Vorausdeutungen und Ruckblicke

Goethe und Goethe-Rezeption zwischen Klassik und Moderne

edited by Frank Furbeth and Bernd Zegowitz

Book cover: Vorausdeutungen und Ruckblicke

Extent: 347 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: Classical Studies, German Studies

Series: Frankfurter Beitrage zur Germanistik

Series volume number: 53

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(January 2014)

ISBN: 9783825361075

6.5 x 9.65 inches

Price: $47.00

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the classic figure in German literature. As such, he not only determined the image and the notion of German Classicism, but also repeatedly prompted critical debate about his work and his person in literature and art. The papers in this volume address both of these aspects: on the one hand, they focus on Goethe’s influence on his contemporaries as well as on later recipients of his work, thereby especially taking into account lesser known paths of reception, and on the other hand on the different views of the concept of classic and of classicism in philology, philosophy and art history during the 19th and 20th centuries. German text.


English summary: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the classic figure in German literature. As such, he not only determined the image and the notion of German Classicism, but also repeatedly prompted critical debate about his work and his person in literature and art. The papers in this volume address both of these aspects: on the one hand, they focus on Goethe’s influence on his contemporaries as well as on later recipients of his work, thereby especially taking into account lesser known paths of reception, and on the other hand on the different views of the concept of classic and of classicism in philology, philosophy and art history during the 19th and 20th centuries. German description: Johann Wolfgang Goethe ist der Klassiker der deutschen Literatur schlechthin. Als solcher hat er nicht nur das Bild und den Begriff der deutschen Klassik gepragt, sondern in gleicher Weise auch immer wieder zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit seinem Werk und seiner Person in Literatur und Kunst herausgefordert. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes gehen beiden Aspekten nach: Im Vordergrund stehen dabei einerseits die Einflusse Goethes auf die Zeitgenossen wie auf spatere Rezipienten, wobei besonders auch die eher unbekannten Wirkungswege thematisiert werden, und andererseits die verschiedenen Auffassungen von Klassik und Klassizismus des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts in Philologie, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte. Das thematische Spektrum reicht so von der Rezeption von Goethes Rede ‘Zum Schakespears Tag’ bis zu Adornos Klassik-Begriff, von Goethes Rolle im italienischen Romantikerstreit bis zur Travestierung des im kulturellen Gedachtnis festgeschriebenen Goethe-Bilds in der Neuen Frankfurter Schule.

  • Edited by Frank Furbeth
  • Edited by Bernd Zegowitz