Explores the central theme of Romantic poetry in the works of the
most important German Romantic poet of all. Goethe, in association
with his younger Romantic compatriots the Schlegels, Novalis,
Fichte, and Schelling, struggled with the subject-object dichotomy,
and tried to bridge the gap between self and other, consciousness
and nature.His theory and practice prefigured the Romantics'
determination to display and interrogate the linguistic and
cultural structures informing their own thinking and modes of
representation--what Goethe calls one's "Vorstellungsart." His work
exploits, subverts, and supplants inherited conventions and signs,
demonstrating with virtuosic irony that literature is a system of
texts, pre-texts, and pre-established but dynamic conceptual
models. Love and Deathin Goethe:"One and Double" explores Goethe's
use, in a wide range of his poetry and prose, of the theme of
Liebestod (love and death) and related embodiments of the paradox
of unity in duality. Ellis Dye also examinesGoethe's use of other
themes related to love and death--the femme fatale, the vagina
dentata, Frau Welt, the Lorelei, venereal disease, the
Lustmord--and considers issues of selfhood and individuation as
wellas the possibility that the love-death theme contains an
implicit gender bias toward the existential fact of personal
separateness. Poems, plays, and novels are dealt with,
nevertheless, as works of art, not only as illustrationsof an idea
or as points of intersection in a system of rhetorical conventions,
and are examined for intellectual cohesiveness, elegance, and
integrity of design as well as special meanings and effects. Love
and Death in Goethe:"One and Double" explores the meaning of the
central theme of Romantic poetry in the works of the most important
Romantic poet of all. Students of literary culture, both the lay
reader and the Goethe specialist, will be enlightened by its
approach and find pleasure and instruction in its revelations.
Robert Ellis Dye is Professor of German at Macalester College.
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