336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book traces the history of a complex sexual fantasy which features recurrently in Goethe's writings from his days as a student in Leipzig to the final years as Europe's most celebrated living poet. Simpson shows how the young man's fantasy of innocent sexuality became an increasingly troubled one during the poet's first decade in Weimar. Goethe began to recognize in it a submerged element:... Read more
1: Founts, Origins, Sources; 2: Ceremonies of Innocence, or: Gifts and Misgivings; 3: Geology; 4: Genealogies and Heterotopias, or: Inside Out, Outside In; 5: Thresholds and Reflections: was Anzügliches, was Schauerliches; 6: Red Shifts, Golden Dreams; 7: Ghosts, Words, Flesh; 8: Interruptus; 9: Summer Gardens, Winter Voices
Biography
James Simpson
