Tracing Subversive Currents In Goethe S Wilhelm Meister S Apprenticeship

Author : John Thomas Blair
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130926

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Tracing Subversive Currents in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by John Thomas Blair Pdf

Fresh critical reading of Goethe's important novel, challenging orthodox scholarship. In this new reading of Goethe's most influential novel Blair's close attention to the text brings startling insights to light, often taking issue with received critical opinions. He shows, for example, that Goethe slyly introducedmaterial full of low-cultural, subversive vitality that mocks conservative, authoritarian power interested in conformity or propriety. The novel does not just find fault with developments of the late Enlightenment but rather seductively describes loci of resistance to them: the marketplace, the travelling theatre, the Hanswurst. Equally, the author argues that although 'high' aesthetics, morals, institutions and rationality are impugned, they are not completely discredited: the problem with such high principles is demonstrated as being their tendency to present themselves as the only valid voice.

Author : Sarah V. Eldridge,Allen Speight
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190859282

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Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Philosophy by Sarah V. Eldridge,Allen Speight Pdf

In the decades after its publication, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship served as a touchstone for such major philosophical and literary figures as Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, and Schlegel, and was widely understood to be one of the greatest novels of the German canon. But in the decades and centuries following, the attention it has received in both disciplines has diminished in comparison to either Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther or his Elective Affinities. This volume follows the impetus of its early respondents to examine deeply what exactly Goethe's long and complicated novel is doing, and how it engages with problems and themes of human life. An interdisciplinary group of eminent scholars grapple with the novel's engagement with central philosophical questions such as individuality, development, and authority; aesthetic formation and narrative (and human) contingency; and gender, sexuality, and marriage. That these questions and their working-through in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre are in tension with one another speaks ultimately to how literature explores philosophical questions in ways that are open-ended, creative, and contain potential for new and different solutions to living with them. This unique philosophical approach to the form and purpose of a literary masterpiece illuminates new inroads into a novel at once famously complex and influential, and into the projects of one Germany's greatest writers.

Author : Jane Veronica Curran
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131183

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Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Jane Veronica Curran Pdf

The first detailed reader's commentary on one of the seminal works of world literature. Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre is commonly acknowledged to have played a pivotal role in founding the genre known as the Bildungsroman. Although a wealth of critical material has accumulated since its publication in 1795-96, a detailed commentary in English on this novel of `apprenticeship' has been lacking from the corpus. Jane V. Curran's full-length commentary fills this gap. In her analysis, Curran presents the standard material familiar from traditional commentaries, but includes passages hitherto neglected, presenting new insights in a new form. Curran stresses the importance of narrative techniques, traces the development of the characters, and draws the reader'sattention to the intertextual echoes, the use of symbols, and the many instances of irony. Curran also points out parallels between Wilhelm Meister's experiences and Goethe's life, and illuminates contemporary issues that are touched on in the novel, particularly the development of the German theater. The book provides notes with additional information for the interpretation of Goethe's work, including factual details of general interest, scholarly sources, and background information. This is a vade mecum not only for students of Goethe and of German literature, but also for all those interested in the development of the Bildungsroman. Jane V. Curran is chair of the German Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Author : Frederick Amrine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108477680

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Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman by Frederick Amrine Pdf

A fresh reading of the Willhelm Meister novels that dismisses the notion of the Bildungsroman to reveal unities between the texts.

Author : John Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351191975

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The Present Word. Culture, Society and the Site of Literature by John Walker Pdf

"This book addresses three key areas of intellectual enquiry: literary criticism, cultural critique, and philosophical theology. Once closely related, especially in the Catholic tradition, they often appear to be separate and unconnected domains in the modern university. The work of Nicholas Boyle is one of the most significant recent attempts to reconnect them. Responding to that initiative, The Present Word challenges this fragmentation of knowledge. Several of the essays reflect a major change of emphasis in literary studies over the last two decades: the reconnection of an idea of literary criticism closely related to the experience of reading, and the wider societal and political concerns addressed by Cultural Studies. Contributors also debate, from both perspectives, whether theological concepts can illuminate the secular culture in which literature is written and read. John Walker is Senior Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, London, where he served as Head of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture from 2006-2009."

Author : Lesley Sharpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521665604

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The Cambridge Companion to Goethe by Lesley Sharpe Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a stimulating and accessible survey of this many-sided figure. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a separate chapter on Faust), prose fiction and autobiography. A wide-ranging survey of reception inside and outside Germany and an extensive guide to further reading round off this volume, which will appeal to students and specialists alike.

