Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sullivan, Heather I
• Shinkle, James

Titel

The Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe's Plants in Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären and Triumph der Empfindsamkeit

Ist Teil von

• Goethe yearbook, 2019, Vol.26 (1), p.141-162

Ort / Verlag

Rochester: North American Goethe Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Since the Industrial Revolution, the Anthropocene's global ecological calamities, such as climate change, widespread toxins, and mass species extinction, are occurring on such a vast scale that scholars in environmental studies face significant challenges when seeking to represent and respond to them in a meaningful and fathomable manner. [...]his Wertherian revelry dedicated to immersion in a green world actually means a celebration of indoor potted plants and artificial stars, created smells, and carpets of sylvan décor, since he cannot abide the temperature fluctuation, weather, and insects found outdoors in the grass and forests. [...]acts 5 and 6 return to the indoor spaces of the large hall and then the indoor "Wald und Laube" (forest and arbor) where all finally is revealed and the king and queen are reunited. [...]in reporting his initial attempts to discover the substances regulating plant growth, biologist F. W Went used the equally generic term "Wuchsstoff" (growth substance) (whereas Goethe spoke of "Säfte" or "juices").32 Hence, the fundamental leaf form as the basis for the transformation into other plant organs has borne fruit, as it were, in terms of our knowledge at this time, in the twenty-first century.