Illuminates how selected great works of literature arose, leading to deepened understanding of the works and harking back to what we still call the humanities.
Illuminates how selected great works of literature arose, leading to deepened understanding of the works and harking back to what we still call the humanities.
T. J. REED is Taylor Professor of German Emeritus at Oxford University.
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Preface Introduction PART 1: ANTIQUITY CHAPTER 1: Homer's Audiences: Shaping the Iliad CHAPTER 2: Fourfold Genesis: The Bible and Authority PART 2: EARLY MODERN CHAPTER 3: An Allphabet of Experience: Montaigne CHAPTER 4: Beginner's Luck: Shakespeare's History Cycles PART 3: Goethe CHAPTER 5: Cross-Purposes: Goethe's Faust CHAPTER 6: Occasions: Goethe's Lyrical Poetry CHAPTER 7: Live and Learn: Goethe's Prose Fiction PART 4: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Literature CHAPTER 8: Writing on the Run: Georg Büchner's Revolutions CHAPTER 9: "The best-laid schemes . . . ": Thomas Mann's Unplanned Career CHAPTER 10: Description of a Struggle: Kafka's Half-Escape CHAPTER 11: Atomic Beginnings: Brecht, Galileo, and After CHAPTER 12: Knowing and Partly Knowing: Paul Celan's Mission CHAPTER 13: Christa Wolf: "Better late than . . ."? Bibliography Index
Preface Introduction PART 1: ANTIQUITY CHAPTER 1: Homer's Audiences: Shaping the Iliad CHAPTER 2: Fourfold Genesis: The Bible and Authority PART 2: EARLY MODERN CHAPTER 3: An Allphabet of Experience: Montaigne CHAPTER 4: Beginner's Luck: Shakespeare's History Cycles PART 3: Goethe CHAPTER 5: Cross-Purposes: Goethe's Faust CHAPTER 6: Occasions: Goethe's Lyrical Poetry CHAPTER 7: Live and Learn: Goethe's Prose Fiction PART 4: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Literature CHAPTER 8: Writing on the Run: Georg Büchner's Revolutions CHAPTER 9: "The best-laid schemes . . . ": Thomas Mann's Unplanned Career CHAPTER 10: Description of a Struggle: Kafka's Half-Escape CHAPTER 11: Atomic Beginnings: Brecht, Galileo, and After CHAPTER 12: Knowing and Partly Knowing: Paul Celan's Mission CHAPTER 13: Christa Wolf: "Better late than . . ."? Bibliography Index
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