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Jane K. Brown is Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization Emerita at the University of Washington and author of The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART I. THE PROBLEM
Chapter 1. Representing Subjectivity
Chapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Passion
Chapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social Responsibility
PART II. EXPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIVITY
Chapter 4. The Theatrical Self
Chapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in
Faust Chapter 6. The Narrative Self
PART III. THE LANGUAGE OF INTERIORITY
Chapter 7. Goethe's Angst
Chapter 8. "Es singen wohl die Nixen":
Werther and the Romantic Tale
Chapter 9. Goethe and the Uncanny
Conclusion: Classicism and Goethe's Emotional Regime
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jane K. Brown is Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization Emerita at the University of Washington and author of The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Zusammenfassung
Goethe's Allegories of Identity shows how Goethe's literary works, as the essential middle steps between Rousseau and Freud, lay the basis for modern depth psychology. Its illuminating scholarly yet accessible readings of five major works may also serve as an introduction to readers coming to Goethe for the first time.
