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Goethe
News and Notes, XVII.1 (Spring 1996)
Call for Papers at the 1997 ASECS Meeting in Nashville,
April 8-12
The City of Weimar: Mapping Cultural Studies
This is an interdisciplinary session dedicated to the exploration of
culture in the city of Weimar. Invited are papers on any aspect of life
in Weimar during the long eighteenth century (1680-1840), featuring
any methodological approach. Special consideration will be given to
proposals which do not deal primarily with Weimar's literary production
but focus instead on any of the following fields: anthropology, demographics,
economics, fashion, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, history,
law, medicine, music, painting, philosophy, political science, psychology,
sculpture, urban development and design (architecture, infrastructure,
landscaping), and women's studies. Also welcome are papers which broaden
the scope geographically (e.g. "Weimar in the European context"),
historically (e.g., "Weimar as a paradigm for cultural studies"),
while retaining the Weimar of the long eighteenth century as a point
of reference. Send 1-2 page proposals by August 1 to both:
Burkhard Henke: German Department, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28036.
E-mail: buhenke@davidson.edu. Office tel: (704) 892-2269, FAX: (704)
892-2005.
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Simon Richter: Department of German, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD 20742. E-mail: sr43@umail.umd.edu. Office tel: (301) 405-4101,
FAX: (301) 314-9148.
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GSNA Session at the 1996 German Studies Association Meeting in Seattle,
October 10-13, 1996
Goethe and Philosophy
Scott Abbott, Brigham Young University, Moderator and Commentator:
Goethes symbolische Prägnanz in Ernst Cassirers Philosophie der
symbolischen Formen. Barbara Naumann, FU Berlin
Untimely Recollections of Goethean Time: Nietzsche and the Moment as
"umfassendes Symbol." Nicholas Rennie, Yale University
Eros and the Philosophy of the Mirror: Goethe's Mimetic Desire. Eric
Williams, Texas A&M
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Southern California Meeting of the GSNA, October 26, 1996
Southern California members of the Goethe Society of North America,
with the support of the Clark Library in Los Angeles, are initiating
a one-day conference to be held annually on a selected Saturday in Los
Angeles. The inaugural event will be on Saturday, October 26, 1996,
at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street,
Los Angeles, CA 90018. Ehrhard Bahr, UCLA, and Meredith Lee, University
of California, Irvine are organizing the day.
The 200th anniversary of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre prompts an invitation
to reread the novel and to participate in a lively and focused reappraisal
of the text with GSNA colleagues.
Paper proposals of 1-2 pages for 20 minute papers are invited. In order
to enhance participation by interested colleagues in other fields, preference
will be given presentations in English. Please send proposals by August
1 to Meredith Lee, German Department, University of California, Irvine,
Irvine, CA 92717 (after July 1: 92697).
The design of future Southern California meetings will be discussed
at this inaugural gathering. The plan is to revisit Goethe's writings
and other activities between 1796 and 1800, using the 200th anniversary
as an opportunity for engaged discussion by all participants based on
a rereading of texts and provocative papers. Works to be considered
might include Hermann und Dorothea, the ballads, the sequel to the Zauberflöte,
the Propyläen and other writings on the visual arts, theatrical
activity with and without Schiller; other suggestions are welcome. The
conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 26. The Clark
library will host a reception at the end of the day. Hotel suggestions
are available, both in the Westwood area near UCLA and in Irvine/ Laguna
Beach near UCI. A modest registration fee will be charged to cover lunch
expenses. Please contact Meredith Lee for additional information.
