Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Special Section on What Goethe Heard, edited by Mary Helen Dupree
- Book Reviews
- Franz-Jose Deiters. Die Entweltlichung der Bühne: Zur Mediologie des Theaters der klassischen Episteme. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2015. 264 pp.
- Susa E. Gustafson. Goethe's Families of the Heart. 300 New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. 208 pp.
- Juli Koser. Armed Ambiguity: Women Warriors in German Literature and Culture in the Age of Goethe. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. x + 250 pp.
- Jeffre Champlin. The Making of a Terrorist: On Classic German Rogues. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2015. 176 pp.
- Christin Lehleiter, ed., fact and fiction: literary and scientifi c cultures in germany and britain. toronto, buffalo, and london: toronto up, 2016. xii + 336 pp. + 5 illustrations.
- Marce Lepper, Goethes Euphrat. Philologie und Politik im “West-östlichen Divan.” Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016. 149 pp.
- B. Venkat Mani, Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books. New York: Fordham UP, 2017. 348 pp.
- Angus Nicholls. Myth and the Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth. New York: Routledge, 2015. 259 pp.
- Malte Osterloh, Versammelte Menschenkraft—Die Großstadterfahrung in Goethes Italiendichtung. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2016. 366 pp.
- Daniel Schubbe und Søren R. Fauth, eds. Schopenhauer und Goethe: Biographische und philosophische Perspektiven. Hamburg: Meiner, 2016. 488 pp.
- Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge. Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015. 232 pp.
- Daniela Gretz and Nicolas Pethes, ed.Archiv/Fiktionen: Verfahren des Archivierens in Literatur und Kultur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2016. 431 pp.
- Alexander Jakovljević. Schillers Geschichtsdenken: Die Unbegreifl ichkeit der Weltgeschichte. Berlin: Ripperger & Kremers Verlag, 2015. 381 pp.
- JD. Mininger and Jason Michael Peck, eds. German Aesthetics: Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xi + 269 pp.
- Dorothea von Mücke. The Practices of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Authorship, and the Public. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 292 pp.
Daniela Gretz and Nicolas Pethes, ed. Archiv/Fiktionen: Verfahren des Archivierens in Literatur und Kultur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2016. 431 pp.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Special Section on What Goethe Heard, edited by Mary Helen Dupree
- Book Reviews
- Franz-Jose Deiters. Die Entweltlichung der Bühne: Zur Mediologie des Theaters der klassischen Episteme. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2015. 264 pp.
- Susa E. Gustafson. Goethe's Families of the Heart. 300 New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. 208 pp.
- Juli Koser. Armed Ambiguity: Women Warriors in German Literature and Culture in the Age of Goethe. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. x + 250 pp.
- Jeffre Champlin. The Making of a Terrorist: On Classic German Rogues. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2015. 176 pp.
- Christin Lehleiter, ed., fact and fiction: literary and scientifi c cultures in germany and britain. toronto, buffalo, and london: toronto up, 2016. xii + 336 pp. + 5 illustrations.
- Marce Lepper, Goethes Euphrat. Philologie und Politik im “West-östlichen Divan.” Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016. 149 pp.
- B. Venkat Mani, Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books. New York: Fordham UP, 2017. 348 pp.
- Angus Nicholls. Myth and the Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth. New York: Routledge, 2015. 259 pp.
- Malte Osterloh, Versammelte Menschenkraft—Die Großstadterfahrung in Goethes Italiendichtung. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2016. 366 pp.
- Daniel Schubbe und Søren R. Fauth, eds. Schopenhauer und Goethe: Biographische und philosophische Perspektiven. Hamburg: Meiner, 2016. 488 pp.
- Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge. Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015. 232 pp.
- Daniela Gretz and Nicolas Pethes, ed.Archiv/Fiktionen: Verfahren des Archivierens in Literatur und Kultur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2016. 431 pp.
- Alexander Jakovljević. Schillers Geschichtsdenken: Die Unbegreifl ichkeit der Weltgeschichte. Berlin: Ripperger & Kremers Verlag, 2015. 381 pp.
- JD. Mininger and Jason Michael Peck, eds. German Aesthetics: Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xi + 269 pp.
- Dorothea von Mücke. The Practices of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Authorship, and the Public. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 292 pp.
Summary
Daniela Gretz and Nicolas Pethes have edited an exciting volume with a focus on literary cultures of the long nineteenth century. Their primary concern is to deploy the concepts “archive” and “archiving” as interpretive tools for texts produced in the context of the nineteenth-century media revolution as well as its concomitant expansion of information and knowledge networks. Drawing on classical works theorizing the archive (Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida), as well as established and emerging scholarship in media theory and history, the volume frames texts as depositories of information, on the one hand. On the other, the volume seeks to outline how texts themselves perform archiving of information thematically or formally. Here, Archiv/Fiktionen considers how the documentation and storage of information presented in texts fosters literary self-reflectivity in which literature's own awareness as archive of knowledge or as mode permitting a deep engagement with archiving at a time of information excess emerges.
Archiv/Fiktionen is comprised of a comprehensive introduction and nineteen chapters divided into four sections. Section one, “Institutionen,” considers an array of techniques of archiving articulated through institutions such as the museum, the private collection, an Universalbiliothek, and collected works of authors. Contributions by Ulrike Vedder, Christine Weder, Michael Niehaus, and Philip Ajouri examine how such institutions instantiate an archive as much as they offer moments to critically reflect the process of archiving as, for instance, Niehaus does in his assessment of the fictive concept of a universal library. The universal library may contain all the knowledge of the world, but the necessity to present it as a non-functional archive articulates a futility of narrating archival fiction because of the impossibility to convey individual (his)stories. Section two, “Fiktionen,” expresses in which ways narrative strategies resemble archiving processes in select texts and to what end. The section features work by Stefan Willer, Nicolas Pethes, Torsten Hahn, Claudia Liebrand, and Rolf Parr, whose chapters offer examples of narrative texts preoccupied with the thematic of the archive. For example, Liebrand explains how Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's narrative approaches in select texts depend on a reimagining of an existing archive to form another, which, through this narrative transfiguration, (productively) distorts the aura of the original.
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- Goethe Yearbook 25Publications of the Goethe Society of North America, pp. 322 - 323Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018