1st Edition

Goethe 2000 Intercultural Readings of His Work

By Paul Bishop Copyright 2000
208 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

The two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was celebrated in Scotland by a colloquium held under the auspices of the University of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Germanistics in April 1999. Its aim was to reflect both Goethe's own commitment to Weltliteratur and the pressing need in our global village at the turn of the millennium for cultural exchange... Read more
The Problem of Origin in the Works of the Young Goethe; Huysmans' à Rebours Als Hinter Grund Für Eine Untragische Lektüre Der Wahlverwandtschaften; 'Brahma [...] Der Gerechte', 'Waltende Gerechtigkeit', 'Waltant Got': The Genesis of Goethe's Paria in an Intercultural Perspective; 'The Illustrious Goethe' Through Byron's Eyes: A Relationship of Analogy?; The Divine Feminine in the Spanish Kabbalah and Wilhelm Meister; Goethe's 'Chinesisch—Deutsche Jahres- Und Tageszeiten': An Intercultural Glance; Hatte Wilhelm Meister Eine Sendung?; Die Natürliche Tochter: A Model of Interculturality?; The Cultural Theory of Weimar Classicism in the Light of Coleridge's Doctrine of Aesthetic Knowledge; Ernst Cassirer and the Renaissance of Cultural Theory

Biography

Paul Bishop