Goethe's Faust And European Epic: Forgetting the Future - Couverture rigide

Bohm, Arnd

 
9781571133441: Goethe's Faust And European Epic: Forgetting the Future
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ISBN 10 : 1571133445 ISBN 13 : 9781571133441
Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Goethe has long been enshrined as the greatest German poet, but his admirers have always been uneasy with the idea that he did not produce a great epic poem. A master in all the other genres and modes, it has been felt, should have done so. Arnd Bohm proposes that Goethe did compose an epic poem, which has been hidden in plain view: Faust. Goethe saw that the Faust legends provided the stuff for a national epic: a German hero, a villain (Mephistopheles), a quest (to know all things), a sublime conflict (good versus evil), a love story (via Helen of Troy), and elasticity (all human knowledge could be accommodated by the plot). Bohm reveals the care with which Goethe draws upon such sources as Tasso, Ariosto, Dante, and Vergil. In the microcosm of the "Auerbachs Keller" episode Faust has the opportunity to find "what holds the world together in its essence" and to end his quest happily, but he fails. He forgets the future because he cannot remember what epic teaches. His course ends tragically, bringing him back to the origin of epic, as he replicates the Trojans' mistake of presuming to cheat the gods. Arnd Bohm is associate professor of English at Carleton University, Ottawa.

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À propos de l?auteur

Arnd Bohm is Associate Professor in the Department of German at Carleton University.

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Éditeur
Camden House Inc
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1571133445
ISBN 13 
9781571133441
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
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