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Virgilian Retrospection in Goethe’s Alexis und Dora

© 2008, Boydell and Brewer

© 2008, Boydell and Brewer

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Goethe’s Reception of Ulrich von Hutten 1
  4. The School of Shipwrecks: Improvisation in Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung and the Lehrjahre 19
  5. The Sublime,“Über den Granit,” and the Prehistory of Goethe’s Science 35
  6. The Building in Bildung: Goethe, Palladio, and the Architectural Media 57
  7. Virgilian Retrospection in Goethe’s Alexis und Dora 75
  8. Typologies of Repetition, Reflection, and Recurrence: Interpreting the Novella in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften 99
  9. Why Did Goethe Marry When He Did? 115
  10. Zum Verhältnis von Selbstsein und Miteinandersein in Goethes Urworte. Orphisch 131
  11. Schiller’s Die Räuber: Revenge, Sacrifice, and the Terrible Price of Absolute Freedom 161
  12. Wallensteins Tod as a “Play of Mourning”: Death and Mourning in the Aesthetics of Schiller’s Classicism 171
  13. The New Man:Theories of Masculinity around 1800 187
  14. Book Reviews
  15. John Armstrong, Love, Life, Goethe: Lessons of the Imagination from the Great German Poet. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. xv + 483 pp. 217
  16. Richard Block, The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe. Detroit:Wayne State UP, 2006. 310 pp. 219
  17. W. Daniel Wilson, ed., Goethes Weimar und die Französische Revolution: Dokumente der Krisenjahre. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2004. 746 pp. 220
  18. Hartmut Fröschle, Goethes Verhältnis zur Romantik. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2002. 564 pp. 222
  19. Gabriele Blod, “Lebensmärchen”: Goethes Dichtung und Wahrheit als poetischer und poetologischer Text. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2003. 335 pp. 223
  20. Nicholas Rennie, Speculating on the Moment: The Poetics of Time and Recurrence in Goethe, Leopardi, and Nietzsche. Göttingen:Wallstein Verlag, 2005. 359 pp. 225
  21. Florian Krobb, Die Wallenstein-Trilogie von Friedrich Schiller: Walter Buttler in Geschichte und Drama. Reihe Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft, Bd. 99. Oldenburg: Igel Verlag Literatur, 2005. 122 pp. 227
  22. Simon Richter, Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy and the Body in the German Enlightenment. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2006. 353 pp. 228
  23. John Pizer,The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2006. 190 pp. 229
  24. Maike Oergel, Culture and Identity: Historicity in German Literature and Thought 1770–1815. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2006. viii + 297 pp. 231
  25. Geoffrey Atherton, The Decline and Fall of Virgil in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Repressed Muse. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006. xx + 312 pp. 233
  26. Johannes Birgfeld and Claude D. Conter, eds., Das Unterhaltungsstück um 1800: Literaturhistorische Konfigurationen—Signaturen der Moderne (= Forum für deutschsprachiges Drama und Theater in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 1). Hannover:Wehrhahn Verlag, 2007. xxiv + 271 pp. 234
  27. Gudrun Loster-Schneider and Gaby Pailer, eds., Lexikon deutschsprachiger Epik und Dramatik von Autorinnen (1730–1900). Tübingen and Basel: A. Francke, 2006. xii + 492 pp., with CD-ROM. 236
  28. Paul Fleming, The Pleasures of Abandonment: Jean Paul and the Life of Humor. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2006. 170 pp. 238
  29. John B. Lyon, Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2006. 280 pp. 240
  30. Roger F.Cook,ed.,A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002. xiv + 373 pp. 241
Goethe Yearbook 15
This chapter is in the book Goethe Yearbook 15
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781571137401-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Goethe’s Reception of Ulrich von Hutten 1
  4. The School of Shipwrecks: Improvisation in Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung and the Lehrjahre 19
  5. The Sublime,“Über den Granit,” and the Prehistory of Goethe’s Science 35
  6. The Building in Bildung: Goethe, Palladio, and the Architectural Media 57
  7. Virgilian Retrospection in Goethe’s Alexis und Dora 75
  8. Typologies of Repetition, Reflection, and Recurrence: Interpreting the Novella in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften 99
  9. Why Did Goethe Marry When He Did? 115
  10. Zum Verhältnis von Selbstsein und Miteinandersein in Goethes Urworte. Orphisch 131
  11. Schiller’s Die Räuber: Revenge, Sacrifice, and the Terrible Price of Absolute Freedom 161
  12. Wallensteins Tod as a “Play of Mourning”: Death and Mourning in the Aesthetics of Schiller’s Classicism 171
  13. The New Man:Theories of Masculinity around 1800 187
  14. Book Reviews
  15. John Armstrong, Love, Life, Goethe: Lessons of the Imagination from the Great German Poet. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. xv + 483 pp. 217
  16. Richard Block, The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe. Detroit:Wayne State UP, 2006. 310 pp. 219
  17. W. Daniel Wilson, ed., Goethes Weimar und die Französische Revolution: Dokumente der Krisenjahre. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2004. 746 pp. 220
  18. Hartmut Fröschle, Goethes Verhältnis zur Romantik. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2002. 564 pp. 222
  19. Gabriele Blod, “Lebensmärchen”: Goethes Dichtung und Wahrheit als poetischer und poetologischer Text. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2003. 335 pp. 223
  20. Nicholas Rennie, Speculating on the Moment: The Poetics of Time and Recurrence in Goethe, Leopardi, and Nietzsche. Göttingen:Wallstein Verlag, 2005. 359 pp. 225
  21. Florian Krobb, Die Wallenstein-Trilogie von Friedrich Schiller: Walter Buttler in Geschichte und Drama. Reihe Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft, Bd. 99. Oldenburg: Igel Verlag Literatur, 2005. 122 pp. 227
  22. Simon Richter, Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy and the Body in the German Enlightenment. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2006. 353 pp. 228
  23. John Pizer,The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2006. 190 pp. 229
  24. Maike Oergel, Culture and Identity: Historicity in German Literature and Thought 1770–1815. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2006. viii + 297 pp. 231
  25. Geoffrey Atherton, The Decline and Fall of Virgil in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Repressed Muse. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006. xx + 312 pp. 233
  26. Johannes Birgfeld and Claude D. Conter, eds., Das Unterhaltungsstück um 1800: Literaturhistorische Konfigurationen—Signaturen der Moderne (= Forum für deutschsprachiges Drama und Theater in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 1). Hannover:Wehrhahn Verlag, 2007. xxiv + 271 pp. 234
  27. Gudrun Loster-Schneider and Gaby Pailer, eds., Lexikon deutschsprachiger Epik und Dramatik von Autorinnen (1730–1900). Tübingen and Basel: A. Francke, 2006. xii + 492 pp., with CD-ROM. 236
  28. Paul Fleming, The Pleasures of Abandonment: Jean Paul and the Life of Humor. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2006. 170 pp. 238
  29. John B. Lyon, Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2006. 280 pp. 240
  30. Roger F.Cook,ed.,A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002. xiv + 373 pp. 241
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