Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future (Studies in German Literature Linguistics And Culture, Band 2) - Hardcover

Bohm, Arnd

 
9781571133441: Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future (Studies in German Literature Linguistics And Culture, Band 2)
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ISBN 10: 1571133445 ISBN 13: 9781571133441
Verlag: Camden House, 2007

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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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Verlag
Camden House
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1571133445
ISBN 13 
9781571133441
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
292
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