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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9781879751026
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Languages : de
Pages : 302

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Author: Thomas P. Saine
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571131218
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : de
Pages : 382

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Latest volume in series devoted to Goethe criticism (and studies of his contemporaries), with an extensive book review section.

Author: Goethe Society of North America
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ISBN: 9781571133144
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Languages : en
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Author: Daniel Purdy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781283011204
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Languages : en
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Author: Daniel Purdy
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571134257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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This is the 17th volume of a series which provides criticism on works by Goethe. It contains readings of Goethe's works and perspectives on Goethe as a writer.

Author: Angus Nicholls
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317817222
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the most important German theorist of myth of the second half of the twentieth century, and his Work on Myth (1979) has resonated across disciplines ranging from literary theory, via philosophy, religious studies and anthropology, to the history and philosophy of science. Nicholls introduces Anglophone readers to Blumenberg’s biography and to his philosophical contexts. He elucidates Blumenberg’s theory of myth by relating it to three important developments in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German philosophy (hermeneutics, phenomenology and philosophical anthropology), while also comparing Blumenberg’s ideas with those of other prominent theorists of myth such as Vico, Hume, Schelling, Max Müller, Frazer, Sorel, Freud, Cassirer, Heidegger, Horkheimer and Adorno. According to Nicholls, Blumenberg’s theory of myth can only be understood in relation to the ‘human sciences,’ since it emerges from a speculative hypothesis concerning the emergence of the earliest human beings. For Blumenberg, myth was originally a cultural adaptation that constituted the human attempt to deal with anxieties concerning the threatening forces of nature by anthropomorphizing those forces into mythic images. In the final two chapters, Blumenberg’s theory of myth is placed within the post-war political context of West Germany. Through a consideration of Blumenberg’s exchanges with Carl Schmitt, as well as by analysing unpublished correspondence and parts of the original Work of Myth manuscript that Blumenberg held back from publication, Nicholls shows that Blumenberg’s theory of myth also amounted to a reckoning with the legacy of National Socialism.

Author: B. Venkat Mani
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823273423
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association Winner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies. From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of “bibliomigrancy”—the physical and virtual movement of books—Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation’s relationship with print culture—a Faustian pact with books. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to the Nazi magazine Weltliteratur, to the European Digital Library, Mani reveals the political foundations for a history of world literature that is at once a philosophical ideal, a process of exchange, a mode of reading, and a system of classification. Shifting current scholarship’s focus from the academic to the general reader, from the university to the public sphere, Recoding World Literature argues that world literature is culturally determined, historically conditioned, and politically charged.

Author: Joel B. Lande
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501727133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary historical inquiry, showing that the fool was not a distraction from attempts to establish a serious dramatic tradition in the German language. Instead, the fool was both a fixture on the stage and a nearly ubiquitous theme in an array of literary critical, governmental, moral-philosophical, and medical discourses, figuring centrally in broad-based efforts to assign laughter a proper time, place, and proportion in society. Persistence of Folly reveals the fool as a cornerstone of the dynamic process that culminated in the works of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. By reorienting the history of German theater, Lande’s work conclusively shows that the highpoint of German literature around 1800 did not eliminate irreverent jest in the name of serious drama, but instead developed highly refined techniques for integrating the comic tradition of the stage fool.

Author: Sara Munson Deats
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847585X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.

Author: Jane K. Brown
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9781879751491
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Like Faust itself, the volume offers neither closed structure nor final conclusions, but illustrates and elaborates the richness of the work.