Goethe Yearbook 17

HERBERT ROWLAND is Emeritus Professor of German at Purdue University. PETER HÖYNG is Professor of German at Emory University.

• "Offenbares Geheimnis" oder "geheime Offenbarung"? Goethes Märchen und die Apokalypse - Christian ClementGoethe's Green: The "Mixed" Boundary Colors in Zur Farbenlehre - Pamela CurrieFor Heaven's Sake: I Will Have You Walk Into the Dark -- Grillparzer's Containment of Beethoven and the Ambivalences of their Melusina-Project - Peter HöyngImitation, Pleasure, and Aesthetic Education in the Poetics and Comedies of Johann Elias Schlegel - Herbert RowlandFeindlich verbündet: Lessing und die Neuen Erweiterungen der Erkenntnis und des Vergnügens - Karl S. GuthkeJuvenalian Satire in Goethe's "Das Tagebuch" - Matthew BellHelena, then Hell: Faust as Review and Anticipation of Modern Times - Ulrich GaierHistrionic Nationality: Implications of the Verse in Faust - Benjamin K. BennettDie Wette in Goethes Faust - Gerrit BrueningEcocriticism, the Elements, and the Ascent/Descent into Weather in Goethe's Faust - Heather I. SullivanGrablegung im Vorhof des Palasts: Groteske Anschaulichkeit in den vorletzten Szenen von Faust II - Johannes AndereggGoethes Gnostiker: Fausts vergessener Nihilismus und sein Streben nach Erlösungswissen - Stefan HajdukThe Unconscious of Nature: Analyzing Disenchantment in Faust I - Frederick AmrineForms of Figuration in Faust I - Clark MuenzerGoethe's Morphology of Knowledge, or the Overgrowth of Nomenclature - Chad WellmonParaphrasis: Goethe, the Novella, and Forms of Transitional Knowledge - Andrew PiperDramas of Knowledge: The "Fortunate Event" of Recognition - Ellwood Wigginsgegen: Bewegungen durch Goethes "Der Mann von fünfzig Jahren" - Marcus Wilczek

Illustrates] that it is possible to approach Goethe with a considerable degree of sophistication, but in a largely non-technical way. . . . As well as demonstrating the usual high production values of the Goethe Yearbook, volume 17 offers, in the best tradition of academic scholarship, numerous points for further exploration.