Book Description
This 1981 book tells of the part which the visual arts played in Goethe's life and thought.
Author : William Douglas Robson-Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 1981-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521233216
This 1981 book tells of the part which the visual arts played in Goethe's life and thought.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520039964
Author : William Douglas Robson-Scott
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Art and literature
ISBN :
Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871404915
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus Reviews This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a “fresh and authentic” (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending “artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings” of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, “[Safranski’s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy” of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.
Author : Lesley Sharpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521665605
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a stimulating and accessible survey of this many-sided figure. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a separate chapter on Faust), prose fiction and autobiography. A wide-ranging survey of reception inside and outside Germany and an extensive guide to further reading round off this volume, which will appeal to students and specialists alike.
Author : Popular encyclopedia
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 1883
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199689253
Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, administrator, artist, art critic, and literary writer in a variety of genres.
Author : Pamela Currie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1351565265
Goethe's ideas on colour and imagery crossed many borderlines: those of artistic processes and philosophical aesthetics, art history and colour theory, together with the science of perception. This investigation into his writings ranges across art from Antiquity, the Renaissance and the eighteenth century, as well as exploring the centrality of these issues to Goethe's literary work. Questions find answers, but also raise new questions. This systematic sequence of essays, originally written between 1999 and 2011, appeals to readers in all these separate areas, while drawing together their essential coherence.
Author : Ilse Graham
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110868296
Author : Thomas Edie Hill
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :