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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Itinerancy, suffering, and providence : Goethe's encounters with Judaism in Poetry and truth -- Moses and the modern nation : Goethe on Exodus -- The people of the book : Goethe's Volksbuch project and the journeyman years -- Faust as keeper of the covenant : Part One of the tragedy -- Faust and the promised land : Part Two of the tragedy. |
| Summary |
"In Goethe and Judaism, Karin Schutjer examines the iconic German writer's engagement with Judaism. Her premise is that Goethe's conception of modernity--his apprehensions as well as his most affirmative vision concerning the trajectory of his age--is deeply entwined with his conception of Judaism. The book argues that behind his very mixed representations of Jews and Judaism stand crucial tensions within his own thinking and a distinct anxiety of influence. Goethe draws, for example, from the Jewish ban on idolatry for his own semiotics, from the narratives of nomadic wanderings in the Hebrew Bible for his own trope of the existential wanderer, from the history of Jewish exile for his own emergent conception of a German Kulturnation. Schutjer thus uncovers the surprising debt to Judaism owed by one the most formative thinkers in German history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 |
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Jews in literature.
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Judaism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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Jews in literature |
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Judaism in literature |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schutjer, Karin Lynn, 1966- Goethe and Judaism. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2015025325 |
| ISBN |
9780810131668 (electronic bk.) |
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0810131668 (electronic bk.) |
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9780810131330 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780810131736 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0810131331 |
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