Reading Goethe: A Critical Introduction to the Literary Work - Couverture rigide

Swales, Martin; Swales, Erika

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1571130950 ISBN 13 : 9781571130952

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2001

Synopsis

The year 1999 saw the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer. Appropriately, literary scholars within Germany and beyond paid tribute to this remarkable talent. But a number of commentators also noted that Goethe is often revered rather than read, known of rather than known. It is the aim of this study to provide a corrective to this state of affairs. The authors concentrate on the literary work and offer analyses that represent an impassioned, but by no means uncritical, advocacy -- one that seeks to persuade both academic critics and general readers alike that Goethe is one of the key figures of European modernity. To an extent that is virtually unique in modern literature, Goethe was active in a whole number of literary genres. He was a superb poet, unrivaled in the variety of his expressive modes, and in his ability to combine intellectual sophisticationwithexperiential immediacy. He also wrote short stories and novels throughout his life, ranging from the The Sorrows of Young Werther, to The Elective Affinities. He was also a highly skilled dramatist, both in the historical mode and in the classical verse-drama. Above all else, Goethe is the author of Faust: a workthat attempts -- and achieves -- more than any other modern European drama. Erica Swales is College Lecturer and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Martin Swales is Professor of German at University College London.

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Erika Swales is Lecturer and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Martin Swales is Professor of German at University College London. Of late he has published extensively on German prose writings of the 19th century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1571130950
• ISBN 13: 9781571130952
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
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