Author : Melvyn New,Robert Bernasconi,Richard A. Cohen
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0896724514

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In Proximity by Melvyn New,Robert Bernasconi,Richard A. Cohen Pdf

In a world in which everything is reduced "to the play of signs detached from what is signified," Levinas asks a deceptively simple question: Whence, then, comes the urge to question injustice? By seeing the demand for justice for the other—the homeless, the destitute—as a return to morality, Levinas escapes the suspect finality of any ideology.Levinas’s question is one starting point for In Proximity, a collection of seventeen essays by scholars in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, history, and religion, and their readings of Spinoza, Kant, Goethe, Wordsworth, Behn, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Diderot, Laclos, and Mendelssohn. The title In Proximity alone speaks volumes about Levinas’s philosophy and its relevance today. "If it is true that we are, through technology, moving closer and closer to one another," writes editor Melvyn New, then "the importance of proximity and our response to it cannot be overstated." For the contributors to this volume, the question of whether we may, ethically, appropriate the object of study for our own causes has become vital. Levinas asks us to see ourselves, our own reading, "in proximity" to what is not ourselves, not our understanding of the world.The dialogue created among the essays themselves establishes an enormous diversity of texts and ideologies to which Levinas can contribute something of significant value. At a time when the secondary literature on Levinas and his work is expanding explosively, the cross-disciplinary voices gathered together in In Proximity come at precisely the right time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004362215

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The Radical Enlightenment in Germany by Anonim Pdf

This volume investigates the impact of Radical Enlightenment thought on German culture during the eighteenth century. It takes recent work by Jonathan Israel as its point of departure and debates the precise nature of Enlightenment.

Author : Lauren Nossett
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810139312

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The Virginal Mother in German Culture by Lauren Nossett Pdf

The Virginal Mother in German Culture presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the complex social ideal of woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the creation of a unique figure in German literature: the virginal mother. At the same time, she shows that the literary depictions of virginal mothers correspond to vilified biological mother figures, which point to a perceived threat in the long nineteenth century of the mother’s procreative power. Examining the virginal mother in the first novel by a German woman (Sophie von La Roche), canonical texts by Goethe, nineteenth-century popular fiction, autobiographical works, and Thea von Harbou’s novel Metropolis and Fritz Lang’s film by the same name, this book highlights the virginal mother at pivotal moments in German history and cultural development: the entrance of women into the literary market, the Goethezeit, the foundation of the German Empire, and the volatile Weimar Republic. The Virginal Mother in German Culture will be of interest to students and scholars of German literature, history, cultural and social studies, and women’s studies.

Author : Joseph D. O’Neil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501315046

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Figures of Natality by Joseph D. O’Neil Pdf

Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary. Using Hannah Arendt's concept of natality, Joseph O'Neil argues that Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist see birth as challenging paradigms of Romanticism as well as of Enlightenment, resisting the assimilation of the political to economics, science, or morality. They choose instead to preserve the conflicts and tensions at the heart of social, political, and poetic revolutions. In a historical reading, these tensions evolve from the idea of revolution as Arendt reads it in British North America to the social and economic questions that shape the French Revolution, culminating in a consideration of the culture of the modern republic as such. Alongside this geopolitical evolution, the ways of representing the political change, too, moving from the new as revolutionary eruption to economic metaphors of birth. More pressing still is the question of revolutionary subjectivity and political agency, and Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist have an answer that is remarkably close to that of Walter Benjamin, as that “secret index” through which each past age is “pointed toward redemption.” Figures of Natality uncovers this index at the heart of scenes and products of birth in the age of Goethe.

Author : Simon Richter,Daniel Purdy
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133143

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Goethe Yearbook 15 by Simon Richter,Daniel Purdy Pdf

New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800.

Author : Karin Lynn Schutjer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aesthetics, German
ISBN : 0814329683

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Narrating Community After Kant by Karin Lynn Schutjer Pdf

This book will prove insightful to students and scholars interested in German literary, philosophical, and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eleanor E. Ter Horst
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015056303566

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Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, and the Transformation of Gender by Eleanor E. Ter Horst Pdf

The presence of such gender-ambiguous figures as hermaphrodites and Amazons in works by Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist continues to challenge perceptions of the Enlightenment and Classical periods of German literature. This book explores the conflicting definitions of masculinity and femininity in works by these authors from the perspective of current research in feminist and gender studies, and links varying representations of gender to aesthetic issues, such as the texts' relationship to the literature of antiquity and distinctions between drama and narrative. Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, and the Transformation of Gender also explores the literature's connections to extra-literary (medical and economic) discourses, while establishing that issues of gender are central to the aesthetic and practice of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist.

Author : Simon J. Richter,Simon Richter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571133372

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Goethe Yearbook 14 by Simon J. Richter,Simon Richter Pdf

Focuses on childhood in the Age of Goethe, in addition to various other topics and works. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 14 features a special section on childhood in the Age of Goethe, co-edited with Anthony Krupp. In addition, readers will find two essays illuminating Goethe's Triumph der Empfindsamkeit, an inspired reading of Das Märchen against the background of Goethe's critique of Newtonian science, a careful analysis of the daemonic in the poem "Mächtiges Überraschen," and essays on Egmont and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. Contributors: Kelly Barry, Paul Fleming, Edgar Landgraf, Liliane Weissberg, Angus Nicholls, Robin A. Clouser Simon J. Richter is Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, and book review editor Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German at Rutgers University. Anthony Krupp is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Miami.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015067435472

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South Atlantic Review by Anonim Pdf