Special GSNA Sessions at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies AssociationSan Diego, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2016
Organized by Edgar Landgraf and Elliott Schreiber
Goethe at Play: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play in the Goethezeit (1)
Moderator: Elliott Schreiber (Vassar)Commentator: Edgar Landgraf (Bowling Green)
- Ian McNeely (U of Oregon), “Kant for Kindergarteners: The Pedagogy of Play during the German Educational Revolution”
- Christiane Frey (NYU), “The Games of the Rule: Knowing and Playing 1799/1800”
- Nicholas Rennie (Rutgers), “Play with Memory: Faust”
Goethe at Play: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play in the Goethezeit (2)
Moderator: Nicholas Rennie (Rutgers)Commentator: Nicole Calian (U of Washington)
- Patricia Simpson (U of Montana), “Playthings: Goethe’s Favorite Toys”
- Elliott Schreiber (Bowling Green), “Literary Fairytales and Imaginative Play (Goethe, Tieck, Andersen)”
- Michael Powers (Tufts), “Play, or the First Poetry”
- Christian Weber (Florida State), “Erotic Play in Poetry: Uz, Klopstock, Goethe”
Goethe at Play: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play in the Goethezeit (3)
Moderator: Michael Powers (Tufts)Commentator: Christian Weber (Florida State)
- Sam Heidepriem (U of Michigan), “Free Play in Kant, Schiller, and Poststructuralism”
- Christoph Rauen (U Kiel), “Das Spiel als Modell autonomer Kunst um 1800 (Nicolai, Musäus, Schiller, Goethe)”
- David Martyn (Macalester), “Authorship as Play: Schleiermacher’s Translingual Poetics”