Monday, October 30, 2006
This morning before skipping downstairs to Dr. Reed's class, I approached Der Grair Bär with the suggestion that my topic for independent study be something related to the origins or manifestations of German philhellinism ("Gräkomanie" auf der Erklärung"). He seemed enthused about and entirely amenable to this idea.
After my classes I returned to my usual post outside his and Dr. Lavigne's offices, in order to read further into the first chapter of one of ten books related to German literature I checked out from the library Saturday afternoon. Around one-thirty Dr. Grair handed me a warm print-out: an article he published a couple of years ago for the Goethe Yearbook: "The Poetics of National Liberation: Wilhelm Müller's Lieder der Griechen", which discusses the poems' impact on German attitudes toward the Greek War of Independence. I recall being especially interested in this aspect of the Enlightenment when we studied it for a short time during European history class in high school. Taking the German perspective will make for viel Spaß.
I deflowered The Decline and Fall of Virgil in Eighteenth-Century Germany: THE REPRESSED MUSE this afternoon, which is to express, that it is a newly-received and never here-to-fore checked-out book from the Texas Tech University library that I have now commenced reading. I believe I will break the hymens of four more of the total ten aforementioned before the end of the semester sometime. The other five were published before either of my parents were born, ich glaube.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 2:48 PM]