Unwrapping Goethe's Weimar: Essays in Cultural Studies and Local Knowledge

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-1-57113-194-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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

The 1999 celebrations of Goethe's two hundred and fiftieth birthday and the city's designation as Culture City of Europe give rise to this comprehensive look at the myth of Goethe's Weimar and the ways it has been packaged. Some of the most prominent North American Germanists have delved into archives and forgotten texts to reveal a troubled locus of culture, commodification, and ideological projection. Goethe's presence in Weimar receives new currency inexplorations of consumer culture and the fashioning of bourgois taste; women artists and the market; portrait busts and their display practices; Anna Amalia and musical collaboration; masquerades and cross-dressing; Göchhausen and the Weimar Grotesque; Goethe's views on soldiering and acting; propaganda and human rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henke, Burkhard

Kord, Susanne

Richter, Simon

Weitere Mitwirkende

Randall, Annie Janiero

Henke, Burkhard

MacLeod, Catriona

Purdy, Daniel

Krimmer, Elisabeth

Theile, Gert

Schutjer, Karin L.

Dietrick, Linda

Richter, Simon

Hammer, Stephanie

Gustafson, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Like a Box of Chocolates. - Simon Richter
Goethe. Advertising, Marketing, and Merchandising the Classical - Burkhard Henke
Weimar Classicism and the Origins of Consumer Culture - Daniel Purdy
Floating Heads: Weimar Portrait Busts - Catriona MacLeod
Music in Weimar cicra 1780: Decentering Text, Decentering Goethe - Annie Janiero Randall
War and Dramaturgy: Goethe's Command of the Weimar Theater - Karin Schutjer
From Werther to Amazons: Cross-Dressing and Male-Male Desire - Susan Gustafson
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 Göchhausen and the Weimar Grotesque -
Creation and Constipation: Don Carlos and Schiller's Blocke Passage to Weimar - Stephanie Hammer
Skeletons in Goethe's Closet: Human Rights, Protest, and the Myth of Political Liberality -
The Weimar Myth: From City of the Arts to the Global Village - Gert Theile

Über Autor(innen)

Krimmer, Elisabeth
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.

Kord, Susanne
SUSANNE KORD is Professor of German at University College London and has published widely on crime and antisemitism, ethics in horror films, women and violent crime, and many other books and essays on film (especially genre and Hollywood movies), women's literary history and reception, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. She has received 6 major awards for her writing. In the interest of making some of women's unknown literature available to modern readers, she has edited four collections of plays by women and translated three dramas into English. Her major works include Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860 (Cambridge UP, 2013), Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars (McFarland, 2018). Her latest book is a short exploration of Drew Goddard's meta-horror film The Cabin in the Woods (2012), forthcoming with Liverpool University Press in 2022.