Unwrapping Goethe`s Weimar - Essays in Cultural Studies and Local Knowledge

A comprehensive reconsideration of the myth of Goethe's Weimar, occasioned by the 1999 celebrations of Goethe's 250th birthday.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: like a box of chocolates..., Simon Richter. Part 1 Selling Weimar by the kilo: Goethe, advertising, marketing, and merchandising the classical, Burkhard Henke; Weimar classicism and the origins of consumer culture, Daniel Purdy. Part 2 Weimar and the senses: floating heads - Weimar portrait busts, Catriona MacLeod; music in Weimar circa 1780 - decentering text, decentering Goethe, annie Janeiro Randall. Part 3 Performativity and transgression in Weimar: war and dramaturgy - Goethe's command of the Weimar theatre, Karin Schutjer; from Werther to Amazons - cross-dressing and male-male desire, Susan E. Gustafson. Part 4 Women in Weimar: sartorial transgressions - re-dressing class and gender hierarchies in masquerades and travesties, Elisabeth Krimmer; women writers and the authorization of literary practice, Linda Dietrick; the hunchback of Weimar - Louise von Gochhausen and the weimar grotesque, Susanne Kord. Part 5 Wrapping up the Weimar myth: creation and constipation - Don Carlos and Schiller's blocked passage to Weimar, Stephanie B. Hammer; skeletons in Goethe's closet - human rights, protest, and the myth of political liberality, W. Daniel Wilson; the Weimar myth - from city of the arts to global village, Gert Theile.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Davidson German Studies Symposium, Burkhard Henke, Edward Neill
• Mitarbeit: Burkhard Henke (Herausgeber), Susanne Kord (Herausgeber), Simon Richter (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Camden House
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.1999
• Seiten: 208
• Abmessung: 163 mm x 237 mm x 29 mm
• Gewicht: 704 g
• Serie: Studies in German Literature,
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik