{"id":377,"date":"2020-07-06T10:08:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/?post_type=profile&p=377"},"modified":"2022-07-11T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T14:39:25","slug":"peter-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/profile\/peter-schwartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Schwartz teaches courses in German and comparative literature and in film. His special interests include the Enlightenment (as historical event and unfinished process), European neoclassicism and modernism, American, French, Dutch and Japanese literature, early film and photography, the critical work of the Frankfurt School, literary and musical folk genres, visual propaganda, and the \u201cscience of culture\u201d (Kulturwissenschaft<\/em>) of the art historian Aby Warburg and his circle.\u00a0 He is the author of\u00a0After Jena: Goethe\u2019s\u00a0Elective Affinities\u00a0and the End of the Old Regime\u00a0<\/em>(Bucknell UP, 2010) and of articles on Goethe and his age, Georg B\u00fcchner, Aby M. Warburg, Michael Haneke, and the Faust tradition in its relation to media history; his most recent publication is an iconographic study of Chinese Communist paper money and Soviet silent film (2014).\u00a0 His complete translation of a classic work of literary genre theory, Andr\u00e9 Jolles\u2019s\u00a0Simple Forms\u00a0<\/em>(1929), was published by Verso Books (London) in February 2017, and he is writing a book about Aby Warburg\u2019s response to the First World War.<\/p>\n

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PUBLICATIONS<\/h2>\n

BOOK<\/h3>\n

After Jena: Goethe\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Elective Affinities\u00a0<\/span>and the End of the Old Regime<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Bucknell University Press, 2010). 358 pages.<\/p>\n

Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviews: ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>n.s. vol. 36 (for 2010):\u00a0 442-45,\u00a0<\/span>Eighteenth-Century Studies<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>45.4 (2012): 613-16,\u00a0<\/span>German Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>84.1 (Winter 2011): 110-12,\u00a0<\/span>German Studies Review<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>35.2 (May 2012): 402-403,\u00a0<\/span>Goethe-Jahrbuch<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>128 (2011): 357-58,\u00a0<\/span>Goethe Yearbook<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>18 (2011): 308-09,\u00a0<\/span>Monatshefte<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>105.2 (2013): 332-34,\u00a0<\/span>Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>49.2 (2013): 254-56.<\/p>\n

SCHOLARLY TRANSLATIONS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Andr\u00e9 Jolles,\u00a0<\/span>Simple Forms<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(London: Verso Books, 2017), with a foreword by Fredric Jameson and a critical introduction by Peter J. Schwartz. 272 pages<\/p>\n

Verso Books<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviews: Marta Figlerowicz, \u201cHow To Do Things With Genres,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>, 30 March 2017:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/how-to-do-things-with-genres\/<\/a>; Jan Baetens,\u00a0<\/span>Critical Inquiry<\/em>, August 29, 2018:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu\/jan_baetens_reviews_simple_forms\/<\/a>; David Martyn, \u201cThe Morphology of Simple Forms \u2013 Then and Now,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Arcadia<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>2018; 53(2): 445-452; Geertjan de Vugt, \u201cAndr\u00e9 Jolles: Vormen, Gebaren, en Formules,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>De Nederlandse Boekengids \/ The Dutch Review of Books<\/em>, 3\/6 (December 2018-January 2019), 45-7.<\/a><\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 Jolles, \u201cLegend\u201d (an abridgement of one chapter from\u00a0Simple Forms<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>[1929]), with a short introduction.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>PMLA<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>128, No. 3 (May 2013): 728-743.<\/p>\n

Selections from Johann Christian August Clarus,\u00a0<\/span>The Legal Accountability of the Murderer Johann Christian Woyzeck, Demonstrated with Documentary Evidence According to the Principles of the Science of Public Health<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(1825).\u00a0 In Matthew Wilson Smith, ed.,\u00a0<\/span>Georg B\u00fcchner: The Major Works<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(New York: Norton, 2012), 199-208.<\/p>\n

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS<\/h3>\n
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\u201cThe Ideological Antecedents of the First-Series Renminbi Worker-and-Peasant Banknote, or What Mao Tse-tung May Have Owed to Dziga Vertov.\u201d Transcultural Studies (2014\/1): 8-94. https:\/\/journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/index.php\/transcultural\/article\/view\/13129<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cRube Stories and Paradigmatic Crimes as Narrative Modulators at Thresholds of Cultural Change.\u201d In Roberto Gilodi and Luigi Marf\u00e8, ed.,\u00a0<\/span>Morphology and Historical Sequence. Cosmo: Comparative Studies in Modernism.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(Turin) 18 (2021): 83-93.<\/span><\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.ojs.unito.it\/index.php\/COSMO\/article\/view\/5917<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

