Author Description

The <i>Goethe Yearbook</i> is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the <i>Goethezeit</i> while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world.<br> Volume 20 contains a special section on Goethe's lyric poetry with contributions from leading scholars. The essays incorporate a range of new methodologies that provide innovative readings of Goethe's most important poems, including contributions by Benjamin Bennett on <i>Faust</i> and Daniel Wilson on the <i>West-östliche Divan.</i> The volume also includesessays on <i>Götz von Berlichingen</i>, the Sturm-und-Drang sublime, the <i>Nibelungenlied</i>'s place within <i>Weltliteratur</i>, as well as an examination of Schiller's notion of freedom.<br><br> Contributors: Constantin Behler, Benjamin Bennett, Frauke Berndt, Fritz Breithaupt, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge, Andrew Erwin, Patrick Fortmann, Edgar Landgraf, Horst Lange, Charlotte Lee, Claudia Maienborn, Joseph D. O'Neil, Elizabeth Powers, Christian P. Weber, W. Daniel Wilson.<br><br> Daniel Purdy is Associate Professor of German at Pennsylvania State University. Book review editor Catriona MacLeod is Associate Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.