ISBN:
9780810131736
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9780810131330
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0810131331
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 245 Seiten
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Illustrationen (schwarz-weiss)
Year of publication:
2015
DDC:
832.6
Keywords:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Criticism and interpretation
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832 Criticism and interpretation
;
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832
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Jews in literature
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Judaism in literature
;
Jews in literature
;
Judaism in literature
;
Jews in literature
;
Judaism in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832
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Judentum
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Juden
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832
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Juden
;
Lyrik
Abstract:
In Goethe and Judaism, Karin Schutjer examines the iconic German writer's engagement with, and portrayal of, Judaism. Her premise is that Goethe's conception of modernity--his apprehensions as well as his most affirmative vision concerning the trajectory of his age--is deeply entwined with his conception of Judaism. Schutjer argues that behind his very mixed representations of Jews and Judaism stand crucial tensions within his own thinking and a distinct anxiety of influence. Goethe draws, for example, from the Jewish ban on idolatry for his own semiotics, from the narratives of nomadic wanderings in the Hebrew Bible for his own trope of the existential wanderer, from the history of Jewish exile for his own emergent conception of a German Kulturnation. Schutjer thus uncovers the surprising debt to Judaism owed by one the most formative thinkers in German history --
Abstract:
In Goethe and Judaism, Karin Schutjer examines the iconic German writer's engagement with, and portrayal of, Judaism. Her premise is that Goethe's conception of modernity--his apprehensions as well as his most affirmative vision concerning the trajectory of his age--is deeply entwined with his conception of Judaism. Schutjer argues that behind his very mixed representations of Jews and Judaism stand crucial tensions within his own thinking and a distinct anxiety of influence. Goethe draws, for example, from the Jewish ban on idolatry for his own semiotics, from the narratives of nomadic wanderings in the Hebrew Bible for his own trope of the existential wanderer, from the history of Jewish exile for his own emergent conception of a German Kulturnation. Schutjer thus uncovers the surprising debt to Judaism owed by one the most formative thinkers in German history --
Description / Table of Contents:
Itinerancy, suffering, and providence : Goethe's encounters with Judaism in Poetry and truth -- Moses and the modern nation : Goethe on Exodus -- The people of the book : Goethe's Volksbuch project and the journeyman years -- Faust as keeper of the covenant : Part One of the tragedy -- Faust and the promised land : Part Two of the tragedy.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis, Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Itinerancy, suffering, and providence : Goethe's encounters with Judaism in Poetry and truth
,
Moses and the modern nation : Goethe on Exodus
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The people of the book : Goethe's Volksbuch project and the journeyman years
,
Faust as keeper of the covenant : Part One of the tragedy
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Faust and the promised land : Part Two of the tragedy
