Nominator's project description
| The Germanist und Comparatist Jane K. Brown from the University of Washington at Seattle (USA) has established a reputation in recent decades as an eminent and internationally recognised Goethe scholar, placing herself in the comapany of a number of well-known Anglo-American colleagues. With the name "Goethe", however, she evokes a whole literary continent, whose dimensions can be designated by the terms "Goethe and the European Tradition" and "Goethe and World Literature". Her five books on Goethe are devoted to these far-reaching fields, especially her latest book (in print): "Psychomachia: Allegory and Classical Form in European Drama", which investigates the inherent tension between the allegorical theatre of the world and Aristotelian mimesis that obtains in the form of the drama in almost all European literatures from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Jane Brown intends to use her period of research in Tübingen to work on a project with the title "Goethe and th Modern Subject", whose range extends from the Renaissance to Sigmund Freud.
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2007 | Jane K. Brown: The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 |
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