{"title":"Middling Romanticism: Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery by Zachary Sng (review)","authors":"Sean Williams","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116928333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece by Friedrich Hölderlin (review)","authors":"Samuel Sugerman","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124813245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–1850 by Miranda Eva Stanyon (review)","authors":"Tekla Babyak","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130628957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perennial Alternative: Episodes in the Reception of Goethe's Scientific Work by Frederick Amrine (review)","authors":"A. Hahn","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132559500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to Special Section Hölderlin 2020: Reading and Exhibiting","authors":"Meike G. Werner","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128395265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Karl Philipp Moritz's novel Anton Reiser depicts its eponymous protagonist in a detailed pathography of a hypochondriac. Eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century medical writers considered hypochondria a physical disease with mental and emotional components. Medical and literary writers used the disease metaphorically to pathologize nonnormative behaviors, thereby promoting a moral agenda under the guise of inoculating their readers against disease. Anton Reiser is, however, quite innovative in its depiction of this disease. Despite contemporary medical writers' concerns about nonnormative gender roles and sexual behaviors and their relation to hypochondria, Anton's intense, emotional, same-sex friendships do not seem to contribute to his disease in the novel. Instead, the intense male friendships that he cultivates are based on homoerotic desire, but they are not pathologized. Though not depicted as curative, they are shown in a positive light. This article provides a detailed close reading of hypochondria in the novel and reads Moritz's text against the background of contemporary medical discourses on hypochondria and modern criticism on the novel.
{"title":"Hypochondria, Sentimental Friendship, and Same-Sex Desire in Anton Reiser","authors":"E. T. Potter","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Karl Philipp Moritz's novel Anton Reiser depicts its eponymous protagonist in a detailed pathography of a hypochondriac. Eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century medical writers considered hypochondria a physical disease with mental and emotional components. Medical and literary writers used the disease metaphorically to pathologize nonnormative behaviors, thereby promoting a moral agenda under the guise of inoculating their readers against disease. Anton Reiser is, however, quite innovative in its depiction of this disease. Despite contemporary medical writers' concerns about nonnormative gender roles and sexual behaviors and their relation to hypochondria, Anton's intense, emotional, same-sex friendships do not seem to contribute to his disease in the novel. Instead, the intense male friendships that he cultivates are based on homoerotic desire, but they are not pathologized. Though not depicted as curative, they are shown in a positive light. This article provides a detailed close reading of hypochondria in the novel and reads Moritz's text against the background of contemporary medical discourses on hypochondria and modern criticism on the novel.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128773179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1809 novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften depicts two tableaux vivants scenes featuring contrasting female characters: Luciane and Ottilie. As the relationship of these scenes to the rest of the novel has proved enigmatic, I read them in conjunction with Goethe's Regeln für Schauspieler (Rules for Actors) as well as the aesthetic categories of absorption and theatricality from Michael Fried's work of the same name. Since tableaux vivants present a unique theatrical mode that maintains absolute stillness, I claim that it is the theme of movement that attests to their significance. Luciane's tableaux vivants scene is revealed to be an augmented form of actor discipline to restrain her disorderly and unpredictable personality. For Ottilie, the tableaux vivants scene demonstrates how restraining movement is implicated in the established societal norms for behavior.
摘要:约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德1809年的小说《Wahlverwandtschaften》描绘了两个截然不同的女性角色:露西恩和奥蒂莉。由于这些场景与小说其余部分的关系被证明是神秘的,我将它们与歌德的《演员规则》(Regeln f r Schauspieler)以及迈克尔·弗里德(Michael Fried)同名作品中的吸收性和戏剧性的美学范畴结合起来阅读。因为活人舞台呈现出一种独特的戏剧模式,保持绝对的静止,我认为运动的主题证明了它们的意义。露西安的真人场面是演员纪律的一种增强形式,以约束她无序和不可预测的个性。对奥蒂利来说,活人场面展示了限制运动是如何与既定的社会行为规范联系在一起的。
{"title":"Discipline and Theatricality: Tableaux Vivants and the Vicissitudes of Movement in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften","authors":"Matthew Feminella","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1809 novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften depicts two tableaux vivants scenes featuring contrasting female characters: Luciane and Ottilie. As the relationship of these scenes to the rest of the novel has proved enigmatic, I read them in conjunction with Goethe's Regeln für Schauspieler (Rules for Actors) as well as the aesthetic categories of absorption and theatricality from Michael Fried's work of the same name. Since tableaux vivants present a unique theatrical mode that maintains absolute stillness, I claim that it is the theme of movement that attests to their significance. Luciane's tableaux vivants scene is revealed to be an augmented form of actor discipline to restrain her disorderly and unpredictable personality. For Ottilie, the tableaux vivants scene demonstrates how restraining movement is implicated in the established societal norms for behavior.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121879572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz: Plays, Stories, Essays, and Poems by J. M. R. Lenz (review)","authors":"M. Dupree","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129499943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article offers a gender-conscious reading of Joseph von Eichendorff's famous ballad "Waldgespräch" by highlighting the emancipatory elements embedded in the author's changes to Clemens Brentano's original tale of Lore Lay. When read "against the grain," the conversation in the ballad can be viewed as transcribing two opposing discourses: one that encodes hegemonic masculinity by means of a "rational" dualist worldview, and another that disrupts said dominant logic by "conjuring up" an alternative subjectivity to resist patriarchal logocentrism. Furthermore, the article proposes, Eichendorff's Lorelay embodies patriarchy's suppressed Other, meaning that the hunter's supposed death in the forest signifies a victory of the Other.
{"title":"The Witch in His Head: Rupturing the Patriarchal Discourse in Eichendorff's Ballad \"Waldgespräch\"","authors":"Birgit A. Jensen","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers a gender-conscious reading of Joseph von Eichendorff's famous ballad \"Waldgespräch\" by highlighting the emancipatory elements embedded in the author's changes to Clemens Brentano's original tale of Lore Lay. When read \"against the grain,\" the conversation in the ballad can be viewed as transcribing two opposing discourses: one that encodes hegemonic masculinity by means of a \"rational\" dualist worldview, and another that disrupts said dominant logic by \"conjuring up\" an alternative subjectivity to resist patriarchal logocentrism. Furthermore, the article proposes, Eichendorff's Lorelay embodies patriarchy's suppressed Other, meaning that the hunter's supposed death in the forest signifies a victory of the Other.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129931018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politische Freiheit und \"europäische Literatur.\" Goethe, Schiller und Byron in Giuseppe Mazzinis kulturkritischen Essays by Klaus Mönig (review)","authors":"Thomas O. Beebee","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124061114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}