Werke und Briefe. Volume I: Lyrik 1887-1905 by Christian
Morgenstern; Martin Kiessig;Werke und Briefe. Volume V: Aphorismen
by Christian Morgenstern; Reinhardt Habel; Werkeund Briefe. Volume
VI: Kritische Schriften by Christian Morgenstern; Helmut
GumtauReview by: Raymond FurnessThe Modern Language Review, Vol.
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Werke und Briefe. By CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN. Volume I: Lyrik
I887-I905. Edited by MARTIN KIESSIG; Volume v: Aphorismen. Edited
by REINHARDT HABEL; Volume vi: Kritische Schriften. Edited by
HELMUT GUMTAU. Stuttgart: Urach- haus. 1988; 1987; 1987. Io59pp.;
763pp.; 894pp. DM I o; DM 80; DM 9o.
This new Stuttgarter Ausgabe of the work of Christian
Morgenstern will ultimately consist of nine volumes: three have so
far appeared. The edition promises to be the first scholarly
assessment of the published work as well as of Morgenstern's
Nachlaft: contributions and essays which appeared in various
periodicals under different pseudonyms will also be brought
together for the first time, and the letters will be published in
their entirety. This lavish and methodical presentation of
Morgenstern's oeuvre is timely indeed, replacing as it doubtless
will the random and rather haphazard editions which have hitherto
appeared. It will also redress the false impression which is at
present current of Morgenstern as a whimsical purveyor of
light-hearted verse or as a rapt disciple of Rudolf Steiner. Volume
I is a commentated selection of poetry dating from 1887, and
includes the famous In Phantas SchloJf, Ich und die Welt, and Und
aber riindet sich ein Kreis. The poems from the Nachlafi
demonstrate Morgenstern's remarkable variety of tone, encompassing
poems in Bavarian dialect, visions a la Mombert and satire (the
parsimonious treatment of Liliencron). The Apparat, as may be
expected, is punctilious and impressive in its detail. Volume v
contains the collected aphorisms plus 530 from the NachlaJp:
Morgenstern may be compared with Nietzsche in the trenchant and
elegant refinement of his thought, which ranges over nature, art,
literature, theatre, language, politics, education, psychology, and
mysticism. The commentary is here more extensive than the actual
text, and Reinhardt Habel is to be congratulated for leading the
reader through the labyrinth. Volume vI reminds us of Morgenstern's
critical writings (his editorship of Das Theater, his activity as
Lektor for Bruno Cassirer) and covers a wide range of essays and
reviews (for Jugend and Die Gesellschaft and other lesser-known
journals). Morgenstern's intellectual range is indeed astounding,
and this excellent edition will give him the stature that he so
richly deserves.
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS RAYMOND FURNESS
Thomas Mann Jahrbuch. Volume I. Edited by ECKHARD HEFTRICH and
HANS WYSLING. Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 1988. 246pp. DM60.
The launch of this splendid new yearbook, which is published in
cooperation with the Deutsche Thomas-Mann-Gesellschaft Lilbeck, is
to be welcomed. To judge by its first volume it will quickly
establish itself as a major periodical no library should be
without: complete with an index of references to Mann's works and
one to individuals, it makes exciting reading. Its style makes it
eminently readable, its material establishes its scholarly
credentials.
The first 166 pages contain ten of the twelve papers read at the
Second Inter- national Thomas-Mann-Kolloquium Liibeck in April
1988. In their written form they recapture the urbanity,
scholarship, and provocation of that gathering made possible by the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The editors are themselves among
the contributors: Hans Wysling's 'Probleme der "Zauberberg"-
Interpretation' wears its immense learning so lightly that it can
map out a whole adventure of necessary enquiries in a few pages;
Eckhard Heftrich's critical analysis of 'Thomas Manns Verhaltnis
zum Deutschtum und Judentum', delivered with considerable verve,
caught the attention of the media at the time and deserves ours.
The ambiguity of Mann's position (and the formulations he allowed
himself) are cause for alarm and in need of explanation in the
historical context.
Werke und Briefe. By CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN. Volume I: Lyrik
I887-I905. Edited by MARTIN KIESSIG; Volume v: Aphorismen. Edited
by REINHARDT HABEL; Volume vi: Kritische Schriften. Edited by
HELMUT GUMTAU. Stuttgart: Urach- haus. 1988; 1987; 1987. Io59pp.;
763pp.; 894pp. DM I o; DM 80; DM 9o.
