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.

Patricia Anne Simpson, Birgit Tautz

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 in Die Wahlverwandtschaften - Christopher Chiasson
Countering Catastrophe: Goethe's Novelle in the Aftershock of Heinrich von Kleist - Lisa Marie Anderson
Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe's "Ballade" versus Hoffmann's Der Sandmann - Christian P. Weber
Remembering Klopstock's Mitausdruck - Lea Pao
Strategic Indecision: Gender and Bureaucracy in Schiller's Maria Stuart - Samuel Heidepriem
The Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe's Plants in Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären and Triumph der Empfindsamkeit - Heather I. Sullivan
The Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe's Plants in Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären and Triumph 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 Jewish Faust Commentary: Notes on Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption - Willi Goetschel
From Idylle to idílio: Mário de Andrade's Parody of Hermann und Dorothea - Thomas O. Beebee
Koselleck's Timely Goethe? - Sean Franzel
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