Goethe's ghosts : reading and the persistence of literature
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Goethe's ghosts : reading and the persistence of literature
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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New essays from leading Goethe scholars providing testimony to the continuing, even renewed, relevance of Goethe for literary studies today.
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" - the 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 the mimetic forms that dominate modern literature, the contributors to this volume take a rich variety of approaches to Goethe: cultural studies, history ofthe book, semiotics, deconstruction, colonial studies, feminism, childhood studies, and eco-criticism. The persistence, omnipresence, and modalities of the "ghosts" they find suggest that more than influence or standards is at issue here. The stubborn reappearance of these revenants testifies to more fundamental issues concerning the status of literature and the task of the reader. As the contributors demonstrate, these questions acquire renewed urgency inwriters as diverse as Hegel, Adorno, Benn, Droste-Hulshoff, and Nietzsche. Each of the essays testifies to the enduring salience and presence of Goethe.
Contributors: Helmut Ammerlahn, Benjamin Bennett, Dieter Borchmeyer, Franz-Josef Deiters, Richard T. Gray, Martha B. Helfer, Meredith Lee, Clark Muenzer, Andrew Piper, Jurgen Schroeder, Peter J. Schwartz, Patricia Anne Simpson, Robert Deam Tobin, David E. Wellbery, Sabine Wilke.
SimonRichter is Professor of German Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Richard Block is Associate Professor of German at the University of Washington.
Table of Contents
Introduction-Ghosts and the Machine: Reading with Jane Brown
Egologies: Goethe, Entoptics, and the Instruments of Writing Life
Goethe's Haunted Architectural Idea
"UEber 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-Hulshoff
"Ja, Goethe uber 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
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