This new Stuttgarter Ausgabe of the work of Christian
Morgenstern will ultimately consist of nine volumes: three have so
far appeared. The edition promises to be the first scholarly
assessment of the published work as well as of Morgenstern's
Nachlaft: contributions and essays which appeared in various
periodicals under different pseudonyms will also be brought
together for the first time, and the letters will be published in
their entirety. This lavish and methodical presentation of
Morgenstern's oeuvre is timely indeed, replacing as it doubtless
will the random and rather haphazard editions which have hitherto
appeared. It will also redress the false impression which is at
present current of Morgenstern as a whimsical purveyor of
light-hearted verse or as a rapt disciple of Rudolf Steiner. Volume
I is a commentated selection of poetry dating from 1887, and
includes the famous In Phantas SchloJf, Ich und die Welt, and Und
aber riindet sich ein Kreis. The poems from the Nachlafi
demonstrate Morgenstern's remarkable variety of tone, encompassing
poems in Bavarian dialect, visions a la Mombert and satire (the
parsimonious treatment of Liliencron). The Apparat, as may be
expected, is punctilious and impressive in its detail. Volume v
contains the collected aphorisms plus 530 from the NachlaJp:
Morgenstern may be compared with Nietzsche in the trenchant and
elegant refinement of his thought, which ranges over nature, art,
literature, theatre, language, politics, education, psychology, and
mysticism. The commentary is here more extensive than the actual
text, and Reinhardt Habel is to be congratulated for leading the
reader through the labyrinth. Volume vI reminds us of Morgenstern's
critical writings (his editorship of Das Theater, his activity as
Lektor for Bruno Cassirer) and covers a wide range of essays and
reviews (for Jugend and Die Gesellschaft and other lesser-known
journals). Morgenstern's intellectual range is indeed astounding,
and this excellent edition will give him the stature that he so
richly deserves.
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS RAYMOND FURNESS
Thomas Mann Jahrbuch. Volume I. Edited by ECKHARD HEFTRICH and
HANS WYSLING. Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 1988. 246pp. DM60.
The launch of this splendid new yearbook, which is published in
cooperation with the Deutsche Thomas-Mann-Gesellschaft Lilbeck, is
to be welcomed. To judge by its first volume it will quickly
establish itself as a major periodical no library should be
without: complete with an index of references to Mann's works and
one to individuals, it makes exciting reading. Its style makes it
eminently readable, its material establishes its scholarly
credentials.
The first 166 pages contain ten of the twelve papers read at the
Second Inter- national Thomas-Mann-Kolloquium Liibeck in April
1988. In their written form they recapture the urbanity,
scholarship, and provocation of that gathering made possible by the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The editors are themselves among
the contributors: Hans Wysling's 'Probleme der "Zauberberg"-
Interpretation' wears its immense learning so lightly that it can
map out a whole adventure of necessary enquiries in a few pages;
Eckhard Heftrich's critical analysis of 'Thomas Manns Verhaltnis
zum Deutschtum und Judentum', delivered with considerable verve,
caught the attention of the media at the time and deserves ours.
The ambiguity of Mann's position (and the formulations he allowed
himself) are cause for alarm and in need of explanation in the
historical context.
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Article Contentsp.1028
Issue Table of ContentsThe Modern Language Review, Vol. 85, No.
4 (Oct., 1990), pp. i-viii+817-1056+i-xlVolume Information
[pp.i-xxx]Front Matter [pp.i-viii]Psalmody as Translation
[pp.817-828]Elizabeth Gaskell and the "Athenaeum": Two
Contributions Identified [pp.829-832]Philippe Jaccottet: 'J'ai dit
une fois le pr de mai...' the May Meadow Revisited: Iterative
Process in the Prose of "Beauregard" [pp.833-841]The Literature of
Appropriation: Eco's Use of Borges in "Il nome della rosa"
[pp.842-849]"El licenciado Vidriera" and the Glass Men of Early
Modern Europe [pp.850-865]Digressions for Future Instalments: Some
Reflections on Jean Paul's Epic Outlook [pp.866-878]Spatial Images
in Peer Gynt: Ibsen's Inversion of the Feminine Redemptive
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The Presidential Address of the Modern Humanities Research
Association, 1990On Goethe's "Unterhaltungen" [pp.xxxi-xxxviii]
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