Format:
Online-Ressource (324 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781571138781
Series Statement:
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Content:
Invoking Goethe's name has become fashionable again. With new methods and technologies of reading threatening to render literature virtual and insubstantial, we have the sense that ""Goethe's ghosts"" - otherwise neglected voices and traditions that, finding their most trenchant expression in Goethe, inform the Western storehouse of literature - can show us long-forgotten dimensions of literature. Inspired by the distinguished Goethe scholar Jane Brown, whose life's work has called attention to the allegorical modes haunting modern literature, the contributors to this volume take a rich variet
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Description based upon print version of record
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Frontcover; Contents; Introduction-Ghosts and the Machine: Reading with Jane Brown; Part I: The Ghosts of Goethe's Past; 1: Egologies: Goethe, Entoptics, and the Instruments of Writing Life; 2: Goethe's Haunted Architectural Idea; 3: "Über allen Gipfeln": The Poem as Hieroglyph; 4: Goethe's Hauskapelle and Sacred Choral Music; 5: From Haunting Visions to Revealing (Self-)Reflections: The Goethean Hero between Subject and Object; Part II: The Ghost That Keeps on Giving; 6: Mephisto or the Spirit of Laughter; 7: Shipwreck with Spectators: Ideologies of Observation in Goethe's Faust II
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8: Constructing the Nation: Volk, Kulturnation, and Eros in Faust9: Gretchen's Ghosts: Goethe, Adorno, and the Literature of Refuge; 10: "I'll burn my books!": Faust(s), Magic, Media; Part III: Spirited Encounters; 11: The Imagination of Freedom: Goethe and Hegel as Contemporaries; 12: Effacement vs. Exposure of the Poetic Act: Philosophy and Literature as Producers of "History" (Hegel vs. Goethe); 13: Toward an Environmental Aesthetics: Depicting Nature in the Age of Goethe; 14: "Ein heimlich Ding": The Self as Object in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
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15: "Ja, Goethe über alles und immer!": Benn's "Double Life" in His Letters to F. W. Oelze (1932-56)Bibliography of Jane K. Brown's Publications; Notes on the Contributors; Index; Backcover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571135674
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571135674
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1571135677
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Goethe's Ghosts Reading and the Persistence of Literature
Language:
English
Keywords:
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