tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6380629899360381660..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Jeremias Gotthelf's The Black Spider - long-legged, poisonous, and countlessAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-89207992813896730992008-07-03T11:22:00.000-05:002008-07-03T11:22:00.000-05:00Incomplete translations? Others only in manuscript...Incomplete translations? Others only in manuscript? Weird. It's like a novel. What are they hiding from us?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-27066638378918311402008-06-27T01:54:00.000-05:002008-06-27T01:54:00.000-05:00Will, I looked around for the anthology of 19-Cent...Will, I looked around for the anthology of 19-Century Gothic stories that you mentioned but didn't find it. I did find a paper that Waidson published in 1948 about Gotthelf in English ('Jeremias Gotthelf's Reception in Britain and America', Modern Language Review 43 [1948]). He mentions a translation of <BR/>Black Spider by B. Q. Morgan, a German professor at the Univ of Wisconsin. However, Waidson says he read the manuscript of the translation. I don't think it was ever published. <BR/><BR/>Also of interest is a 1973 Penguin horror anthology edited by Peter Haining. It's called Great Tales of Terror From Europe and America and its contents are listed at http://tinyurl.com/5z7ngn<BR/><BR/>It includes Tieck's 'Bride of the Grave' and de la Motte Fouque's 'Field of Blood', as well as stories by Goethe, Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and some 19th-Century Germans whose names weren't familiar to me.praymonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09799593980838361293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-3670197967093409952008-06-25T18:14:00.000-05:002008-06-25T18:14:00.000-05:00I missed this discussion too (yet another one), bu...I missed this discussion too (yet another one), but I'll now link this back to my Black Spider posts. Edwin Frank at NYRB mentioned that the version you & I read (in Three Eerie Tales) isn't complete. I plan to compare it closely to the Waidson/Calder translation to figure out what exactly was cut. It sucks that this isn't mentioned anywhere on the book.<BR/><BR/>Also, I was in touch with someone (somewhere) who said she read The Black Spider in an anthology of 19th century Gothic stories or novellas. She couldn't remember the name of the anthology (or the translator). I plan to research it soon.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05799869059793681283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-59037590695046596972008-04-24T09:48:00.000-05:002008-04-24T09:48:00.000-05:00I've read a single, three paragraph story by Rober...I've read a single, three paragraph story by Robert Walser. He's in the Must Read category. I haven't read Ramuz, either, but I was led to his existence, as to many things, by a single reference in Sebald. For details, see here: http://sebald.wordpress.com/category/cf-ramuz/Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-42313832626388303562008-04-24T01:13:00.000-05:002008-04-24T01:13:00.000-05:00I should have thought to mention Robert Walser bef...I should have thought to mention Robert Walser before - have you read him? Definitely a Swiss fellow not to be missed. Jacob von Gunten is a twisty, forlorn tale. And if you're interested in more folkloric stuff, Ramuz might be someone you'd enjoy. He was big on exploring the idea of the noble peasant, romanticizing nature and common people. <BR/>I will have a look for Gotthelf.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-17937263154236106532008-04-23T16:21:00.000-05:002008-04-23T16:21:00.000-05:00I like your positive attitude. I somehow had assum...I like your positive attitude. I somehow had assumed there would be a lot more non-academic semi-specialists. Anyone know a Renaissance/ early modern litblog, one that isn't entirely about conference scheduling? 'Cause that's all I've found.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-8822592160226672472008-04-22T17:42:00.000-05:002008-04-22T17:42:00.000-05:00Hello there. I just wanted to say thanks for stop...Hello there. I just wanted to say thanks for stopping by my blog and thanks for the encouraging words about taking on the canon. <BR/><BR/>I was excited to see what you're doing over here at Wuthering Expectations, and I plan to stop by and read often. There's a much bigger classic literature community out here than I first realized!Justin Hammhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14960584050841295189noreply@blogger.com