Author: James Bentley Orrick
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: James Simpson
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547522
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Gregory Maertz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838269810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe’s authority, a previously hidden chapter in the intellectual history of the period ranging from the late eighteenth century to the threshold of Modernism, is the focus of Literature and the Cult of Personality. Marginal as well as canonical writers and critics figured prominently in this process, and Literature and the Cult of Personality offers insight into the mediation activities of Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Crabb Robinson, the canonical Romantic poets, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and others. For women writers and Jacobins, Scots, and Americans, translating Goethe served as an empowering cultural platform that challenges the myth of the self-sufficiency of British literature. Reviewing and translating German authors provided a means of gaining literary enfranchisement and offered a paradigm of literary development according to which 're-writers' become original writers through an apprenticeship of translation and reviewing. In the diverse and fascinating body of critical writing examined in this book, textual exegesis plays an unexpectedly minor role; in its place, a full-blown cult of personality emerges along with a blueprint for the ideology of hero-worship that is more fully mapped out in the cultural and political life of twentieth-century Europe.

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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.

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Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571132789
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Examines the critical reputation of one of the great literary critics. From the publication of The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems in 1849, Matthew Arnold has been a figure of controversy who sparked decidedly strong and divergent opinions -- both about the quality of his artistry and about the ideas he espoused. Not surprisingly, a chronological reading of books and articles focusing on Arnold's writings reveals a century-long civil war among literary scholars. Focusing on studies judged to be most influential in shaping critical opinion of Arnold's poetry and prose, Matthew Arnold: The Critical Legacy explores the interplay between individual critics and Arnold's works, and between one critic and another as they respond to Arnold's writings and the critical commentary. There emerges an appreciation for the key questions that have captured the attention of Arnold's critics for over a hundred years: Was Arnold a first-rate poet, or does he rank below the greatest figures of his century, notably Tennyson and Browning?

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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Author: James Simpson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351199218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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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: the incestuous roots of desire. Triggered by this discovery, Goethe's imagination becomes increasingly analytic and diagnostic, and startlingly prefigures the work of Freud. Yet, paradoxically, Goethe's insight leads him to a triumphant reassertion of an innocent sexuality purged of those elements he identifies as 'diseased'. Central to ""Goethe and Patriarchy"" is a new account of the genesis of the first part of ""Faust"", which is shown to contain a record of Goethe's changing attitudes to human sexuality. In particular, Simpson is the first critic to demonstrate that the Gretchen episode is a deliberate ""Kontrafaktur"" of the patriarchal idyll of the ""Song of Songs"". The book explores numerous other Goethe texts and casts entirely new light on his creative imagination."

Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734065410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Reproduction of the original: Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold

Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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