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From the Editor of the Goethe Yearbook
Volume 8 of the Goethe Yearbook is in preparation and should
appear in the fall. It will contain the following articles:
Jane K. Brown: "The Queen of the Night and the Crisis of Allegory
in The Magic Flute"
Ellis Dye: "Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften: Romantic Metafiction"
Kathryn Edmunds: " `der Gesang soll deinen Namen erhalten': Ossian,
Werther and Text of/for Mourning"
Charles A. Grair: "Goethe, Faust and Sardanapalus: The End of an
Age"
Peter Anthony Bloom and Hans Rudolf Vaget: " `Sardanapal!' -- The
French Connection: Unraveling Faust II, 10176"
Liselotte E. Kurth Voigt: "Preexistence and the Plurality of Lives
in the Writings of the Young Schiller"
Helga Madland: "Poetic Transformations and Nineteenth-century Scholarship:
The `Friederikenliteratur'"
Albert Meier: " `Gute Dramen müssen drastisch sein': Zur ästhetischen
Rettung von Friedrich Schlegels Alarcos"
Elizabeth Powers: "From `Empfindungsleben' to `Erfahrungsbereich':
The Creation of Experience in Goethe's Die Laune des Verliebten"
Nicholas Rennie: "Ut Pictura Historia: Goethe's Historical Imagination
and the Augenblick"
Simon Richter: "Sculpture, Music, Text: Winckelmann, Herder and
Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride"
Herbert Rowland: "Chaos and Art in Goethe's Novelle"
Karin Wurst: "Spurensicherung: Elise Bürgers Einakter Die
antike Statue aus Florenz (1814) als Beispiel dramatischer Experimente
an der Jahrhundertwende" along with Elise Bürger, Die antike
Statue aus Florenz
Hans Rudolf Vaget: Review Essay: Albrecht Schöne's Faust: Philologie,
Exegese, Historie"
Erdmann Waniek: Review Essay. Wilhelm Müllers Aktualität
Karl Hugo Pruys:Bericht. " `Du versuchst, o Sonne, vergebens...':
Spurensuche auf dem Jakobsfriedhof zu Weimar"
The volume will also contain nineteen book reviews.
I am now considering submissions for Goethe Yearbook, volume
9, which, if things go true to past form, will probably appear in 1998.
In the meantime Jim Hardin of Camden House, our publisher, has suggested
doing a reprint of the second English edition of Eric Blackall's work
on the emergence of German as a literary language as a special issue
in 1997. As with the two previous Goethe Yearbook special issues,
the GSNA would subsidize the publication and receive copies to distribute
to all paid-up members, while Camden House would handle the sale of
the rest of the printing. We would like to hear whether GSNA members
agree that it would be desirable to make this valuable work available
again.
I would like to start thinking about a special issue for the Goethe-year
1999. I would welcome suggestions or discussion of such an undertaking.
Since there are bound to be a lot of Goethe publications in 1999, there
should be some way to make this one different from all the rest.
Thomas P. Saine
Editor
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In Memoriam
Henry Hatfield
Gisela Kapaun
Kurt Weinberg
Hans S.
Wysling
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Other News and Notes
Recent Publications by Members
Gail K. Hart, Tragedy in Paradise: Family and Gender Politics in
German Bourgeois Tragedy 1750-1850. Columbia, SC: Camden House,
1996.
Gerhart Hoffmeister has edited a collection of essays, A Reassessment
of Weimar Classicism, Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.
Contributors include Frederick Burwick, Dennis Mahoney, Christoph Schweitzer,
Kenneth Weisinger, and Wolfgang Wittkowski.
GSNA Program at SEASECS
Peter Höyng, University of Tennessee, organized and moderated the
GSNA session at the meeting of the Southeastern American Society of
Eighteenth-Century Studies held in Tallahassee, Florida from February
29 through March 2, 1996. Papers were read by Jutta Van Selm, Southern
Methodist University, "Goethe's `Frauenrollen auf dem römischen
Theater durch Männer gespielt' -- Drag or Classical Nationaltheater?";
Andreas Mielke, The University of Georgia, "(Two) Schiller Responses
to Goethe's Dramaturgy"; David John, University of Waterloo, Canada,
"Schiller's Egmont Adaptation: The Actor's Power Over the
Text."
Goethe Power
--from the Sports pages of the New York Times
Forget the vitamin supplements. Ignore the protein shakes. If you want
to build strength and aerobic endurance, eat strawberries. And read
a little German poetry while you're at it, preferably Goethe. That's
what the reborn United States Nordic ski champion, John Bauer, said
were the things he turned to for better racing results.... The ski racer
[who made a four-gold-medal sweep at the U.S. Cross-Country Championships]
took two years off from national and international competition to clear
his head, returning to the University of Minnesota-Duluth to study,
among other German writers, Goethe, his favorite.
[Jim Gould, "Happy Trails for Minnesota Farmer," The New
York Times, January 18, 1996]
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From the Executive Secretary and Newsletter Editor
1999 approaches and the Executive Committee will be meeting to discuss
how the Goethe Society of North America should mark the passing of two
hundred and fifty years since Goethe's birth. Please contact any of
the officers listed at the end of the newsletter with your suggestions.
I would appreciate hearing from members who have used the new database
Goethes Werke auf CD-ROM. The comparatively high cost of the database
($6250) makes informed assessments by members about its flexibility
and value highly desirable. I hope to organize a program at the MLA
(possibly within the GSNA business meeting) and I would also like to
solicit short articles for the newsletter. A free trial has been offered
to selected universities. Contact Mary Jane Liverman of Chadwyck-Healey
for additional information: tel: (800- 752-0515 e-mail: maryjane@chadwyck.com.
Website: http://www.chadwyck.co.uk.
The deadline for the Fall issue of Goethe News and Notes is October
15, 1996. I would like to continue the practice of listing any significant
publications on Goethe by GSNA members, as well as completed dissertations,
and would be grateful to receive such information regularly from you.
Members are encouraged to propose special sessions at regional meetings
of the MLA and ASECS. Contact me for assistance with publicity and mailing
lists.
Meredith Lee
Executive Secretary
NEW ZIP CODE: Effective July 1 the new ZIP code for the German Department
of the University of California, Irvine will be 92697-3150. Please note
the change for all correspondence with the Executive Secretary and the
Yearbook Editor.
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Clearing House for 1999
As we did in 1982, the Goethe Society of North America would like to
serve as a informational clearing house for activities being planned
for the 1999 Goethe year. As you plan events on your campus, please
send full information to the Executive Secretary so that members might
be informed in a timely manner. A central listing also alerts planners
to possible programming conflicts.
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Officers of the Goethe Society of North America
President: Ehrhard Bahr, Department of Germanic Languages, UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA 90095-1539. (310) 825-3955 (o); (310) 825-9754 (fax). E-mail:
bahr@humnet.ucla.edu
Vice-President: Benjamin Bennett, Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures, Cocke Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
22903. (804) 924-6695 (o); (804) 831-2423 (h). E-mail: bkb@virginia.edu
Secretary-Treasurer: Todd Kontje, Department of Literature 0410, University
of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0410. (615) 534-3210 (o);
E-mail: tkontje @ucsd.edu
Director-at-Large: Scott Abbott, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages,
4094 JKHB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. (801) 378-3207
(o); (801) 226-5317 (h); (801) 378-4649 (fax). E-mail: scott_abbott@byu.edu
Director-at-Large: Irmgard Wagner, Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030. (703) 993-1220/
1221 (o); (703) 993-1245 (fax). E-mail: iwagner@gmu.edu
Editor of the Yearbook: Thomas P. Saine, Department of German, University
of California, Irvine, CA 92717; after July 1: 92697-3150. (949) 824-6406
(o); E- mail: tpsaine@uci.edu.
Executive Secretary: Meredith Lee, German Department, University of
California, Irvine, CA 92717; after July 1: 92697-3150. (949) 824-6406
(o); (949) 836-7970 (h); E-mail: malee@uci.edu.
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