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Book SynopsisThis volume's Forum section focuses on new directions in eighteenth-century German studies, alongside articles on a diverse range of topics concerning Goethe and the literature and arts of his age. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the Goethezeit. Volume 28 features articles on several of Goethe's signature works (Xenien, Wahlverwandtschaften, Faust), unified by their innovative approaches. It also includes a Forum section seeking to prompt discussion of new directions in eighteenth-century German studies. An essay documenting Goethe's engagement with China and another on Goethe's legacy in post-WWII Argentina emphasize these new directions. Other essays highlight Goethe's inter-arts approaches (music,theater, collecting); interdisciplinary intersections of eighteenth-century literary studies with gender and social history; media theory; and renewed emphasis on materialism. The latter is the focus of a recently convened collaboration on early nineteenth-century inventories presented in this volume. The customary book review section rounds out the volume.
Table of ContentsEclectic Dichotomies in K. P. Moritz's Aesthetic, Pedagogical, and Therapeutic Worlds Sturm und Drang Comedy and the Enlightenment Tradition Heaven Help Us! Journals! Calendars!: Goethe and Schiller's Xenien as Circulatory Intervention Between Nanjing and Weimar: Goethe's Metaphysical Correspondences Projection and Concealment: Goethe's Introduction of the Mask to the Weimar Stage Embarrassment and Individual Identity in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften The Daisy Oracle: A New Gretchenfrage in Goethe's Faust Goethes Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil als Bruch: Zur Semantik des Zauberbegriffs im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert "Ächt antike Denkmale"?: Goethe and the Hemsterhuis Gem Collection Bestseller und Erlebniskultur: Neue medienästhetische Ansätze bei Gisbert Ter-Nedden und Robert Vellusig verdeutlicht an Romanadaptionen von Franz von Heufeld Papierdenken: Blasche, Fröbel, and the Lessons of Nineteenth-Century Paper Modeling The Men Who Knew Too Much: Reading Goethe's "Erlkönig" in Light of Hitchcock Genius and Bloodsucker: Napoleon, Goethe, and Caroline de la Motte Fouqué Instrument or Inspiration? Commemorating the 1949 Goethe Year in Argentina Media Inventories of the Nineteenth Century: A Report from Two Workshops Introduction: Directions in Eighteenth-Century German Studies Medical Humanities and the Eighteenth Century Disability Studies and New Directions in Eighteenth-Century German Studies Goethe's Talking Books: Print Culture and the Problem of Literary Orality Three Observations and Three Possible Directions: Musical and Eighteenth-Century Studies Lessing and Kotzebue: A Black Studies Approach to Reading the Eighteenth Century Law and Literature: Codes as Colonizing Texts and Legal Ideas in Anthropocene Works Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Migrant? or Debunking the Myth of 1955 "Goethe Boom" Films: Bildung Reloaded Book Reviews
