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Goethe's Ghosts
Simon Richter
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Description for Goethe's Ghosts
Hardcover.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135674
SKU
V9781571135674
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Ref
99-50
Reviews for Goethe's Ghosts
[The editors] provide a complex introduction . . . . [T]he essays [are] all by renowned scholars who possess broad comparative expertise. . . . Recommended.
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If the introduction by the editors bears the subtitle 'Reading with Jane Brown,' and the volume as a whole, in allusion to Brown's 2007 monograph on allegory, the subtitle Reading and ... Read more
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If the introduction by the editors bears the subtitle 'Reading with Jane Brown,' and the volume as a whole, in allusion to Brown's 2007 monograph on allegory, the subtitle Reading and ... Read more