Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the FutureCamden House, 2007 - 276 sider A 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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... passage , Luther imagined what might happen if a group of Christians were set into an ungoverned realm : Vnd das ichs noch klerer sag / Wen ein heufflin fromer Christen leye ( n ) wurden gefangen vnnd in ein wusteney gesetzt / die nit ...
... passage in Rabelais's Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel . I have no doubt that Goethe knew this text and that it needs to be brought into consideration as a source for " Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig . " 67 The scene comes at a climax ...
... passage to “ Auerbachs Keller ” are so striking that they cannot be accidental : the naming of the wines , the insistence on the will of the drinkers for determining which wine they taste . It may be that Rabelais's Restauration , ed ...
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The System of European Epic | 20 |
Faust and Epic History | 36 |
The Roots of Evil | 87 |
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