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Text 15
Volume 15 continues to offer international perspectives on textual scholarship, including contributions by Adrian Armstrong, Ronald Broude, Danielle Clarke, A.S.G. Edwards, Neil Fraistat and Steven E. Jones, David Leon Higdon, Chris Jones, John Jowett, Barbara Oberg, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Manuel Portela, Damian Judge Rollison, Helen Smith, Dirk van Hulle, Andrew van der Vlies, and H.T.M. van Vliet, on topics ranging from the textuality of Thomas Jefferson to the gendering of the Early Modern British book trades. Items under review include The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 1, edited by Robert Adams, Hoyt N. Huggan, Eric Eliason, Ralph Hanna III, John Price-Wilkin, and Thorlac Turnvil...
Texts in Multiple Versions
Texts in multiple versions constitute the core problem of textual scholarship. For texts from antiquity and the medieval period, the many versions may be the result of manuscript transmission, requiring editors and readers to discriminate between levels of authority in variant readings produced along the chain of copying. For texts of all periods, and particularly for more modern authors, there may also be multiple authorial versions. These are of particular importance for genetic criticism, as they offer a window on the author's thinking through the developing work. The different contexts in which multiple versions may occur - different languages, different genres, different cultures, rangi...
Reading Notes
Reading notes constitute a vast resource for an understanding of literary history and culture. They indicate what writers read as well as how they read and what they used in their own work. As such, they play an important role in both the reception and the production of texts. The essays in this volume, representing the newest trends in European and international textual scholarship, examine literary creation and the relationship between reading and writing. To study how readers respond to writing and how reading engenders new writing, the contributing scholars no longer take for granted that authors write in splendid isolation, but turn to a more broadly sociological investigation of author...
Commitment and Compassion
The writer, scientist, philosopher, and radical democrat Georg Büchner (1813-1837) occupies a unique place in the cultural legacy of the German-speaking countries. Born into an epoch of inevitable, yet arrested historical transition, Büchner produced a small but exceptionally rich body of work. This collection of essays in English and in German considers the full spectrum of his writings, the political pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote, the dramas Danton’s Tod, Leonce und Lena, Woyzeck, and the fragmentary narrative Lenz, as well as the letters, the philosophical lectures on Descartes and Spinoza, and the scientific texts. The essays examine connections between these works, study texts in detail, debate ways of editing them, and trace their reception in contemporary literature and film. The novel readings presented here not only celebrate Büchner on the eve of his bicentenary birthday but also insert this untimely figure into discussions of the revolution-restoration dynamic and realism in poetics and politics.
Quo Vadis
Mirroring her lifes journey to Homers 8th century B.C.E. epic, The Odyssey, Eva-Marie Schrankl creatively weaves her autobiography through the changing global landscape of the 20th century, bringing major political and social issues to life. By listening to the sirens call, Eva, unlike Ulysses, is able to glean wisdom without falling prey to their curse, ultimately finding peace and happiness. Quo Vadis artistically delivers an arresting account of universal themes, such as ethics, morality, art, family and existential loneliness in a way that is playful and profound. This book makes a beautiful case of lifes endless surprises, uncovering truths with language that, for all of its formal experimentation, is intimate and poignantly real.
Krankheitsbild als rhetorisches Element in Georg Büchners Lenz und Woyzeck
Ein grundlegendes Strukturierungsprinzip prägt Büchners Werke: Er experimentiert wie ein Wissenschaftler mit der Betrachtung von Sachverhalten. Aus seinem Studium der Medizin und der Anatomie überträgt er naturwissenschaftliche Methoden des Experimentierens auf das Experimentieren mit Gedanken und vorherrschenden Ideen seiner Zeit. Dabei stellt er die einzelnen Perspektiven wie Stadien von Krankheiten vor, in der Gegenüberstellung der Pole von Krankheit und Gesundheit sowie in der Frage nach der Grenze zwischen krank und gesund. Hervorzuhebende Beispiele sind das Durchspielen verschiedener Weltsichten (krank – »normal«, Stadien der Krankheit) in der Erzählung Lenz und das Durchspielen des Woyzeck-Falles unter unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in den einzelnen Handschriften.
Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire
Between 1355 and 1806 the title of Poet Laureate was bestowed on around 1500 persons in the territories of the Holy Roman Empire. In some cases the title was conferred by the Emperor himself, on his own initiative or in response to a petitioner. In others the title was granted by a count palatine acting upon the Emperor's behalf, but an even larger number had the title bestowed on them by various German universities exercising this privilege under the Emperor's authority. The lives and publications of 1340 of these poets were detailed in the four-volume Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook published in 2006. This supplementary volume provides similar information about some 130 further poets who have come to light since that work was published. Furthermore, it updates, augments and - where necessary - corrects details relating to the poets covered in the previous volumes. In particular, it includes extensive new information about the two dozen women poets who were laureated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook, Volume 1–4 is still available for purchase.
2005-2008
Das Georg Büchner Jahrbuch, das in unregelmäßigen Abständen erscheint, „soll der Georg-Büchner-Forschung als ein Forum der Bestandsaufnahme und der Innovation, der Reflexion und der Debatte, der Quellendokumentation wie der raschen Mitteilung, der Auseinandersetzung wie der Verständigung dienen und dabei die ganze inhaltliche und methodische Breite der Forschungsergebnisse und -diskussionen erfassen“. Dieser Zielrichtung in der Vorbemerkung zum 1. Band (1981) sucht das Jahrbuch seitdem in allen seinen regelmäßigen Abteilungen (Aufsätze ‐ Debatten ‐ Kleinere Beiträge und Glossen ‐ Dokumente und Materialien ‐ Rezensionen) gerecht zu werden. Bisher rund 100 Beiträger aus 14 Ländern, zahlreiche zustimmende Urteile auch außerhalb der Fachöffentlichkeit und nicht zuletzt die Entwicklung der Büchner-Forschung selbst bestätigen den Erfolg.
2009−2012
Das „Georg Büchner Jahrbuch“, Bd. 12, versammelt 16 Aufsätze vor allem zum „Hessischen Landboten“, zum dramatischen Werk, zur Korrespondenz Büchners und zur Rezeption im 20. Jh. Die Autoren analysieren die rhetorische Strategie in der Flugschrift, revidieren die bisherigen Annahmen zu den Textanteilen Georg Büchners und Friedrich Ludwig Weidigs und beleuchten Büchners „Grundsätze“. Anhand der Kleidermetaphorik in Büchners Texten wird seine radikale, illusionslose Modernität hervorgehoben. Andere Aufsätze untersuchen das Verhältnis zwischen Büchner und Ludwig Börne einerseits, Büchner und Karl Gutzkow andererseits. Weitere Themen sind u. a. die Umstände der Entdeckung Büchners für die deutschen Theater, seine produktive Rezeption durch Autoren wie Volker Braun, Max Frisch, Stanislawa Przybyszewska, Fragen wie diejenige nach den Voraussetzungen für die Annahme einer „Weltanschauung“ Büchners oder diejenige, inwieweit Büchners Geschwister Ludwig und Alexander das politische Werk ihres Bruders fortsetzten.
