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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bohm, Arnd, 1953- Goethe's Faust and European epic. Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2007 (OCoLC)607688480 Online version: Bohm, Arnd, 1953- Goethe's Faust and European epic. Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2007 (OCoLC)608202965 |
| Named Person: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Goethe; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Martina Düllings; Johann Wolfgang{von Goethe |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arnd Bohm |
| ISBN: | 9781571133441 1571133445 |
| OCLC Number: | 71210192 |
| Description: | xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Goethe's epic ambitions -- The system of European epic -- Faust and epic history -- The roots of evil -- "Auerbachs Keller" and epic history -- Faust as a Christian epic -- The epic encyclopedia. |
| Series Title: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture. |
| Responsibility: | Arnd Bohm. |
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Winner of the 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award * . * A bold undertaking by a careful scholar, this book displays an impressive grasp of its supporting materials. Bohm challenges readers to view Faust in interesting new ways and supports his discussion with extraordinary footnotes. ... Imaginative comparisons with earlier epics furnish new insights. ... The final pages of the book offer an excellent summary. * CHOICE * Bohm has brought considerable new light to the intertextual archaeology of Faust and thereby has lent new impulses to Faust criticism. His subtle philological study belongs therefore in the library of any serious Faust reader. * MONATSHEFTE * Goethe's Faust and European Epic is an ambitious book, setting out to demonstrate 'that Faust properly belongs in the sequence of works ... that together constitute the system of European epic.'... Bohm's treatment of the European epic as a dynamic system does a good job of drawing out the aspects of that vast system that are most promising for a reading of Faust, and of allowing these to stand as representative features of the tradition. * CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE * [A] work of extraordinary complexity and sophistication.. When it comes to intimate knowledge and understanding of Goethe's great work and its place amid European letters, [Bohm] ranks with the best. * SEMINAR * The strength of the book lies ... in its deceptively broad learnedness. It deals not only with the history of the epic tradition, but also ... with the great corpus of recent English-language research on the epic of the Renaissance and of the Empire, with the hermeneutics of the epic, and with the interrelationship of natural sciences, magic, and mysticism in the early modern period. * GOETHE JAHRBUCH * Read more...
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- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832. -- Faust.
- Epic poetry, European -- History and criticism.
- Poésie épique européenne -- Histoire et critique.
- Goethe -- Johann Wolfgang von -- 1749-1832 -- Faust.
- Faust (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von)
- Epic poetry, European.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von -- 1749-1832 -- Faust
- Düllings, Martina
- Europa
- Epos
- Epik
- Faust (Goethe)
- Epische poëzie.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang{von.
- Faust.
- Epos.
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