Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2074284
J. Raisbeck
ABSTRACT Herder’s ‘Neger-Idyllen’, Kleist’s Die Verlobung in St. Domingo, and Caroline Auguste Fischer’s William der Neger offer an exploration of the intersection between race and colonialism in the Atlantic World and in Europe around 1800. Teaching students to read depictions of race, violence, and struggles for emancipation does not only engage with the fraught legacies of the Enlightenment, but, practically speaking, it is also an exercise in suspicious reading. Herder’s anti-imperialist and antislavery poems end with an uneasy negotiation of paternalism. Kleist’s novella provides a racially biased narrator, who limits access to the thought processes of non-white characters. Fischer’s short story moves towards upholding an ideal of emancipation, but recoils from its corollary of revolutionary violence, and crafts two images of its protagonist that cannot be reconciled: one of internalized self-hatred, based on racial identity, the other, of a Christ-like saviour for oppressed peoples.
摘要Herder的《Neger Idyllen》、Kleist的《Die Verlobung in St.Domingo》和Caroline Auguste Fischer的《William der Neger》探讨了1800年前后大西洋世界和欧洲种族与殖民主义之间的交叉。教学生阅读对种族、暴力和解放斗争的描述，不仅涉及启蒙运动的令人担忧的遗产，而且从实际意义上讲，这也是一种可疑阅读的练习。赫尔德的反帝国主义和反奴隶制诗歌以不安的家长式谈判结束。克莱斯特的中篇小说提供了一个带有种族偏见的叙述者，他限制了非白人角色的思维过程。菲舍尔的短篇小说致力于维护解放的理想，但对革命暴力的必然结果感到退缩，并塑造了两个无法调和的主人公形象：一个是基于种族身份的内化的自我仇恨，另一个是被压迫人民的基督般的救世主。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2074286
E. Pilsworth
ABSTRACT This article presents the course ‘Seduction and Destruction: 1772–1808’, which I taught at Bristol in 2017, at the time of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and ensuing #MeToo debate. I argue for the examination of gender ideologies as a way into more traditionally studied eighteenth-century concepts and movements such as Aufklärung, Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. I offer an overview of the texts we studied on the course, and consider to what degree these texts can be seen to critique the gender norms and sexual power dynamics of their own day. Finally, I consider the strengths and challenges of the course at the time, and what made it attractive to students who might otherwise have shied away from eighteenth-century literature.
本文介绍了我于2017年在布里斯托尔大学教授的“诱惑与毁灭:1772-1808”课程，当时正值哈维·温斯坦丑闻和随后的#MeToo辩论。我主张对性别意识形态进行研究，将其作为更传统地研究18世纪概念和运动的一种方式，如Aufklärung、Sturm und Drang和浪漫主义。我概述了我们在课程中学习的文本，并考虑这些文本在多大程度上可以被视为对当今性别规范和性权力动态的批判。最后，我考虑了当时这门课程的优势和挑战，以及是什么让它吸引了那些可能会回避18世纪文学的学生。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2074287
M. Dirscherl
ABSTRACT Michael Kohlhaas is one of Heinrich von Kleist’s most studied texts. While students may find the dense and complex narrative challenging to understand and interpret, the tale lends itself well to train critical thinking, a key skill in the study of Modern Languages. In a close reading, I argue that engaging with literature from the more distant past, including Kleist’s tale, not only builds bridges to other centuries, but also helps generate an awareness of this bridge-building process. Scrutinizing linguistic and narrative detail, considering and reconsidering different points of view, and acknowledging the historical variability of certain concepts and ideas encourages a dialogue between unfamiliar (fictional) worlds and one’s own world of thought and experience.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2074408
Kevin Hilliard, Astrid Köhler, Charlotte I. Lee
The chronological spread of what is taught in German Departments in the UK and Ireland has contracted over the years. Once central areas — Aufklärung, Sturm und Drang, Weimarer Klassik, Romanticism, nineteenth-century poetry and fiction— have become marginal. At the same time, the disciplinary outlook has widened. An exclusive focus on literature has given way, in most Departments, to an approach encompassing aspects of cultural and social history, as well as the newer medium of film. There is nothing unnatural or unhealthy about these developments; on the contrary. The needs of our undergraduates and the compelling drama of twentieth-century German history have been powerful drivers of change. Film— the only art invented after antiquity— was scandalously ignored for many decades, and now has its rightful place in the curriculum. Cultural and social history have reinvigorated literary studies, as well as claiming an interest in their own right. The point of raising the status of eighteenthand nineteenth-century literature in our teaching, therefore, is not to hark back to a golden age. It is to ask, instead, what, in this new context, the rich resources of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries can add to what we teach, not in isolation, but in dialogue with contemporary culture, and as a window onto a deeper German(-speaking) past. It is worth raising the question from the point of view of the profession, too. The developments outlined above have widened the gap between British and Irish German Studies on the one hand — or Auslandsgermanistik more generally — and Inlandsgermanistik on the other. Bringing the eighteenth and nineteenth century back into focus would also be a way of keeping open lines of dialogue with our colleagues in the German-speaking countries. It is perhaps worth remembering how significantly distinguished British and Irish Germanists have contributed to the study of these areas in the past. Carrying that tradition forward into the present and future is a legitimate aspiration for the English Goethe Society. This issue derives from discussions on a special panel, sponsored by the EGS, at the 2021 conference of the Association of German Studies. The panel comprised British and Irish Germanists, together with German Germanisten with experience of teaching in the British system. We sought, therefore, to
