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2015 GSA Panels

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Special GSNA Sessions at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies AssociationWashington, DC, October 1-4, 2015

Goethe’s Integration of Art and Science

Moderator: Clark Muenzer, University of PittsburghCommentator: Frederick Amrine, University of Michigan

  1. “Goethe’s Epistemology of Love,” Arthur Zajonc, Amherst College
  2. “Organicist Aspects of Schenkerian Thought,” Jeff Swinkin, University of Oklahoma
  3. “Spiel der Phantasie: Trauer, Tanz und Therapie in Goethes Lila,” Ferdinand Bubacz, New York University

 

Science, Nature, and Art: From the Age of Goethe to the Present

Seminar Conveners:Frederick Amrine, John Smith, and Astrida Orle TantilloSeminar Participants:

  1. Yvonne Al-Taie, Kiel University
  2. Jeffrey Champlin, Bard College at Alquds University
  3. Daniel DiMassa, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  4. Sally Hatch Gray, Mississippi State University
  5. Martha Helfer, Rutgers University
  6. Jennifer Hoyer, University of Arkansas
  7. Samuel Kessler, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  8. Rita Krueger, Temple University
  9. Alice Kuzniar, University of Waterloo
  10. Marcus Lampert, University of Chicago
  11. Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge
  12. Seth Elliott Meyer, University of California, Berkeley
  13. Elizabeth Millan, DePaul University
  14. Howard Pollack-Milgate, DePauw University
  15. Sebastian Rand, Georgia State University
  16. Michael Saman, College of the Holy Cross
  17. Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College
  18. Alexis Smith, University of Oregon
  19. Gabriel Trop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  20. Johannes Wankhammer, Cornell University

 

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2016 MLA Panels

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Special GSNA Sessions at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language AssociationAustin, TX, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Goethe and Cognitive Science, Cognition and Goethe

Presiding: Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge, Murray Edwards College

  1. “The Sunlike Eye: Historicizing Cognition in Goethe and Uexküll,” Joseph D. O’Neil, University of Kentucky
  2. “Discovering the Urpflanze: Depictions of Empirical Observation in Goethe’s Botanical Writings,” Yevgenya Strakovsky, Stanford University
  3. “Cognitive Problems in Faust,” Christian Peter Weber, Florida State University
  4. “Ottilie’s Learning Disability and the Uncanny Saintliness of Deficient Social Cognition in Die Wahlverwandtschaften,” Donald R. Wehrs, Auburn University, Auburn

 

Cognitive Science in the Goethezeit

Presiding: John H. Smith, University of California, Irvine

  1. “Goethe and Schiller as Pioneers of Embodied Cognition,” Frederick Amrine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  2. “Phantasy and Cognition: Johannes Müller Reading Goethe,” Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University
  3. “‘Des bildenden Geists werdender Werkstatt’: Hölderlin and the Plasticity of Poetry,” Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge, Murray Edwards College

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Narratologist

Cooperative panel arranged by the International Society for the Study of Narrative and the Goethe Society of North AmericaPresiding: Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College

  1. “Goethe, the Novel, and the ‘Secret Quest for Meaning,’” Karin Anneliese Wurst, Michigan State University
  2. “Narrative Solipsism in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers,” Christopher Chiasson, Indiana University, Bloomington
  3. “A School of Fiction or the Limits of Narrative: Goethe’s Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten,” Sebastian Meixner, University of Tübingen

 

Goethe Yearbook 22 (2015)

Articles:

Special Section on Goethe and Environmentalism edited by Dalia Nassar and Luke Fischer

  1. Luke Fisher and Dalia Nassar, “Introduction: Goethe and Environmentalism.” 3-22.
  2. Kate Rigby, “Art, Nature, and the Poesy of Plants in the Goethezeit: A Biosemiotic Perspective.” 23-44.
  3. Frederick Amrine, “The Music of the Organism: Uexküll, Merleau-Ponty, Zuckerkandl, and Deleuze as Goethean Ecologists in Search of a New Paradigm.” 45-72.
  4. Ryan Feigenbaum, “Toward a Nonanthropocentric Vision of Nature: Goethe’s Discovery of the Intermaxillary Bone.” 73-94.
  5. Jason Groves, “Goethe’s Petrofiction: Reading the Wanderjahre in the Anthropocene.” 95-114.
  6. Heather I. Sullivan, “Nature and the ‘Dark Pastoral’ in Goethe’s Werther.” 115-132.
  7. Gernot Böhme, “Goethe und die moderne Zivilisation.” 133-142.____________________________________
  8. Iris Hennigfeld, “Goethe’s Phenomenological Way of Thinking and the Urphänomen.” 143-168.
  9. Stephanie M. Hilger, “Orientation and Supplementation: Locating the ‘Hermaphrodite’ in the Encyclopédie.” 169-188.
  10. David Hill, “Claudine von Villa Bella and the Publication of ‘Nähe des Geliebten.’ 189-202.
  11. Daniel Purdy, “West-östliche Divan and the ‘Abduction/Seduction of Europe’: World Literature and the Circulation of Culture.” 203-226.Helmut J. Schneider, Kunstsammlung und Kunstgeselligkeit: Zu Goethes Sammlungs- und Museumskonzeption zwischen 1798 und 1817.” 227-246.
  12. Inge Stephan, “‘Er hatte einen entschiedenen Hang zur Intrige’: Überlegungen zu J. M. R. Lenz, seiner Rezeption und seinen Werken.” 247-260.
Review Essay:
  1. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Amtliche Schriften. Teil I, Geheimes Consilium und andere bis zur Italienreise unternommene Aufgabengebiete. Ed. Reinhard Kluge. Frankfurt/Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1998. 917 pp., 9 ill. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Sämtliche Werke: Briefe, Tagebücher und Gespräche. Ed. Friedmar Apel et al. Frankfurter Ausgabe 26.) Teil II, Aufgabengebiete seit der Rückkehr aus Italien. Ed. Irmtraut und Gerhard Schmid. FA 27. Frankfurt/Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1999. 1238 pp., 15 ill. Kommentar zu den Amtlichen Schriften. Vol. 1. Ed. Reinhard Kluge. FA 26K. Berlin: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2011. 667 pp., 11 ill. Kommentar zu den Amtlichen Schriften. Vol. 2. Ed. Gerhard und Irmtraut Schmid. FA 27K. Berlin: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2011. 1425 pp., 9 ill. Register und Verzeichnisse. Ed. Reinhard Kluge, Gerhard Schmid, and Irmtraut Schmid. FA 26/27R (CD-ROM). Berlin: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2011. 355 pp. (W. Daniel Wilson). 261-268.
Book Reviews:
  1. Manfred Wenzel, ed., Goethe Handbuch. Supplemente 2, Naturwissenschaften. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2012. 851 pp. (Astrida Orle Tantillo). 269.
  2. Heinz Haertl, Hrsg., Die Wahlverwandtschaften: Eine Dokumentation der Wirkung von Goethes Roman, 1808–1832. Reprint der Erstausgabe mit neuen Funden als Anhang und mit Vorwort von Jochen Golz. Schriften der Goethe-Gesellschaft, Bd. 76, hrsg. von Jochen Golz. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013. 563 S., 17 Abbildungen. (Ehrhard Bahr). 270.
  3. Katharina Mommsen, Goethe und der Alte Fritz. Leipzig: Lehmstedt, 2012. 231 S. (Walter Tschacher). 271.
  4. Christian P. Weber, Die Logik der Lyrik: Goethes Phänomenologie des Geistes in Gedichten. Teil 1, Die Genese des Genies. Freiburg i.Br.: Rombach, 2013. 486 pp. (Martin Baeumel). 273.
  5. Carsten Rohde and Thorsten Valk, eds., Goethes Liebeslyrik: Semantiken der Leidenschaft um 1800. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. 404 pp. (Christian P. Weber). 275.
  6. Gabrielle Bersier, Wege des Heilens: Goethes physiologische Autobiographie Dichtung und Wahrheit. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2014. 253 pp. (James F. Howell). 279.
  7. Daniel Wilson, Goethe Männer Knaben: Ansichten zur “Homosexualität.” Trans. Angela Steidele. Berlin: Insel, 2012. 503 pp., 41 ills. (Robert D. Tobin). 280.
  8. Pamela Currie, Goethe’s Visual World. Germanic Literatures 3. London: Legenda, 2013. 166 pp. (Walter K. Stewart). 284.
  9. Michael Mandelartz, Goethe, Kleist: Literatur, Politik und Wissenschaft um 1800. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2011. 465 pp. (Gabrielle Bersier). 286.
  10. Mattias Pirholt, Metamimesis: Imitation in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German Romanticism. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012. 220 pp. (John B. Lyon). 287.
  11. Jo Tudor, Sound and Sense: Music and Musical Metaphor in the Thought and Writing of Goethe and His Age. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011. xvi + 515 pp. (Lorraine Byrne Bodley). 289.
  12. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson, eds., Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. 269 pp. (Christopher R. Clason). 291.
  13. Simon Richter and Richard Block, eds., Goethe’s Ghosts: Reading and the Persistence of Literature. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. 315 pp., 7 ills. (Lauren J. Brooks). 294.
  14. Eckart Goebel, Beyond Discontent: “Sublimation” from Goethe to Lacan. Trans. James C. Wagner. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2013. xiv + 259 pp. (Thomas L. Cooksey). 296.
  15. Eric Achermann, ed., Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766): Philosophie, Poetik und Wissenschaft. Werkprofile: Philosophen und Literaten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2014. 467 pp. (Seth Berk). 298.
  16. Steven D. Martinson, Projects of Enlightenment: The Work of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Cultural, Intercultural, and Transcultural Perspectives. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2013. 286 pp. (Jonathan Blake Fine). 299.
  17. Lisa Marie Anderson, ed., Hamann and the Tradition. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2012. xiii + 211 pp. (Elizabeth Powers). 301.
  18. Kenneth S. Calhoon, Affecting Grace: Theater, Subject, and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2013. xii + 269 pp., 12 ills. (Jocelyne Kolb). 304.
  19. Elliott Schreiber, The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy. Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2012. 179 pp. (Cord-Friedrich Berghahn). 306.
  20. Vicki A. Spencer, Herder’s Political Thought: A Study of Language, Culture, and Community. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2012. xi + 354 pp. (Rachel Zuckert). 310.
  21. Hans Adler and Lynn L. Wolff, eds., Aisthesis und Noesis: Zwei Erkenntisformen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Munich: Wilhelm Finck, 2013. 202 S. (Beate Allert). 311.
  22. Dalia Nassar, The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795–1804. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 360 pp. (Gabriel Trop). 313.
  23. Peter Goßens, Weltliteratur: Modelle transnationaler Literaturwahrnehmung im 19. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2011. xiii + 457 pp. (Elizabeth Powers). 316.
  24. John Walker, ed., The Present Word: Culture, Society and the Site of Literature; Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle. London: Legenda, for Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2013. xii + 204 pp. (Arnd Bohm). 318.