Goethe: Journeys of the Mind (Armchair Traveller) - Softcover

Bersier, Gabrielle S.; Boerner, Nancy Sanden; Boerner, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909961523 ISBN 13: 9781909961524

Verlag: HAUS PUB, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often seen as the quintessential 18th-century tourist, though with the exception of an extended trip to Italy he scarcely left his homeland. Compared with many of his peripatetic contemporaries, his actual journeys were few, and the list of European cities he never set foot in is long. He never saw Vienna, Paris or London, and he only once visited Berlin. During the last 30 years of his life he was essentially a homebound writer, but his intensive mental journeys countered this sedentary lifestyle and the misconception of Goethe as a traveller springs from the uniquely international influence of his writing. His journeys were of the mind, taken amid the pages of books by others. In his reading, Goethe was the typical 18th-century armchair traveller, accruing knowledge of places, both near and far, through the words and eyewitness accounts of others. In Goethe: Journeys of the Mind, Nancy Boerner and Gabrielle Bersier explore what it was that made the great polymath distinct from his peers.

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Nancy Boerner served as collection development librarian for West European studies, classical studies, and Germanic, French, and Italian languages and literatures at Indiana University's Wells Library. In 2005 she published a translation of Peter Boerner's biography of Goethe. Born in Switzerland, Gabrielle Bersier is emerita professor of German at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. 
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HAUS PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1909961523
• ISBN 13: 9781909961524
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
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