2019 GSA Panels

Sessions 019, 151, 295. Goethe as a Heterodox Thinker (Closed Seminar)Fri, Sat, Sun 8:00–10:00 AM Northwest

Conveners

  1. Clark Muenzer, University of Pittsburgh

  2. Karin Schutjer, University of Oklahoma

  3. John Smith, University of California, Irvine

ATTENDEES

  • Claire BaldwinColgate University

  • Jane BrownUniversity of Washington

  • Daniel CarranzaUniversity of Chicago

  • Jonathan FineBrown University

  • Sally GrayMississippi State University

  • Heidi GrekWashington University in St. Louis

  • Joseph HaydtUniversity of Chicago

  • Horst LangeUniversity of Central Arkansas

  • Steven LydonHarvard University

  • John McCarthyVanderbilt University

  • Sebastian MeixnerUniversität Zürich

  • Heidi SchlipphackeUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

  • Ross ShieldsLeibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung

  • Xuxu SongUniversity of California Irvine

  • Jason YonoverJohns Hopkins University

Session 104: Realism in the Age of Goethe and Its Legacy (I): Genres of RealismFriday 2:00-4:00 p.m. Skyline 3

Moderator: Jennifer Jenkins, Pacific Lutheran University

Commentator: Karin Schutjer, University of Oklahoma

  1. Lyric Realism? Poetic Phenomenology between Klopstock and ColeridgeJan Oliver Jost-Fritz, Eastern Tennessee State University

  2. (Mis-)Interpreting Goethe’s Lilie in “Das Märchen”Prisilla Sanchez, University of Oregon

  3. Erzähltes Leben und gestimmte Erinnerung Zum Realismus in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre und seiner Bedeutung für die Tradition des BildungsromansStefan Hajduk, University of Adelaide

  4. “Zuckungen” and “Gefühlsader”: The Desire and Impossibility of Literary Realism in Georg Büchner’s Lenz – Matthew Childs, University of Washington 

Session 131: Realism in the Age of Goethe and Its Legacy (2): The Realism of Classicism, Romanticism, and ModernismFri 4:15-6:00 p.m. Skyline 3

Moderator: Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College

Commentator: John Lyon, University of Pittsburgh

  1. Out of Ruin: Ideal Realism in Winckelmann, Goethe, and Modernism– Christian Weber, Florida State University

  2. Goethe’s Dramatic Theory of Revelation (die Schöne Seele) – Benjamin Swakopf, Indiana University

  3. Between Sais and Sense: Novalis’ Response to Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre (1794)– David Takamura, University of North Carolina and Duke University

  4. Stifter and the Avant-Garde: Affect and Materiality in KalksteinRobert Mottram, Oakland University

Session 238: Realism in the Age of Goethe and Its Legacy (3): Realism Challenged by War and RevolutionSat 2:00-4:00 p.m. Skyline 3

Moderator: Alina Dana Weber, Florida State University

Commentator: Joseph O’Neil, University of Kentucky

  1. The Reality of Battle: Realism in the Context of Goethe’s War Experience– Christine Lehleiter, University of Toronto

  2. “Gänzlich alle Unterhaltung über das Interesse des Tages verbannen”: Goethe’s “Unterhaltungen” and the Realist Novella – Marie-Luise Goldmann, New York University

  3. The Censored Present: Young Germany’s Realism – Michael Swellander, University of Iowa

Session 062: Karl Philipp Moritz’s Interdisciplinary StanceFri 10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Executive

Moderator: Sarah Eldridge, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Commentator: Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College

  1. Principles and Practice of Harmony and Balance: Objectivity/Subjectivity, Creation/Destruction, Health/Illness, and Beauty/Desolation in K.P. Moritz’s Aesthetic, Literary, Educative, and Therapeutic Worlds– Sheila Dickson, University of Glasgow

  2. Karl Philip Moritz als Datenwissenschaftler und Wissenschaftstheoretiker – Robert Roessler, Harvard University

  3. The Ethics of Imperfection and the Limits of Autonomy in Karl Philipp Moritz’s Writings on Aesthetics – Mattias Pirholt, Södertörn University

  4. Novalis und Karl Philipp Moritz: Eine erfahrungsseelenkundliche und mythologische Spurensuche – Franziska Schlieker, Technische Universität Braunschweig