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The Spell of Italy - Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Spell of Italy - Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
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Wearied by his life as an administrator at the Duke's court in
Weimar, in 1786 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe departed unannounced in
the middle of the night for what had been the destination of his
imagination since childhood: Italy. His extended stay there
dramatically affected his views of art, architecture, prose,
poetry, and science. When he returned to Germany and Weimar,
Goethe's experiences translated into his life and work in ways that
influenced countless others as they developed Germany's own brand
of high culture. ""The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the
Attraction of Goethe"" tracks the peculiar space Italy occupies in
the cultural consciousness of German writers by reconsidering the
Italian journeys of Goethe and Winckelmann and the legacy of those
journeys in the works of Heine, Nietzsche, Freud, Mann, Carossa,
and Bachmann. Author Richard Block contests previous assumptions
about Italy as a place to encounter classical culture and creative
rebirth. His study examines the degree to which Germany's literary
and cultural traditions appropriated a phantasmic Italy, showing
how Winckelmann's art history and Goethe's Italian journey
predisposed later writers to search for an aesthetic ideal in Italy
that did not exist, and how their search for this absent ideal
eventually resulted in disillusionment and deception. Building on
previous work on Goethe, literary theory, and cultural history,
""The Spell of Italy"" offers compelling new ways of understanding
Germany's fascination with Italy from the eighteenth century to its
troubled political history of the twentieth century.
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