这些年来，在英国和爱尔兰的德语系中，教学内容的时间顺序一直在缩小。曾经的中心领域——Aufklärung、Sturm und Drang、魏玛古典音乐、浪漫主义、19世纪诗歌和小说——已经变得边缘化。与此同时，学科视野也拓宽了。在大多数院系中，对文学的专门关注已经让位于涵盖文化和社会历史各个方面以及电影这一较新的媒介的方法。这些发展并不是不自然或不健康的;恰恰相反。我们本科生的需求和二十世纪德国历史的引人注目的戏剧已经成为变革的强大驱动力。电影——唯一一门在古代之后发明的艺术——在几十年里被可耻地忽视了，现在在课程中有了它应有的位置。文化和社会历史为文学研究注入了新的活力，同时也对文学研究本身产生了兴趣。因此，提高十八、十九世纪文学在我们教学中的地位，并不是要回到一个黄金时代。相反，我们要问的是，在这个新的背景下，18世纪和19世纪的丰富资源可以为我们的教学增添什么，不是孤立地，而是与当代文化对话，并作为一扇通往更深层次的德语(讲德语的)过去的窗口。从专业的角度提出这个问题也是值得的。以上概述的发展扩大了英国和爱尔兰德语研究(或者更广泛地说，是澳大利亚日耳曼学)和内陆日耳曼学之间的差距。把18和19世纪重新纳入焦点，也将是与我们在德语国家的同事保持开放对话的一种方式。也许值得记住的是，英国和爱尔兰的德国学者在过去对这些领域的研究做出了多么显著的贡献。将这一传统延续到现在和未来，是英国歌德协会的一个合理愿望。这一问题源于德国研究协会2021年会议上由EGS赞助的一个特别小组的讨论。小组成员包括英国和爱尔兰的德国人，以及在英国体系中有教学经验的德国人。因此，我们设法
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2027733
C. S. Muenzer
ABSTRACT Guided by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and the transcendental materialism of Gilles Deleuze, this reading of Goethe’s ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Ganymed’ constructs the hymns’ defining polarity with reference to the ‘subjective aims’ of their ‘conceptual personae’. While each mythological figure is driven by a primordial ‘feeling’ along its separate path of ‘satisfaction’, the sum of their grasping moves, or physical and mental ‘prehensions’, constitutes a field of conceptualization that is post-theological and protophilosophical. The problematic Promethean ‘I’, according to this interpretive framing, undergoes a transformative reconfiguration in ‘Ganymed’ through the strategic deployment of the lexemes fassen and fangen, so that its counterpart in subject formation ultimately becomes a Whiteheadian ‘superject’.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2027732
Fabienne Schopf, Angus Nicholls, Sharon Howe
ABSTRACT The English Goethe Society (EGS) is the third oldest Goethe society in the world. Although it was founded solely as a literary society ‘to promote and extend Goethe’s work and thought’, the appointment of Friedrich Max Müller as the society’s first president suggested that the early founders of the EGS also saw it as playing an important diplomatic role in Anglo-German relations. This article demonstrates that from its founding in 1886 to the beginning of the First World War, the EGS experienced various crises, not least in its relations with other Goethe societies in Britain and with the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar.
英国歌德学会(EGS)是世界上第三古老的歌德学会。虽然它的成立仅仅是作为一个“促进和扩展歌德的作品和思想”的文学社团，但任命弗里德里希·马克斯·梅勒(Friedrich Max m ller)为该社团的第一任主席表明，EGS的早期创始人也认为它在英德关系中发挥着重要的外交作用。本文表明，从1886年成立到第一次世界大战开始，德国歌德学会经历了各种危机，尤其是它与英国其他歌德学会和魏玛歌德协会的关系。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2027736
A. Brendel
ABSTRACT The inaugural Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture of the English Goethe Society was given in January 2021 by the distinguished pianist Alfred Brendel. The text of his talk is given below.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2027735
Stefanie Stockhorst
ABSTRACT Goethe had lifelong unhappy memories of his early riding lessons at the Frankfurt Marstall. Yet not only did he become a passionate rider later, but he also held riding in unusually high esteem as a veritable form of ‘art’. In his literary works, riding serves as a complex symbol of, among other things, a prudent, measured style of government, an analogy that was also drawn in early modern equestrian theory. Above all, however, according to his understanding of art, riding can be located not only in the early modern system of the artes, but also in the contemporary aesthetics of autonomy.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2027734
Ritchie Robertson
ABSTRACT Faust, a cosmic drama with epic qualities, is the great epic of the Enlightenment. It turns on the problem of theodicy or vindicating divine goodness. Does Faust, in view of his crimes, deserve to be saved? In particular, the deaths of Philemon and Baucis, victims of the engineering works carried out in Faust II, Act v, have been condemned by critics, as has Faust’s project of founding a free society. In reply, it is argued that Faust is modelled on Enlightenment despots who engaged in land reclamation, often at human cost, for their subjects’ ultimate betterment. Faust’s ascent to heaven does not imply his exoneration, but initiates a process of purification, for which Goethe was indebted to the theologian Origen mediated via Gottfried Arnold.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-19DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2021.1999610
(2021). Chronicle. Publications of the English Goethe Society: Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 253-253.
(2021)。纪事报》。《英国歌德学会文集》，第90卷第3期，第253-253页。
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