The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. The book review section seeks likewise to evaluate a wide selection of recent publications on the period, and is important for all scholars of 18th-century literature. The contributions in volume 10 offer new readings of several of Goethe's works (in particular Götz von Berlichingen, Faust, Italienische Reise, and the Wilhelm Meister novels), new perspectives on Goethe as a writer, and new understanding of Goethe's literary/cultural legacy. A supplement continues the listing of North American Goethe dissertations that has been a feature of previous volumes to include the period 1989 to 1999, updating this unique bibliographical resource.Thomas P. Saine of the University of California, Irvine, has edited all the volumes of the Goethe Yearbook to date. Volume 10 was edited with the assistance of Simon J. Richter of the University of Pennsylvania, who will assume the editorship with volume 11. Ellis Dye of Macalester College is book review editor.
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A stimulating and enlightening collection... A significant repository of current Goethe scholarship. --Journal of European Studies
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Thomas P. Saine of the University of California. Irvine, has edited all the volumes of the Goethe Yearbook to date. Volume 10 was edited with the assistance of Simon Richter of the University of Pennsylvania, who will assume the editorship with volume 11. Ellis Dye of Macalester College is book review editor.
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Another Polished, Careful Effort,
By "jboswell2" (Powell, OH USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson (Literary Criticism in Perspective) (Paperback)
I have all of Tomarken's books. As a Johnson hobbyist, it encourages me to see how carefully Tomarken has studied his legacy. The last few books were about Johnson himself, but now Tomarken is using his quick wit and sharp intelligence to survey Johnson's legacy as it exists in criticism. I think Tomarken would be the first to admit that all criticism competes with the work it studies; this work, then, has the difficult yet enviable task of contending with both the titan Johnson himself and the nearly equally titanic bulk of those who would review, praise, or belittle him. Tomarken doesn't suffer fools glady, and the book is worth reading for no other reason than the facility with which he dispatches the ignorant, the ill-informed, and the insipid. All in all, not really a book for the Harry Potter set, or even for the idiots who have admitted Alice Walker and E.L. Doctorow to the literary canon - rather, this is a a bonsai of a book, obsessively groomed, fanatically detailed, lovingly grown to maturity.
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