SYMPOSIUM
Goethe at 250
Tuesday, 20 April to Friday, 23 April 1999
Institute of Germanic Studies,
29 Russell Square,
London WC1B 5DP
Co-Ordinators:
PROFESSOR J.D. ADLER (King's College London)
PROFESSOR T.J. REED (The Queen's College, Oxford)
PROFESSOR MARTIN SWALES (University College London)
MRS ANN WEAVER (English Goethe Society)
Contributors:
JOERG DREWS (Bielefeld): 'Opening Lecture'
PROFESSOR MARTIN SWALES (London): 'Goethe's analysis of modernity'
DR KATRIN KOHL (Oxford): '"Erhabener Gross-Papa!" The sublime, the
ridiculous and the natural in Goethe's work'
DR HANS-JOACHIM HAHN (Oxford Brookes): 'Kranke Marmorbilder und
kinderlose Worte: zu Gesundheit und Krankheit im Umkreis Goethes'
PROFESSOR W.E. YATES (Exeter): 'Goethe and the Vienna dramatists'
PROFESSOR LESLEY SHARPE (Exeter): 'Goethe and the repertoire of the
Weimar theatre'
DR LAURA MARTIN (Glasgow): 'Women in the Wanderjahre'
DR DUNCAN LARGE (Swansea): 'Goethe, Sterne and the question of
plagiarism'
DR DAVID HILL (Birmingham): 'The inner form of "Aus Goethes
Brieftasche"'
DR MARGARET IVES (Lancaster): `"Schoen guten Morgen, Herr Dr. G.":
Anna Luise Karsch and Goethe. Some poems and correspondence'
DR ELINOR SHAFFER (London): 'Goethe and Coleridge: Confessions'
DR NICHOLAS BOYLE (Cambridge): 'Goethe's drawings: the later cycles'
DR JOHN WILLIAMS (St Andrews): 'Goethe and the idealists: "der Teufel
als Wille und Vorstellung"'
MRS HILDA BROWN (Oxford): 'Goethe and the landscape-improvers: a
theme in Die Wahlverwandtschaften'
PROFESSOR LEONARD OLSCHNER (London): '1828 and the idea of
translation'
DR PAUL BISHOP (Glasgow): 'Goethe on the couch: the founding fathers
of Classicism and analysis'
DR DANIEL STEUER (Sussex): 'Morphologie und Moderne: Goethes
ironische Erkenntnistheorie'
DR ROGER HAUSHEER (Bradford): 'Science and method: can Goethe tell us
anything today?'
DR HENK DE BERG (Sheffield): 'Goethe, Heine and Quentin Skinner'
DR MATTHEW BELL (London): 'Liebe - Amor - Eros'
DR OUIDA TAAFFE (London): 'Goethe and hatred'
DR SARAH COLVIN (Edinburgh): 'Bitter comedy: Goethe and the dramatist
Charlotte von Stein'
PROFESSOR RUEDIGER GOERNER (London/Aston): 'Lob der Wiederholung: zur
Morphologie einer erfahrenen Idee'
DR KEVIN HILLIARD (Oxford): 'Figurations of writing in Goethe: the
Roemische Elegien as the turning-point in his conception of poetry'
DR RAYMOND OCKENDEN (Oxford): `"Ein schwankendes Los": the death of
Euphrosyne'
PROFESSOR JEREMY ADLER (London): 'Goethe's "Gedankenlyrik"'
PROFESSOR ROGER STEPHENSON (Glasgow): 'The ethical basis of Reineke's
rhetoric'
PROFESSOR ALAN MENHENNET (Newcastle): `"Im Gegenwaertigen Vergangenes
und umgekehrt": Goethe as historian'
PROFESSOR T.J. REED (Oxford): 'G-Force: a poet and the earth'
Registration:
stlg20.00 standard rate
stlg10.00 reduced rate for fully paid-up Friends of the Institute of
Germanic Studies and students (with proof of status)
Copies of the printed programme together with a registration card are
available from the Administrative Secretary, Institute of Germanic
Studies, 29 Russell Square, GB-London WC1B 5DP. Telephone: +44 (0)
171-580 2711; Facsimile: +44 (0) 171-436 3497; E-mail: [log in to unmask]
The event is organised in collaboration with the Embassy of the
Federal Republic of Germany, the English Goethe Society, the
Departments of German at King's College London and University College
London, and the Department of Modern and Medieval Languages at the
University of Oxford. It is sponsored by the English Goethe Society,
the Departments of German at King's College London and University
College London, and the Taylor Institution, University of Oxford.
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