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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... Hell . Fearing that this might redound to his harm , he invokes the aid of his superior . And , in order to render him more disposed to help , he laments . " 32 Within the structure and sequence of " Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig , " this ...
... Hell that for remembering the places of Hell the works of Vergil and Dante were very helpful . As Yates comments : 19 See the classic studies by Frances A. Yates , The Art of Memory ( Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1966 ) and Theatre of the ...
... Hell are the spheres of Heaven in reverse , it begins to appear as a summa of similitudes and exempla , ranged in order and set out upon the universe.2 20 As Mary Carruthers has pointed out , the analogy between Hell and a phys- ical ...
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The System of European Epic | 20 |
Faust and Epic History | 36 |
The Roots of Evil | 87 |
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