Goethe as woman : the undoing of literature
著者
書誌事項
Goethe as woman : the undoing of literature
（Kritik : German literary theory and cultural studies）
Wayne State University Press, c2001
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A new approach to understanding Goethe that offers fresh insights into some of his most important works. The most celebrated of German poets, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is today as much an institution as a writer. This innovative study shows unexpected relations between Goethe the artist and "Goethe" the posthumous tradition, and considers the radical historical metamorphosis of his textual being. Drawing on a lifetime of reading and reflecting on Goethe, Benjamin Bennett focuses on that writer's own struggle with the idea of reading, and with an understanding of the "wrongness" of literature that opens onto the possibility of woman as a needful destabilizing factot. Bennett shows that even in his early writing Goethe exhibits a highly developed theoretical resistance against both the aesthetic and the national aspects of what was understood as literature in his time, an attitude that would lead him to experiment with gender difference as a means of staking out new literary positions.
Bennett revlews a number of Goethe's works, offering a bold new interpretation of Werther, fresh insights into Die naturliche Tochter, and an assessment of Die Wahlverwandtschaften that reveals Goethe's feminine voice. He establishes important parallels between Goethe's position and that of modern radical feminism regarding the problem of literary revolution, uncovering a web of suggestions that spreads throughout Goethe's work and the history of reading. Engaging a wide range of prominent thinkers from Nietzsche and Freud to Derrida and Irigaray, Bennett shows the centrality of Goethe to today's literary issues. His book offers Goethe scholars new grist for ongoing consideration of the author's work.
目次
- Part I: Man and the Problem of Reading
- 1. Werther and Montaigne Reading in the Aesthetic Sense
- 2. Werther: Double Perspective and the Game of Life
- 3. Egmont as a Politician
- 4. Prometheus and Saturn: The Three Versions of Gotz von Berlichingen
- Part II: The Undoing of Literature
- 5. Lotte's Name and Lotte's Body
- 6. Heroes and Fleabags and Women: Gender and Representation in Penthesilea
- 7. Guerrilla Warfare: Goethe and the Future of Literature
- 8. Bridge, Against Nothing: Nietzsche as Woman
- 9. Goethe and the Possibility of a Feminist Literary Project
- 10. Goethe in "Goethe": The Primal Scene
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