This year's volume is highlighted by a special section on Goethe's narrative events in addition to a range of other articles from emerging and established scholars.

This year's volume is highlighted by a special section on Goethe's narrative events in addition to a range of other articles from emerging and established scholars.



TheGoethe Yearbook 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 theGoethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 26 features a special section on Goethe's narrative events, with contributions on "Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe's "Ballade" vs. Hoffmann'sDer Sandmann," "The Absence of Events inDie Wahlverwandtschaften," and "Countering Catastrophe: Goethe'sNovelle in the Aftershock of Kleist." This issue also showcases work presented atthe 2017 Atkins Goethe Conference (Re-Orientations around Goethe), including contributions by Eva Geulen on morphology and W. Daniel Wilson on the Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich. In addition there are articles by emerging and established scholars on Klopstock, Schiller, Goethe and objects, dark green ecology, and texts of theGoethezeit and beyond through the lens of world literature. Book reviews conclude the volume.

Contributors: Lisa Marie Anderson, Thomas O. Beebee, Fritz Breithaupt, Christopher Chiasson, Patrick Fortmann, Sean Franzel, Eva Geulen, Willi Goetschel, Stefan Hajduk, Samuel Heidepriem, Bryan Klausmeyer, Lea Pao, Elizabeth Powers, James Shinkle, Heather I. Sullivan, Christian P. Weber, W. Daniel Wilson, Karin A. Wurst.

TheGoethe Yearbook is edited, beginning with this volume, by Patricia Anne Simpson, Professor of German and Chairperson of Modern Languages at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Birgit Tautz, George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College. Book Review Editor is Sean Franzel, Associate Professor of German at the University ofMissouri-Columbia.

REORIENTATIONS AROUND GOETHE I
Morphologie und gegenständliches Denken - Eva Geulen
REORIENTATIONS AROUND GOETHE II
"Global Mission": The Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich - W. Daniel Wilson
SPECIAL SECTION on GOETHE'S NARRATIVE EVENTS
What Is an Event for Goethe? - Fritz Breithaupt
Much Ado about Nothing? The Absence of Events inDie Wahlverwandtschaften - Christopher Chiasson
Countering Catastrophe: Goethe'sNovelle in the Aftershock of Heinrich von Kleist - Lisa Marie Anderson
Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe's "Ballade" versus Hoffmann'sDer Sandmann - Christian P. Weber
Remembering Klopstock'sMitausdruck - Lea Pao
Strategic Indecision: Gender and Bureaucracy in Schiller'sMaria Stuart - Samuel Heidepriem
The Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe's Plants inVersuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären andTriumph der Empfindsamkeit - Heather I. Sullivan
The Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe's Plants inVersuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären andTriumph der Empfindsamkeit - James Shinkle
Abschlussbewegungen: Goethe, Freud, and Spectral Forms of Life - Bryan Klausmeyer
Ein Mythos und sein doppelter Entzug des Modernen: Prämissen für einen Ausweg aus der Unübersichtlichkeit der Faustforschung - Stefan Hajduk
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Conversation with Things - Karin A. Wurst
World Literature Turns Political, 1835/36: The Early Afterlife of Goethe's Pronouncement in German Cultural-Politics and in the Young Germany Movement - Patrick Fortmann
Fritz Strich and the Dilemmas of World Literature Today - Elizabeth Powers
A JewishFaust Commentary: Notes on Franz Rosenzweig'sThe Star of Redemption - Willi Goetschel
FromIdylle toidílio: Mário de Andrade's Parody ofHermann und Dorothea - Thomas O. Beebee
Koselleck's Timely Goethe? - Sean Franzel
Book Reviews