Essays on Goethe

by Atkins, Stuart; Brown, Jane K.; Saine, Thomas P.

• ISBN13: 9781571130273
• ISBN10: 1571130276
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Camden House

Summary

This volume contains some twenty definitive essays on the literary works of Goethe by STUART ATKINS, best known for his magisterial contributions to Goethe scholarship and his translation of I>Faust; although their importance has long been recognised, they have never before been collected in an accessible form. Their leitmotiv is the defence and clarification of the term 'classicism', seen as embracing style, motifs, modality and ethics, from antiquity to the Renaissance and later to the Romantics; they also seek to show how each variety of classicism is relevant to Goethe. The whole range of Goethe's work is covered, from his early letters to his last play, Die Wette, several studies of aspects of Faust are included. A complete bibliography of his scholarly publications completes the volume.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface	p. 1
The Apprentice Novelist: Goethe's Letters, 1765-67	p. 4
J. C. Lavater and Goethe: Problems of Psychology and Theology in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers	p. 23
The Opening Lines of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris	p. 83
Goethe and the Poetry of the Renaissance	p. 92
Goethe's Nausicaa: A Figure in Fresco	p. 118
Wilhelm Meistels Lehrjahre: Novel or Romance?	p. 130
Die Wahlverwandtschaften: Novel of German Classicism	p. 137
Italienische Reise and Goethean Classicism	p. 182
Goethe's Last Play: Die Wette	p. 198
"Das Leben ist ein Gansespiel": Some Aspects of Goethe's West-ostlicher Divan	p. 207
Goethe's Novelle as Pictorial Narrative	p. 220
The Mothers, the Phorcides, and the Cabiri in Faust	p. 230
The Visions of Leda and the Swan in Faust	p. 239
Goethe, Aristophanes, and the Classical Walpurgisnight	p. 243
Goethe, Calderon, and Faust: Der Tragodie zweiter Teil	p. 259
Irony and Ambiguity in the Final Scene of Goethe's Faust	p. 277
The Evaluation of Romanticism in Goethe's Faust	p. 293
Bibliography	p. 323
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