Today’s post is on Dr. Owen Ware’s exceptional new translation of Novalis’s novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, a key text in early Romanticism. In addition to a beautiful translation, the new edition includes clear, readable, and detailed critical materials to help new readers of Novalis gain the most from this extraordinary text. In this post, I ask Dr.Continue reading “Owen Ware on Novalis’s novel “Heinrich von Ofterdingen””
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Karoline von Günderrode’s “Timur” and the Influence of Ossian
This post explores a strong stylistic and thematic influence on Günderrode’s work: the writings of legendary Scottish bard Ossian. For an English translation of Günderrode’s dramatic fragment “Mora” see Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings (OUP: forthcoming January-March 2026). A translation of the short story “Timur” is included at the end of this post. Versions of the original GermanContinue reading “Karoline von Günderrode’s “Timur” and the Influence of Ossian”
Shirking Your Responsibilities
Sarah Cameron is a multi-award winning painter and photographer with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art and a BFA from Edinburgh College of Art. At the time the pieces for this website were painted, she was working in oils on representations of the human-nature relationship. She was particularly interested in the perceivedContinue reading “Shirking Your Responsibilities”
Untitled painting (Günderrode; the unknown)
Sarah Cameron is a multi-award winning painter and photographer with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art and a BFA from Edinburgh College of Art. I commissioned this large, untitled piece at a time when Sarah was working, in conceptual terms, on paintings as repositories of emotions and, in technical terms, on theContinue reading “Untitled painting (Günderrode; the unknown)”
Friedrich’s Mountain, Botched Romance
Sarah Cameron is a multi-award winning painter and photographer with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art and a BFA from Edinburgh College of Art. At the time the pieces for this website were painted, she was working on representations of the human-nature relationship. She was particularly interested in the perceived boundary betweenContinue reading “Friedrich’s Mountain, Botched Romance”
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