Simon Richter 
Goethe Yearbook 12 

Volume 12 is dedicated to founding editor Thomas P. Saine, and includes essays on Goethe’s novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark, Bach, Ossian, Goethe reception, and Schiller.


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. The book review section seeks likewise to evaluate a wide selection ofrecent publications on the period, and is important for all scholars of 18th-century literature. Volume 12 honors founding editor Thomas P. Saine with contributions from prominent scholars such as Ehrhard Bahr, Benjamin Bennett, Dieter Borchmeyer, Jane Brown, Jill Kowalik, Ruth Kluger, Meredith Lee, John Mc Carthy, Jeff Sammons, Helmut Schneider, Hans Vaget, and more. The volume includes essays on Goethe’s novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark, Bach, Ossian, Goethe reception, and Schiller.

Simon J. Richter is associate professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is associate professor of German at the University of Utah.

Table of Content

Ossian-Rezeption von Michael Denis bis Goethe: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Primitivismus in Deutschland – Dr Edward R Bahr

Werther, the Undead – Hans Rudolf Vaget

Who Is the Editor in Goethe’s
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers? – Christoph E Schweitzer

Substitution, Self-blame, and Self-deception in Goethe’s
Stella: Ein Schauspiel für Liebende – Ellis Dye – DECEASED IN 2017

‘Myth and Psychology’: The Curing of Orest in Goethe’s
Iphigenie auf Tauris – Cyrus Hamlin

Poetic Intentions and Musical Production: ‘Die erste Walpurgisnacht’ – Meredith Lee

Dichter, Herrscher, Natur: Die Entstehung des Ilmparks und das Bild des Parks in Goethes Dichtung – Helmut J. Schneider

Goethe, Rousseau, the Novel, and the Origins of Pyschoanalysis – Jane K. Brown

Trauma and Memory in the
Wahlverwandtschaften – Jill Kowalik

Ein anderes Gretchen-Abenteuer: Das Ende der rhetorischen Poesiekonzention und das fünfte Buch von Goethes
Dichtung und Wahrheit
Dichtung und Wahrheit – Uwe-K. Ketelsen

Speech, Writing, and Identity in the
West-Östlicher Divan – Benjamin K. Bennett

Die Pforte entriegeln: Goethe’s ‘Urworte Orpheus’ – Ruth Kluger

‘Laß mich hören, laß mich fühlen’: Johann Sebastian Bach im Urteil Goethes – Dieter Borchmeyer

Schiller the Killer:
Wilhelm Tell and the Decriminalization of Murder – Gail K. Hart

Schiller als Historiograph: Disciplining History – John A. Mc Carthy

‘Heiliger Goethe, bitt’ für mich’: Friedrich Spielhagen and the Anxiety of Influence – Jeffery L. Sammons

Goethes kleiner Vetter: Erinnerung an den Frankfurter Abenteurer Johann Konrad Friedrich – Hans-Wolf Jaeger

About the author

JOHN A. MCCARTHY is Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.