Genesis: The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf PDF
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Genesis Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture Genesis The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf T. J. Reed Rochester, New York Copyright © 2020 T. J. Reed All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2020 by Camden House Camden House is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA www.camden-house.com and of Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK www.boydellandbrewer.com ISBN-13: 978-1-64014-082-0 (hardcover) ISBN-13: 978-1-78744-888-9 (ePDF) ISBN-13: 978-1-78744-984-8 (ePUB) Cover image: Auguste Rodin, The Hand of God, modeled ca. 1896–1902, carved ca. 1907. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1908. Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data is available from the Library of Congress. This publication is printed on acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America. For Richard Dorrington Contents Note on Quotations and Translations ix Preface xi Introduction: Processes 1 Part I. Antiquity 1: Homer’s Audiences: Shaping the Iliad (and the Odyssey) 19 2: Fourfold Genesis: The Bible between Literature and Authority 37 Part II. Early Modern 3: An Alphabet of Experience: Montaigne 57 4: Beginner’s Luck: Shakespeare’s History Cycles 78 Transition—Tradition 100 Part III. Goethe 5: Cross-Purposes: Goethe’s Faust 103 6: Occasions: Goethe’s Lyric Poetry 125 7: Live and Learn: Werther and Wilhelm Meister 146 Part IV. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German 8: Writing on the Run: Georg Büchner’s Revolutions 163 9: “The Best-Laid Schemes. . .”: Thomas Mann Unplanned 174 viii Contents 10: Description of a Struggle: Kafka’s Half-Escape 191 11: Atomic Beginnings: Brecht, Galileo, and After 209 12: Knowing and Partly Knowing: Paul Celan’s Mission 220 13: Christa Wolf: A Fall from Grace 231 Afterword 239 Notes 241 Bibliography 281 Index 295 Note on Quotations and Translations to meet the needs of comparatists as well as Germanists, German prose material is for the most part translated into English. The original is referenced in the endnotes, and in especially significant cases quoted in full there. Poetry is quoted in the original, with a translation following. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from German and French are mine.
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