Daniel Purdy 
Goethe Yearbook 16 

Groundbreaking essays highlighting Goethe’s relevance to contemporary theoretical debates and Goethe criticism of recent decades.


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.


Goethe Yearbook 16 presents innovative interpretations by young scholars of Goethe’s most prominent works. A special section on 20th-century theory, co-edited by Angus Nicholls, demonstrates the poet’s importance within areas of contemporary debate such as postcolonial criticism and Heideggerian phenomenology. The volume includes Judith Ryan’s 2007 Presidential Address to the Goethe Society on the aphorisms in
Die Wahlverwandtschaften and the
Wanderjahre, as well as essays on aspects of
Hermann und Dorothea, Iphigenie, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, and
Prometheus. Readers will also find a surprising interpretation of Schiller on subjectivity and military strategy, and a feminist archival history of the Hamburg actress Charlotte Ackermann.


Contributors: Volker C. Dörr, Mary Helen Dupree, Ellis Dye, Bernd Hamacher, Katrin Kohl, Michael Mandelartz, Jan Mieszkowski, Angus Nicholls, Charlton Payne, Mattias Pirholt, Myriam Richter, Judith Ryan, and Christian Weber.


Daniel Purdy is Associate Professor of German at Pennsylvania State University. Book review editor Catriona Mac Leod is Associate Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tabella dei contenuti

‘Pfeile mit Widerhaken’: On the Aphorisms in Goethe’s
Wahlverwandtschaften and
Wanderjahre – Judith Ryan

Epic World Citizenship in Goethe’s
Hermann und Dorothea – Charlton Payne

The Pace of the Attack: Military Experience in Schiller’s
Wallenstein and
Die Jungfrau von Orleans – Jan Mieszkowski

Die ‘reine Seele’ und die Politik: Partikularität und Universalität in Goethes
Iphigenie – Michael Mandelartz

A Symbolic-Mystic Monstrosity:Ideology and Representation in Goethe’s
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre – Mattias Pirholt

Goethes ‘Prometheus’: Kritik der poetischen Einbildungskraft – Christian P. Weber

‘Ein Geschöpf der Einbildung unseres Herrn Leßing’: Fictions of Acting and Virtue in the Postmortem Reception of Charlotte Ackermann (1757-1775) – Mary Helen Dupree

Goethe and Twentieth-Century Theory: A Modest Introduction – Angus Nicholls

No Escape? Goethe’s Strategies of Self-Projection and their Role in German Literary Historiography – Katrin Kohl

Biographismus und Anti-Biographismus in philosophischen Goethe-Deutungen des 20. Jahrhunderts – Bernd Hamacher

Biographismus und Anti-Biographismus in philosophischen Goethe-Deutungen des 20. Jahrhunderts – Myriam Richter

Sorge in Heidegger and in Goethe’s
Faust – Ellis Dye – DECEASED IN 2017

Orient und Okzident: Der
West-östliche Divan als postkoloniales Paradigma – Volker Dorr