Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play Around 1800
In: New Studies in the Age of Goethe Ser.
Cover -- Series Page -- Series Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Play in the Age of Goethe and Today / Edgar Landgraf and Elliott Schreiber -- Part I: Free Play -- Chapter One. Beauty and Erotic Play: Anacreontic Poetry's Transformation of Aesthetic Philosophy / Christian P. Weber -- Chapter Two. Free Play in German Idealism and Poststructuralism / Samuel Heidepriem -- Part II: Games of Chance -- Chapter Three. "Mit dem Spiele spielen": Lessing's Play for Tolerance / Edgar Landgraf -- Chapter Four. Play with Memory and Its Topoi: Faust / Nicholas Rennie -- Part III: Children's Play -- Chapter Five. Narcissus at Play: Goethe, Piaget, and the Passage from Egocentric to Social Play / Elliott Schreiber -- Chapter Six. Playthings: Goethe's Favorite Toys / Patricia Anne Simpson -- Chapter Seven. Kindergarten and the Pedagogy of Play in the German Educational Revolution / Ian F. McNeely -- Interlude -- Chapter Eight. Invective, Eulogy, Play: Jacobi's Sock 1799 / Christiane Frey -- Part IV. The Play of Language -- Chapter Nine. Between Speaking and Listening: Jean Paul's Wordplay / Michael Powers -- Chapter Ten. Authorship, Translation, Play: Schleiermacher's Metalangual Poetics / David Martyn -- Chapter Eleven. Playing with Words in Early German Romanticism / Brian Tucker -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.