This year's volume is highlighted by a special section on Goethe's narrative events in addition to a range of other articles from emerging and established scholars.The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 26 features a special section on Goethe's narrative events, with contributions on "Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe's "Ballade" vs. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann," "The Absence of Events in Die Wahlverwandtschaften," and "Countering Catastrophe: Goethe's Novelle in the Aftershock of Kleist." This issue also showcases work presented atthe 2017 Atkins Goethe Conference (Re-Orientations around Goethe), including contributions by Eva Geulen on morphology and W. Daniel Wilson on the Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich. In addition there are articles by emerging and established scholars on Klopstock, Schiller, Goethe and objects, dark green ecology, and texts of the Goethezeit and beyond through the lens of world literature. Book reviews conclude the volume. Contributors: Lisa Marie Anderson, Thomas O. Beebee, Fritz Breithaupt, Christopher Chiasson, Patrick Fortmann, Sean Franzel, Eva Geulen, Willi Goetschel, Stefan Hajduk, Samuel Heidepriem, Bryan Klausmeyer, Lea Pao, Elizabeth Powers, James Shinkle, Heather I. Sullivan, Christian P. Weber, W. Daniel Wilson, Karin A. Wurst. The Goethe Yearbook is edited, beginning with this volume, by Patricia Anne Simpson, Professor of German and Chairperson of Modern Languages at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Birgit Tautz, George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College. Book Review Editor is Sean Franzel, Associate Professor of German at the University ofMissouri-Columbia.

REORIENTATIONS AROUND GOETHE IMorphologie und gegenständliches Denken - Eva GeulenREORIENTATIONS AROUND GOETHE II"Global Mission": The Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich - W. Daniel WilsonSPECIAL SECTION on GOETHE'S NARRATIVE EVENTSWhat Is an Event for Goethe? - Fritz BreithauptMuch Ado about Nothing? The Absence of Events in Die Wahlverwandtschaften - Christopher ChiassonCountering Catastrophe: Goethe's Novelle in the Aftershock of Heinrich von Kleist - Lisa Marie AndersonNarrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe's "Ballade" versus Hoffmann's Der Sandmann - Christian P. WeberRemembering Klopstock's Mitausdruck - Lea PaoStrategic Indecision: Gender and Bureaucracy in Schiller's Maria Stuart - Samuel HeidepriemThe Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe's Plants in Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären and Triumph der Empfindsamkeit - Heather I. SullivanThe Dark Green in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe's Plants in Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären and Triumph der Empfindsamkeit - James ShinkleAbschlussbewegungen: Goethe, Freud, and Spectral Forms of Life - Bryan KlausmeyerEin Mythos und sein doppelter Entzug des Modernen: Prämissen für einen Ausweg aus der Unübersichtlichkeit der Faustforschung - Stefan HajdukJohann Wolfgang von Goethe in Conversation with Things - Karin A. WurstWorld Literature Turns Political, 1835/36: The Early Afterlife of Goethe's Pronouncement in German Cultural-Politics and in the Young Germany Movement - Patrick FortmannFritz Strich and the Dilemmas of World Literature Today - Elizabeth PowersA Jewish Faust Commentary: Notes on Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption - Willi GoetschelFrom Idylle to idílio: Mário de Andrade's Parody of Hermann und Dorothea - Thomas O. BeebeeKoselleck's Timely Goethe? - Sean FranzelBook Reviews