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Goethe's Reception of Ulrich von Hutten
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TOWARD THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK of Dichtung und Wtthrheit, Goethe recalls his discovery of the works of the humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523):"DieWerke Ulrichs von Hutten kamen mir in die Hände und es schien wundersam genug daà in unsern neuern Tagen sich das Ãhnliche, was dort hervorgetreten, hier sich gleichfalls wieder zu manifestieren schien" (FA 14:773). This remark is followed by a long quotation from Hutten's autobiographical letter to the Nuremberg humanist Willibald Pi...
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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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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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And P is for Polymath Born 250 years ago, Goethe is one of the greatest figures of European civilization: poet, playwright, scientist, prime minister, author of the first bestseller and founder of modern German literature. Kevin Jackson presents an A to Z of his life and works
The Independent - London
; A is for Auden WH Auden not only admired the man he called "Mr G", he felt a deep affection for him. It saddened Auden to think that the British, though we are happy enough to agree that Goethe should join Dante and Shakespeare in the triad of Major League European writers ("Daunty, Gouty and
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`Faust' and Furious: Outing a German Hero?; A Controversial Biography of Goethe Says the Titan of Literature Was Gay
The Washington Post
; Among the giants of literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remains unique. One of history's great Renaissance men, he achieved Olympian feats during his 83 years as a critic, journalist, painter, statesman, scientist and philosopher. No wonder he is hailed as the ultimate European, a man who felt
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Goethe and Wittgenstein: Seeing the World's Unity in its Variety
Goethe Yearbook
; Fritz Breithaupt, Richard Raatzsch, and Bettina Kremberg, eds., Goethe and Wittgenstein: seeing the World's Unity in its Variety. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2003.172 pp. Goethe's influence on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is subtle and indirect. In his status as "canonical classic" Goethe
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Religion and gender in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris.
Helios
; The second half of the eighteenth century saw a new impetus in the relationship between Europeans and classical literature. There was a clear move away from what had become perceived as artificial forms of expression based on baroque notions of proper restraint. Preoccupations with history and
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Goethe and the English-Speaking World. Essays from the Cambridge Symposium for His 250th Anniversary
German Quarterly
; Boyle, Nicholas and John Guthrie, eds. Goethe and the English-Speaking World. Essays from the Cambridge Symposium for His 250 Anniversary. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002. 285 pp. $36.80 hardcover. This volume presents nearly all of the papers given at the Cambridge Symposium. It opens with
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