 "The Star (Jordan, Middle East)")
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Goethe: Universal Genius Glimpses into a literary prodigy, THE STAR
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The Star (Jordan, Middle East)
11-18-1999
AFTER 250 years of his birth, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's literary
prodigy, remains to be what literary critics consider today as the compass
of world literature.
Goethe: Universal Genius is a book encompassing 10 extended articles
written by elite Arab intellectuals and literary figures who pondered on
the master's prolific legacy both as a literary zenith and an androgynous
humanitaria...
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Books: Genius in a romantic landscape This magnificent work lets us see the unknown giant of European culture in his proper setting.: Goethe: the poet and the age; vol. II: revolution and renunciation (1790-1803) by Nicholas Boyle Oxford UP, pounds 30, 949pp
The Independent - London
; Who reads Goethe now? In 1955 T S Eliot, following Joyce, linked the names of Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe "as the three poets who are incontestably great Europeans". Yet for most people it must be very unobvious what Goethe is doing in such company. Despite last year's celebrations of his 250th
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The Life of Goethe
German Quarterly
; Williams, John R. The Life of Goethe. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998. 318 pp. $44.95 hardcover. 1999 is the 250th anniversary of Goethe's birth, and coinciding with the planned colloquia and conferences celebrating the most renowned man of German letters is a groundswell of publications. The Life of
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The Cambridge Companion to Goethe
German Quarterly
; Sharpe, Lesley, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Goethe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 277 pp. $60.00 hardcover, $22.00 paperback. This book is a joy to read for many reasons; three stand out. The fifteen contributors to this Companion are prominent Goethe scholars teaching at British,
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The Sublime, "Über den Granit," and the Prehistory of Goethe's Science
Goethe Yearbook
; HIS SCIENTIFIC PURSUITS AND WRITINGS have merited Goethe a place in histories of science in the eighteenth century1 and there is a great body of scholarship that documents his work in various scientific fields.2 Recent studies, part of a wider reevaluation of the development of science in Europe in
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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SCHOLAR INSISTS GOETHE WAS HOMOSEXUAL.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Ian Traynor The Guardian Scripps Howard News Service BONN -- Germany's cultural grandees could be in for the shock of their lives this weekend, and generations of ordinary ...
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