“Aby Warburg and Cinema, Revisited.” New German Critique 139 (Feb. 2020): 105-40. https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/new-german-critique\/article-abstract\/47\/1%20(139)\/105\/151166\/Aby-Warburg-and-Cinema-Revisited?<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Guckt euch selbst an!\u2019 B\u00fcchner\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Woyzeck<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and the\u00a0<\/span>Pericope Adulterae<\/em>.\u201d In Robert Gillett and Ernest Schonfeld, eds.,\u00a0<\/span>Georg B\u00fcchner: Contemporary Perspectives<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Leiden: Brill, 2017), 79-91.<\/p>\n

\u201cFormulating a Thesis; or: Chaos and Cosmos.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Journal of the Core Curriculum<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>[Boston University], Number XXV (Spring 2016): 49-62.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ideological Antecedents of the First-Series Renminbi Worker-and-Peasant Banknote or What Mao Tse-tung May Have Owed to Dziga Vertov.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Transcultural Studies<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>1 (2014): 8-94.<\/p>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/index.php\/transcultural\/article\/view\/13129<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019I\u2019ll burn my books!\u2019\u00a0 Faust(s), Magic, Media.\u201d\u00a0 In Simon Richter and Richard A. Block, eds.,\u00a0<\/span>Goethe\u2019s Ghosts and the Persistence of Literature; Essays in Honor of Jane K. Brown<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>(Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013), 186-214.<\/p>\n

\u201cClarus, Woyzeck, and the Politics of Accountability.\u201d\u00a0 In Matthew Wilson Smith, ed.,\u00a0<\/span>Georg B\u00fcchner: The Major Works<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(New York: Norton, 2012), 368-73.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Void at the Center of Things: Figures of Identity in Michael Haneke\u2019s \u2018Glaciation\u2019 Trilogy.\u201d\u00a0 In\u00a0<\/span>A Companion to Michael Haneke<\/em>, ed. Roy Grundmann (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 337-353.<\/p>\n

\u201cAby Warburgs Kriegskartothek. Vorbericht einer Rekonstruktion.\u201d\u00a0 In\u00a0<\/span>Kasten 117. Aby Warburg und der Aberglaube im Ersten Weltkrieg<\/em>, ed. Gottfried Korff (T\u00fcbingen: T\u00fcbinger Vereinigung f\u00fcr Volkskunde, 2008), 39-69.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy Did Goethe Marry When He Did?\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Goethe Yearbook<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>15 (2008): 115-130.<\/p>\n

\u201cGermans are to Greeks as French are to Romans: Metamorphoses of a Topos in German Literature, 1755-1819.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Myths, Foundation Texts and Imagined Communities<\/em>, ed. Martin Prochazka & Ondrej Pilny (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005), 207-225.<\/p>\n

\u201cEduard\u2019s Egotism: Historical Notes on Goethe\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Elective Affinities<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The Germanic Review<\/em>, Vol. 76, Nr. 1 (Winter 2001): 41-68.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Unpublished Essay by Goethe? \u2018Staatssachen. \u00dcber m\u00fcndliche deutsche Rechtspflege in\u00a0 Deutschland\u2019.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Germanic Review<\/em>, Vol. 73, Nr. 2 (Spring 1998): 107-131.<\/p>\n

REVIEW ESSAY<\/h3>\n

\u201cGoethe at 251.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The Germanic Review<\/em>, Vol. 75, Nr. 4 (Fall 2000): 323-326 [review of: W. Daniel Wilson,\u00a0<\/span>Das Goethe-Tabu: Protest und Menschenrechte im klassischen Weimar;\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Karl Hugo Pruys,\u00a0<\/span>Die Liebkosungen des Tigers. Eine erotische Goethe-Biographie;\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Nicholas Boyle,\u00a0<\/span>Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Vol. 2: Revolution and Renunciation (1790-1803)<\/em>]<\/p>\n

BOOK REVIEWS<\/h3>\n

Martin D\u00f6nike,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Pathos, Ausdruck und Bewegung. Zur \u00c4sthetik des Weimarer Klassizismus 1796-1806<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Monatshefte\u00a0<\/span><\/em>99, Nr. 4 (Winter 2007): 571-573.<\/p>\n

Werner Schlick,\u00a0<\/span>Goethe\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Die Wahlverwandtschaften:\u00a0<\/span>A Middle-Class Critique of Aesthetic Aristocratism<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Monatshefte<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>96, Nr. 2 (Summer 2004): 292-294.<\/p>\n

Jutta Linder,\u00a0<\/span>\u2018Falsche Tendenzen\u2019. Der Staatsdiener Goethe und der Dichter<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Lessing Yearbook<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>XXXV (2003): 338-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15854,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/377\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}