UID:
almahu_9949865543302882
Format:
1 online resource (xxviii, 408 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009036436 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Literature in context
Content:
One of the most prolific and versatile writers of all time, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) made an impact that continues to extend far beyond his native Germany. The variety of human questions and experiences treated in his works is arguably without parallel. He also had (for his era) an unusually long life, which spanned the French Revolution, the end of the Holy Roman Empire and subsequent reshaping of the German-speaking world, and the rapid onset of industrial modernity. In thirty-seven short essays, leading international scholars explore Goethe's life and times, his literary works, his activity in the realms of art, philosophy and natural science, his reception of - and indeed by - other cultures, and, finally, the resonance of his work in our time. The aim of this collection is to open as many windows as possible onto Goethe's wide-ranging intellectual and practical activity, and to give a sense of his ongoing importance.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2024).
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Introduction / Charlotte Lee -- The life / Nicholas Boyle -- Frankfurt and Weimar / Joachim Whaley -- Weimar court and society / Astrid Köhler -- Goethe as civil servant / Stephanie Galasso -- Class / Matthew Bell -- The French Revolution / W. Daniel Wilson -- Religion / Yael Almog -- Poetry / Charlotte Lee -- Drama / Thomas Martinec -- Prose / Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge -- Faust / T. J. Reed -- Wilhelm Meister / Frederick Amrine -- Classicism / Steffan Davies -- Romanticism / Stefan Matuschek -- Greek and Roman art / Katherine Harloe -- Goethe's drawings / Petra Maisak -- Goethe the collector / Catriona MacLeod -- Goethe and the invention of the Weimar landscape / Liliane Weissberg -- Goethe and philosophy / Willi Goetschel -- Goethe's improper mode of thought / Clark S. Muenzer -- Goethe and German idealism / Gabriel Trop -- Morphology / Claudia Nitschke -- Colour theory / Gerhard Lauer -- Geology / Jennifer Caisley -- Italy / Grazia Pulvirenti and Renata Gambino -- Britain / Anne Bohnenkamp -- France / Robert Vilain -- Iran / Amir Irani-Tehrani -- China / Johannes D. Kaminski -- America / Daniel Carranza -- Weltliteratur (World literature) / Angus Nicholls -- Faust and modernity / Michael Jaeger -- Goethe's portrayal of love : family, same-sex and non-exclusive / Susan E. Gustafson -- Goethe and the musical world / Mark Austin -- Goethe and our endangered natural world / Heather I. Sullivan -- Goethe out of context / Seán M. Williams -- Postscript : oracle bones / Frederick Amrine.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781316511039
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036436
