Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the FutureA reassessment of genre that fills a major gap in Goethe's oeuvre and initiates a radically new reading of Faust. Goethe has long been enshrined as the greatest German poet, but his admirers have always been uneasy with the idea that he did not produce a great epic poem. A master in all the other genres and modes, it has been felt, should have done so. Arnd Bohm proposes that Goethe did compose an epic poem, which has been hidden in plain view: Faust. Goethe saw that the Faust legends provided the stuff for a national epic: a German hero, a villain (Mephistopheles), a quest (to know all things), a sublime conflict (good versus evil), a love story (via Helen of Troy), and elasticity (all human knowledge could be accommodated by the plot). Bohm reveals the care with which Goethe draws upon such sources as Tasso, Ariosto, Dante, and Vergil. In the microcosm of the "Auerbachs Keller" episode Faust has the opportunity to find "what holds the world together in its essence" and to end his quest happily, but he fails. He forgets the future because he cannot remember what epic teaches. His course ends tragically, bringing him back to the origin of epic, as he replicates the Trojans' mistake of presuming to cheat the gods. Arnd Bohm isAssociate Professor of English at Carleton University, Ottawa. |
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He has lived a long time and is able to range widely through space and time . Over and over again in the drama , he demonstrates prior knowledge of topics that Faust is encountering for the first time . But Mephistopheles is not ...
There is no longer a marvelous privileged access to the past : the modern historian has to rely upon memory , insight , empathy , logic , and imagination in order to be able to make sense of what is happening out of the fragments ...
For Dante to be able to make his text in the way he did , he had to begin with a scheme that already had a place for all topics . Dante's memory the- atre could be so clearly organized because he had already provided places for ...
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| Tittel | Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future Volum 2 av Studies in German Literature L Volum 2 av Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
| Forfatter | Arnd Bohm |
| Utgave | illustrert |
| Utgiver | Camden House, 2007 |
| Original fra | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisert | 30. mai 2008 |
| ISBN | 1571133445, 9781571133441 |
| Lengde | 276 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |