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

From the Executive Secretary

The 2019 German Studies Association conference in Portland, Oregon, will have a particularly sizable GSNA presence. The Society is sponsoring a seminar on “Goethe as a Heterodox Thinker,” a three-part panel on “Realism in the Age of Goethe and Its Legacy,” as well as a panel on “Karl Philipp Moritz’s Interdisciplinary Stance.” My thanks once again to the organizers of these fabulous sessions: Clark Muenzer, Karin Schutjer, John Smith, Jan O. Jost-Fritz, Christian Weber, and Mattias Pirholt.

In addition, thanks to Karin Schutjer’s leadership, the Goethe Society will also have a robust presence in the exhibition hall with a table featuring information on the Yearbook, the book series, the lexicon project, and more. Please be sure to stop by!Finally, please join us for the Goethe Society’s cash bar on Saturday, October 5, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in Galleria I, followed by the business meeting 7:30-8:30 p.m. in Galleria II.

I welcome all proposals for GSNA-sponsored panels and seminars for the 2020 German Studies Association Conference. Please send me an abstract by November 15, 2019 (my e-mail address is elschreiber@vassar.edu). The deadline for proposals for the 2021 Modern Language Association Convention is December 1, 2019, and March 15, 2020, for the 2021 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Convention. I look forward to your proposals, and to seeing you in Portland!

Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College

From the Yearbook Editors

Volume 27 of the Goethe Yearbook introduces an array of formats to pursue research on Goethe, his age, and his contemporaries; and to encourage new modes of collaboration. A range of articles by established and emerging authors contributes to the rich and growing archive of scholarship on German eighteenth-century studies, with focal points on Goethe, Karl Philipp Moritz, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen.

In addition, several articles reconsider topics such as Goethe’s personal library and cultural heritage, Goethean anthropology, and the intellectual hub of Weimar. This volume launches the first Forum, a section comprised of invited contributions on an important topic of debate in the profession. For the debut, we asked colleagues engaged in Digital Humanities research to consider the canon in comparison to “the great unread” (Margaret Cohen): a vast expanse of non-canonical texts.

We are also pleased to publish a newly discovered text by August von Kotzebue, with an introduction and annotated transcription by a widely respected historian. Finally, we draw attention to robust, ongoing scholarship that will be one of the projects championed by the Goethe Society for years to come. We are delighted to include two sample entries from the prodigious work in progress, the Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts, edited by Clark Muenzer and John H. Smith. Bryan Klausmeyer serves as digital editor. The customary book review section rounds out the volume. We have begun receiving submissions for volume 28 and invite colleagues to share ideas about potential Forum topics and special sections.

Note that the Goethe Yearbook is a double-blind, peer-reviewed publication, widely indexed, and published with DOIs. All manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word, and in accordance with the Yearbook’s style sheet and anonymized for review. Manuscript submissions should be no longer than 8,500 words.

Patricia Anne Simpson, University of Nebraska

Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College

From the Editor of the Book Series

We are thrilled to announce that our first edited volume of essays is scheduled to appear in July of 2020.

Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800, edited by Edgar Landgraf and Elliott Schreiber

“We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter what age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background—we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped in this pivotal period (approximately 1770-1830). The eleven chapters in this book illuminate critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, politics, and poetics of play as evident in the work of major authors of the period including Lessing, Goethe, Kant, Schiller, Pestalozzi, Jacobi, Tieck, Jean Paul, Schleiermacher, and Fröbel. While drawing on more recent theories of play by thinkers such as Jean Piaget, Donald Winnicott, Jost Trier, Gregory Bateson, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Henricks, and Patrick Jagoda, the volume shows the debates around play in the decades in German letters around 1800 to be far richer and more complex than previously thought, as well as more relevant for our current engagement with play. For it is here that the parameters are set that continue to guide our debates about what are good rather than bad games, or what constitutes good rather than bad practices of play.”

Also, don’t forget that GSNA members receive a 40% discount plus free shipping on our two most recent titles (or in fact any book distributed by Rutgers UP):

• Ellwood Wiggins, Odysseys of Recognition: Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe and Kleist

• Seán Williams, Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy

At rutgersuniversitypress.org, look for the tiny red shopping-cart icon next to the title, and enter the code “BUPSociety” at check-out!Are you working on a monograph or an edited volume? As always, we’d love to hear from you. Direct inquiries to the series editor, Karin Schutjer, at kschutjer@ou.edu.

Karin Schutjer, University of Oklahoma

From the Secretary-Treasurer

We recently updated our PayPal account, so now when you pay your 2019 membership dues online there are no extra fees. Simply go to goethesociety.org/membership and use the drop-down menu to select a membership category. Then click the Buy Now button. You do not need a PayPal account. You may use the secure PayPal Guest Checkout and enter your credit card information there.

If you would like your Goethe Yearbook shipped to an address other than the one used for PayPal, simply send me an email: wcarter@iastate.edu Also, should you have a change of address in the future, please do let me know.Of course, we still accept checks, payable to “Goethe Society of North America.” They can be mailed to William Carter, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Iowa State University, 3102 Pearson Hall, Ames, IA 50011.

Finally, please consider donating to the Goethe Society of North America through the Donate button on the membership page, by check, or with your favorite cryptocurrency.

William Carter, Iowa State University