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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... Vergil's warning : " And the good master began to say to me , ' Before you enter far- ther , know that you are in the second ring , and shall be , until you come to the horrible sand . Look well , therefore , and you shall see things ...
... Vergil in Goethe's texts , but only recently has any attempt been made to identify Goethe's experiments with the imitation of Vergil.5 Jürgen Paul Schwindt has cautiously but convincingly pointed to the parallels between the meet- ing ...
... Vergil , both as he conceived his own task in relation to Homer1 and as he was later elevated , first to the status ... Vergil's Aeneid : Cosmos and Imperium ( 1986 ; repr . , Oxford : Clarendon , 1989 ) . 2 On the quest for hermetic ...
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The System of European Epic | 20 |
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The Roots of Evil | 87 |
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