...Curtis C. D. Vail Rolf King, Calvin Brown, and Erich Funke. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1950. Pp. xxvii + 252. $5.00. Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Curtis C. D. Vail 313 Goethe on Human...

... discrepancies between the two tongues. MARGARETSCHLAUCH University of Warsaw Goethe, The Poet. By KARL VIETOR.Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1949. Pp. x + 341. $5.00. Goethe, The Thinker. By KARLVIETOR. Cambridge : Harvard...

...Catriona MacLeod Goethe As Woman: The Undoing of Literature . By Benjamin Bennett. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 274 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford...

... Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist . By Ellwood Wiggins . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press , 2019 . xvii + 319 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 The figure of the theatrum mundi has never been a mere ornamental device, employed...

..., 1976. 340 pp. $17.50. The novel fascinated Goethe throughout his life. He read and commented on innumerable works in the genre from Cervantes through Scott and Sten- dhal, and over a period of more than half a century, he wrote and rewrote four novels of his own. Of these only the first...

... of Goethe. By HENRYHATFIELD. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. xi + 283 pp. $5.95. “Professor Hatfield has a fascinating story to tell, and he does it full justice. He steers a middle course between that rejection of German Hellenism which marked E. M. Butler’s erratic Tyranny...

.... LORE B. FOLTIN University of Pittsburgh llae German Imuge of Goethe. By WOLFGANGLEPPMANN. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1961. Pp. xv 4- 220. 38s. This book presents the first expansive treatment in the English language of the Wirkungsgeschichte of Goethe in Germany. Wolfgang...

... Goethe. By HEINZMOENKEMEYER. Giessen : Wilhelm Schmitz Verlag, Beitrage zur deutschen Philologie, Band 2, 1955. Pp. 198. This is a useful compilation of the Occurrences of the word and concept of Sorge in Goethe’s work, excepting only the Cellini translation and the scientific...

...Alfred R. Neumann Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 GOETHE AND KLEIST’S “DER ZERBROCHENE KRUG” By ALFREDR. NEUMANN The failure of the production of Heinrich von Kleist’s comedy Der zerbrochene Krug at the Weimar theater on March 2, 1808, has...

...Richard J. Browne; M. C. Davis Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 GOETHE AND THE YO-YO By RICHARDJ. BROWNEand M. C. DAVIS Concerning the composition of the Venexianische Epigramme, Goethe once made the remark: “Es sind dieses Fruchte, die...

...’ of our teaching” are welcome acknowledg- ments of the fact that the contemplation of sign-vehicles does not constitute the interpretation of signs. FRANZRENB SOMMERFELD University of Washington Goethe After Two Centuries. Edited by CARLHAMMER...

...Frank G. Ryder GEORGE TICKNOR AND GOETHE EUROPE AND HARVARD By FRANKG. RYDER In a recent survey of the early years of George Ticknor’s studies and travels I presented evidence for revising, first, our appraisal of this eminent young...

...John Hennig © 1954 University of Washington 1954 GOETHE AND THE EDGEWORTHS By JOHN HENNIG In my note on “Two Irish Bulls in Kant’s Kritik der Urtheilskraft” (MLQ, VIII [ 19471, 487-88) I mentioned Goethe’s letter...

...Carl Hammer, Jr. Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 GOETHE, PREVOST, AND LOUISIANA By CARLHAMMER, JR. The inspirational role played by Prkvost’s Manon Lescuut in the stylization of one of the most intriguing episodes of Dichtung und...

... and rather isolated letters to Karl Philipp Moritz, Goethe, Wieland, and Knebel fail to establish anything like a common bond between him and these men. Another peculiarity of Jean Paul’s correspondence is his apparent reluc- tance to discuss aesthetic or literary problems with his friends...

...Wolfgang Leppmann Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 SHAPING THE MODERN GOETHEBILD THE YEARBOOK OF THE GOETHE SOCIETY By WOLFGANGLEPPMANN The first issue of the Goetlze Yearbook appeared in 1880. At present simply...

...Brian A. Rowley Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 THE “AGES OF MAN” IN GOETHE AND GEORGE By BRIANA. ROWLEY Stefan George’s “Vogelschau,” first published at the end of AZgabal (1892), and later at the end of the volume in the collected...

... to be dramatized, and in this regard Germany showed the greatest productivity, but, as Mr. Atkins notes, “only when the playwrights disregarded the character of Werther . . . in Goethe’s novel did they . . . achieve dramatic movement or . . . suspense.” Perhaps one of the best results in Ger- many...

... of the references tedious. A. M. SAUERLANDER University of Wushington The Dream in Gerhart Hauptmann. By JOHN JACOB WEISERT.New York: King’s Crown Press, 1949. Pp. 120. v.25. Gerhart Hauptmann and Goethe. By SIEGFRIEDH. MULLER. New York...

... burgerlichen Bddung. By PAULRILLA. Berlin: Bruno Henschel & Sohn, 1949. Pp. 88. DM 3.50. Paul Rilla has set out to debunk-not Goethe, but the picture of Goethe as drawn by the literary historians. Their work affords a keen-eyed critic a wonderful outing. Applying what he calls the Marx...