Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth
century-Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War-are well documented, little is
known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the
beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this
volatile postwar moment, when the capital of the world's recently
defeated public enemy assumed great emotional and symbolic meaning.
This is a story not of major intellectual and cultural achievements
(for there were none in those years), but of enormous hopes and
plans that failed. It is the story of members of the once famous
volcano-dancing Berlin intelligentsia, torn apart by Nazism and
exile, now re-encountering one another. Those who had stayed in
Berlin in 1933 crawled out of the rubble, while many of the exiles
returned with the Allied armies as members of the various cultural
and re-educational units. All of them were eager to rebuild a
neo-Weimar republic of letters, arts, and thought. Some were highly
qualified and serious. Many were classic opportunists. A few came
close to being clowns. After three years of "carnival," recreated
by Schivelbusch in all its sound and fury, they were driven from
the stage by the Cold War. As Berlin once again becomes the German
capital, Schivelbusch's masterful cultural history is certain to
captivate historians and general readers alike. This title is part
of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University
of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the
brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on
a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1999.
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