Richter / Block Goethe's Ghosts

Reading and the Persistence of Literature
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-57113-878-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 141, 322 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

New essays from leading Goethe scholars providing testimony to the continuing, even renewed, relevance of Goethe for literary studies today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richter, Simon

Block, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction-Ghosts and the Machine: Reading with Jane Brown
Egologies: Goethe, Entoptics, and the Instruments of Writing Life
Goethe's Haunted Architectural Idea
"Über allen Gipfeln": The Poem as Hieroglyph
Goethe's Hauskapelle and Sacred Choral Music
From Haunting Visions to Revealing (Self-)Reflections: The Goethean Hero between Subject and Object
Mephisto or the Spirit of Laughter
Shipwreck with Spectators: Ideologies of Observation in Goethe's Faust II
Constructing the Nation: Volk, Kulturnation, and Eros in Faust
Gretchen's Ghosts: Goethe, Adorno, and the Literature of Refuge
"I'll burn my books!": Faust(s), Magic, Media
The Imagination of Freedom: Goethe and Hegel as Contemporaries
Effacement vs. Exposure of the Poetic Act: Philosophy and Literature as Producers of "History" (Hegel vs. Goethe)
Toward an Environmental Aesthetics: Depicting Nature in the Age of Goethe
"Ein heimlich Ding": The Self as Object in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
"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