Contents: The Eye and the Gaze: Goethe and the Autobiographical Subject – The Transformative View: Goethe’s Italian Journey – Birth in Language: Goethe’s Biographical Masquerade – The End of Language: Goethe, Lavater and the Eye/I of Physiognomy – Werther Fever: Cause and Cure – The Narcissistic I/Eye: Performance, Politics and Specular Lessons – Images of Desire: Tableaux Vivants in Goethe’s Elective Affinities – Specular Confessions: Goethe on Newton and Lavater.
Evelyn K. Moore, Associate Professor Emerita of German at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, has published in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature including The Passions of Rhetoric: Lessing and the German Enlightenment, 1993. She co-edited The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture, 2007, as well as (Re)-turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies from 2003–2009.
«Der weite Blickwinkel auf die Relation von Visualität und
autobiographischer Dimension in G.s Werk ermöglicht einen
vielversprechenden Grenzgang zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und
Psychoanalyse mit einem umfangreichen Bildmaterial.»
(Klaus Schenk, GERMANISTIK Internationales Referatenorgan mit
bibliographischen Hinweisen Band 59, Heft 1-2/2018)
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