Overview
Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on environmentalism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 22 features a special section on environmentalism, edited by Dalia Nassar and Luke Fischer, with contributions on: the metaphor of music in Goethe's scientific work and its influence on Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, Uexkull, and Zuckerkandl (Frederick Amrine); his conceptualization of modern civilization in Faust (Gernot Boehme); a non-anthropocentricvision of nature in his writings on the intermaxillary bone (Ryan Feigenbaum); his geopoetics of granite (Jason Groves); the historical antecedents of biosemiotics in ""Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen"" (Kate Rigby); and the conceptof the ""Dark Pastoral"" in Werther (Heather I. Sullivan). In addition, there are articles on Goethe as a spiritual predecessor of phenomenology (Iris Hennigfeld); concepts of the ""hermaphrodite"" in contributions to theEncyclopedie by Louis de Jaucourt and Albrecht von Haller (Stephanie Hilger); on Goethe's poem ""Nahe des Geliebten"" (David Hill); on the link between commerce and culture in West-oestlicher Divan (Daniel Purdy); on Goethe's thoughts on collecting and museums (Helmut Schneider); and on intrigues in the works of J. M. R. Lenz (Inge Stephan). Contributors: Frederick Amrine, Gernot Boehme, Ryan Feigenbaum, Luke Fischer, Jason Groves, Iris Hennigfeld, Stephanie M. Hilger, David Hill, Dalia Nassar, Daniel Purdy, Kate Rigby, Helmut J. Schneider, Inge Stephan, Heather I. Sullivan. Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Elisabeth Krimmeris Professor of German at the University of California Davis. Book review editor Birgit Tautz is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.
Full Product Details
Author: Adrian Daub (Contributor) ,
Elisabeth Krimmer (Series Editor)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: Camden House Inc
Volume: v. 22
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.638kg
ISBN: 9781571139276
ISBN 10: 1571139273
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 01 July 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
