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Book SynopsisThis year's volume is highlighted by a special section on Goethe's narrative events in addition to a range of other articles from emerging and established scholars. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing 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 26 features a special section on Goethe's narrative events, with contributions on "Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe's "Ballade" vs. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann," "The Absence of Events in Die Wahlverwandtschaften," and "Countering Catastrophe: Goethe's Novelle in the Aftershock of Kleist." This issue also showcases work presented atthe 2017 Atkins Goethe Conference (Re-Orientations around Goethe), including contributions by Eva Geulen on morphology and W. Daniel Wilson on the Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich. In addition there are articles by emerging and established scholars on Klopstock, Schiller, Goethe and objects, dark green ecology, and texts of the Goethezeit and beyond through the lens of world literature. Book reviews conclude the volume. Contributors: Lisa Marie Anderson, Thomas O. Beebee, Fritz Breithaupt, Christopher Chiasson, Patrick Fortmann, Sean Franzel, Eva Geulen, Willi Goetschel, Stefan Hajduk, Samuel Heidepriem, Bryan Klausmeyer, Lea Pao, Elizabeth Powers, James Shinkle, Heather I. Sullivan, Christian P. Weber, W. Daniel Wilson, Karin A. Wurst. The Goethe Yearbook is edited, beginning with this volume, by Patricia Anne Simpson, Professor of German and Chairperson of Modern Languages at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Birgit Tautz, George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College. Book Review Editor is Sean Franzel, Associate Professor of German at the University ofMissouri-Columbia.
Table of ContentsREORIENTATIONS AROUND GOETHE I Morphologie und gegenständliches Denken - Eva Geulen REORIENTATIONS AROUND GOETHE II "Global Mission": The Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich - W. Daniel Wilson SPECIAL SECTION on GOETHE'S NARRATIVE EVENTS What Is an Event for Goethe? - Fritz Breithaupt Much Ado about Nothing? The Absence of Events in Die Wahlverwandtschaften - Christopher Chiasson Countering Catastrophe: Goethe's Novelle in the Aftershock of Heinrich von Kleist - Lisa Marie Anderson Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe's "Ballade" versus Hoffmann's Der Sandmann - Christian P. Weber Remembering Klopstock's Mitausdruck - Lea Pao Strategic Indecision: Gender and Bureaucracy in Schiller's Maria Stuart - Samuel Heidepriem The Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe's Plants in Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären and Triumph der Empfindsamkeit - Heather I. Sullivan The Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe's Plants in Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären and Triumph der Empfindsamkeit - James Shinkle Abschlussbewegungen: Goethe, Freud, and Spectral Forms of Life - Bryan Klausmeyer Ein Mythos und sein doppelter Entzug des Modernen: Prämissen für einen Ausweg aus der Unübersichtlichkeit der Faustforschung - Stefan Hajduk Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Conversation with Things - Karin A. Wurst World Literature Turns Political, 1835/36: The Early Afterlife of Goethe's Pronouncement in German Cultural-Politics and in the Young Germany Movement - Patrick Fortmann Fritz Strich and the Dilemmas of World Literature Today - Elizabeth Powers A Jewish Faust Commentary: Notes on Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption - Willi Goetschel From Idylle to idílio: Mário de Andrade's Parody of Hermann und Dorothea - Thomas O. Beebee Koselleck's Timely Goethe? - Sean Franzel Book Reviews
