Goethe and Judaism : The Troubled Inheritance of Modern Literature / Karin Schutjer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schutjer, Karin Lynn, 1966- author.

Contributor:

Project Muse, Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Criticism and interpretation.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Jews in literature.

Judaism in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Goethe and Judaism, Karin Schutjer examines the iconic German writer's engagement with Judaism. Her premise is that Goethe's conception of modernity--his apprehensions as well as his most affirmative vision concerning the trajectory of his age--is deeply entwined with his conception of Judaism. The book argues that behind his very mixed representations of Jews and Judaism stand crucial tensions within his own thinking and a distinct anxiety of influence. Goethe draws, for example, from the Jewish ban on idolatry for his own semiotics, from the narratives of nomadic wanderings in the Hebrew Bible for his own trope of the existential wanderer, from the history of Jewish exile for his own emergent conception of a German Kulturnation. Schutjer thus uncovers the surprising debt to Judaism owed by one the most formative thinkers in German history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Itinerancy, suffering, and providence : Goethe's encounters with Judaism in Poetry and truth

Moses and the modern nation : Goethe on Exodus

The people of the book : Goethe's Volksbuch project and the journeyman years

Faust as keeper of the covenant : Part One of the tragedy

Faust and the promised land : Part Two of the tragedy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8101-3166-8

OCLC:

921701608