The Undoing of Literature
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/05/2001
A new approach to understanding Goethe that offers fresh insights into some of his most important works. The most celebrated of German poets, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is today as much an institution as a writer. This innovative study shows unexpected relations between Goethe the artist and Goethe the posthumous tradition, and considers the radical historical metamorphosis of his textual being. Drawing on a lifetime of reading and reflecting on Goethe, Benjamin Bennett focuses on that writer's own struggle with the idea of reading, and with an understanding of the wrongness of literature that opens onto the possibility of woman as a needful destabilizing factot. Bennett shows that even in his early writing Goethe exhibits a highly developed theoretical resistance against both the aesthetic and the national aspects of what was understood as literature in his time, an attitude that would lead him to experiment with gender difference as a means of staking out new literary positions. Bennett revlews a number of Goethe's works, offering a bold new interpretation of Werther, fresh insights into Die naturliche Tochter, and an assessment of Die Wahlverwandtschaften that reveals Goethe
- ISBN:
- 9780814329481
- 9780814329481
- Category:
- Literature: history & criticism
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-05-2001
- Publisher:
- Wayne State University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 230x150mm
- Weight:
- 0.52kg
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