New essays from leading Goethe scholars providing testimony to the
continuing, even renewed, relevance of Goethe for literary studies
today. Invoking Goethe's name has become fashionable again. With
new methods and technologies of reading threatening to render
literature virtual and insubstantial, we have the sense that
"Goethe's ghosts" - the otherwise neglected voices and traditions
that, finding their most trenchant expression in Goethe, inform the
Western storehouse of literature - can show us long-forgotten
dimensions of literature. Inspired by the distinguished Goethe
scholar Jane Brown,whose life's work has called attention to the
allegorical modes haunting the mimetic forms that dominate modern
literature, the contributors to this volume take a rich variety of
approaches to Goethe: cultural studies, history ofthe book,
semiotics, deconstruction, colonial studies, feminism, childhood
studies, and eco-criticism. The persistence, omnipresence, and
modalities of the "ghosts" they find suggest that more than
influence or standards is at issue here. The stubborn reappearance
of these revenants testifies to more fundamental issues concerning
the status of literature and the task of the reader. As the
contributors demonstrate, these questions acquire renewed urgency
inwriters as diverse as Hegel, Adorno, Benn, Droste-Hulshoff, and
Nietzsche. Each of the essays testifies to the enduring salience
and presence of Goethe. Contributors: Helmut Ammerlahn, Benjamin
Bennett, Dieter Borchmeyer, Franz-Josef Deiters, Richard T. Gray,
Martha B. Helfer, Meredith Lee, Clark Muenzer, Andrew Piper, Jurgen
Schroeder, Peter J. Schwartz, Patricia Anne Simpson, Robert Deam
Tobin, David E. Wellbery, Sabine Wilke. SimonRichter is Professor
of German Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Richard
Block is Associate Professor of German at the University of
Washington.
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