#Wieland

[roughridingrednecks]

Wieland

[skyeventide]

modern historiography mostly moved away from "they were just friends" so it's like half on me if I read a book first published in 1981, but this biography of Goethe really on god wrote the words "that's just the language of the time". about a guy (Wieland) saying about Goethe that "I love him so much I want to devour him". yes cannibalistic metaphor is totally how everyone talked at the time. buddy either Wieland is a freak or he's talking about swallowing, sorry to say

[empirearchives]

Napoleon and the German poet Christoph Martin Wieland. Image from 1809-1810.

Wieland described Napoleon:

“Never in my life have I seen a man more simple, quiet, mild and unpretentious. There was not a sign that my companion was conscious of being a great monarch. He conversed with me like one old acquaintance with another.” (Source)

Image source: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

[blankvers]

Musarion kann ich nun auch auf meiner Leseliste abhaken.

Dass Wieland der og der Redewendung „Sie sehen den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht“ war, hat mich mehr fasziniert, als es sollte.

[mercedes-lenz]

schwabenstolz

[sherbertilluminated]

Semianonymous publication in the 18th century is fantastic.

According to Altmann, Mendelssohn writes a criticism of W from Zürich, only to learn that the author was not Wieland, as he had supposed, but someone named Jakob Wegelin. Who had read Mendelssohn's critique and thought it was by his friend Lessing: "only a Lessing could poke fun at so serious a theme" (142)!

[thelibraryofchaos]

Kitty's Reading Round-Up (Jan/Feb/March 2023)

Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown

Date Finished: January 9th

Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 (3/5)

Notes/Review: read this for an English essay I wrote on narrative ventriloquism. the essay was more interesting than the book. it was *fine* but I wouldn't read it again.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Date Finished: February 8th

Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 ⭐️(3.5/5)

Notes/Review: not my favourite Shakespeare play but it's a solid one to study and i liked the essay i wrote on it

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Date Finished: March 2nd

Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 (3/5)

Notes/Review: it was fine in the way old books are fine - long expositional passages and the plot took a while to reveal itself. i would read it again with a specific theoretical backing

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Date Finished: March 8th

Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 ⭐️(3.5/5)

Notes/Review: not my favourite Shakespeare play but it's a solid one to study and i liked the essay i wrote on it

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Date Finished: March 18th

Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 (3/5)

it was fine. i enjoyed the history behind the play more than the play itself.

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Date Finished: March 31st

Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟(3/5)

so... this book was fine

but genuinely, the middle of the book, from about page 75 to page 25o is just, like, boring?? it's just people complaining and someone dies off-screen but i read it fairly quickly

I'm also using it for my marxist essay ✌️

[setrija-nibelungenfangirl]

Hermann Vogel (1854-1921): Wieland der Schmied

aus Deutsche Heldensage für Jugend und Volk. Erzählt von Gustav Schalk. Illustriert von Hermann Vogel. 1. Aufl. Berlin 1891.

[secondstar-acorn]

reading wieland! no one told me this shit was gonna be spooky

[jessicamarianasocs]

[collageofnudes]

Olga Alberti (Beau M) by Martin Wieland

part 5 / 7 (part part 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 6 , 7)

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[nuancedsolitude]

[empirearchives]

German and Austrian contemporaries of Napoleon (plus one by Émile Zola in his essay about Stendhal, a French contemporary):

Source: Beethoven, by Maynard Solomon

[afieldinengland]

[thepersonalwords]

Only your children’s grandchildren may remember our stories, but the stories are not what makes a life. It’s living with a smile and a free spirit that will ripple throughout the stars.

T.S. Wieland