TY - BOOK ID - 85474592 TI - Goethe's ghosts : reading and the persistence of literature AU - Richter, Simon AU - Block, Richard A. PY - 2013 SN - 1571138781 1571135677 PB - Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - German literature KW - Books and reading KW - History and criticism. KW - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, KW - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang KW - Goethe KW - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von KW - Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang KW - von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang KW - Hete, Johann Vol'fhanh KW - Gete, Iogann Vol'fgang KW - ゲーテ KW - Gete, Volʹfgang KW - Ko-tê KW - Gede KW - Gete, Jogann KW - Gette KW - Gʹote, Ĭokhan Volʹfgang KW - Jūtah, Yūhān Fūlfjānj KW - Goethe, J. W. KW - Jītī KW - Gete, V. KW - Koetʻe KW - Goetʻe KW - Getė, KW - Gkaite KW - Gitah, Y. Ṿ. KW - Goethe, Jan Wolfgan, KW - Gëte, Iogann Volʹfgang KW - Göte KW - Gyoete KW - Goethe, W. v. KW - Fon-Geteh, Ṿ. KW - Geteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon KW - -Giteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon KW - -Gete, Johan Volfgang KW - Hete, Ĭ. V. KW - Kēōtʻē, Volfkank KW - Katē KW - Katē, Yōkān̲ Vulpkēṅk Vān̲ KW - Гете, Иоганн Вольфганг KW - Qöte, Y. V. KW - Qöte, Yohan Volfqanq KW - גטה KW - גטה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, KW - גטה, י.ו KW - גיתה KW - גיתה, יוהאן וולפאנג פון KW - גיתה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, KW - גיתה, יוהן וולפגאנג וון, KW - גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג פון, KW - גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג, KW - געטהע KW - געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג KW - געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג פון, KW - געטהע, יאהאן װאלפגאנג, KW - געטהע, י. וו KW - געטהע, י. וו. פאן KW - געטהע, י. װ., KW - געטהע, י.װ KW - געטע, װ.פ KW - גתה, וו KW - גתה, יוהן וולפגאנג ון, KW - גתה, יוהן וולפגנג KW - י. וו. געטהע KW - جوته KW - گوته، يوهان ولفگانگ ون KW - 歌德, KW - Influence. KW - ゲエテ KW - Adorno. KW - Benn. KW - Childhood studies. KW - Colonial studies. KW - Cultural studies. KW - Deconstruction. KW - Droste-Hülshoff. KW - Eco-criticism. KW - Feminism. KW - Goethe. KW - Hegel. KW - History of the book. KW - Jane Brown. KW - Literature. KW - Mimetic forms. KW - Nietzsche. KW - Reading. KW - Relevance. KW - Semiotics. KW - Virtual literature. KW - Western literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85474592 AB - 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 of the 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. Goethe's work informs current debates on nineteenth-century nationalism, while his Faust increasingly serves to express contemporary culture's anxiety about new technologies. 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 in writers as diverse as Hegel, Adorno, Benn, Droste-Hülshoff, and Nietzsche. Each of the essays testifies to the enduring salience and presence of Goethe. Contributors: Helmut Ammerlahn, Benjamin Bennett, Richard Block, Dieter Borchmeyer, Franz-Josef Deiters, Richard T. Gray, Martha B. Helfer, Meredith Lee, Clark Muenzer, Andrew Piper, Simon Richter, Jürgen Schroeder, Peter Schwartz, Patricia Simpson, Robert Tobin, David Wellbery, Sabine Wilke. Simon Richter is Professor of German Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Richard Block is Associate Professor of German at the University of Washington. ER -