Search Constraints

Start Over
Filtering by: Creator Thomas, Gerald Evan Remove constraint Creator: Thomas, Gerald Evan Creator Hahn, Andre M. Remove constraint Creator: Hahn, Andre M. License All rights reserved Remove constraint License: All rights reserved

Search Results

  • Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

    Creator:
    Hahn, Andre M.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Full Text:
    provided the first chance for me to write about Goethe in one of his seminars. Anita Guerrini, Evan

  • The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

    Creator:
    Hahn, Andre M.
    Abstract:
    This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    of Knowledge, or the Overgrowth of Nomenclature,” Goethe Yearbook 17 (2010): 153-177; Thomas