Goethe''s Allegories of Identity

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Jane K. Brown

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jane K Brown, Jane K. Brown
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.2014
• EAN: 9780812245820
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4582-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Haney Foundation Series; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies