For many readers in the English-speaking world, Goethe is somehow separate from the European intellectual and literary tradition. In this unique and wide-ranging study, Matthew Bell aims to correct this view by showing how Goethe portrayed human beings as part of a natural continuum, very much in th...

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1. Verfasser:	Bell, Matthew 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Clarendon Press 1994
Schriftenreihe:	Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Schlagworte:	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von <1749-1832> Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von <1749-1832> > Knowledge > Anthropology Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von > 1749-1832 Antropologie Wissen Anthropology in literature Literature and anthropology Anthropologie Naturphilosophie Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	For many readers in the English-speaking world, Goethe is somehow separate from the European intellectual and literary tradition. In this unique and wide-ranging study, Matthew Bell aims to correct this view by showing how Goethe portrayed human beings as part of a natural continuum, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment Dr Bell's fresh readings of Goethe's major and lesser-known texts are set against the background of the science and philosophy of the age, and the writer's debts to other thinkers are analysed. The development of Goethe as a writer and thinker is traced from his sentimental epistolary novel Werther - read in the context of the rise of psychological theory in the Enlightenment - to the emergence of his own theory of 'empirical psychology' in the great roman a clef of 1809, Die Wahlverwandtschaften In a major new interpretation of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Matthew Bell follows the ideal of organic growth from the novel's origins in Enlightenment optimism to its revision in an atmosphere of post-revolutionary scepticism
Beschreibung:	Teilw. zugl.: Oxford, Univ., Diss., 1991
Beschreibung:	346 S.
ISBN:	0198158947