Goethe's Ghosts: Reading and the Persistence of Literature

by Richard Block and Simon Richter

New essays from leading Goethe scholars providing testimony to the continuing, even renewed, relevance of Goethe for literary studies today.

Invoking Goethe's name has become fashionable again. With new methods and technologies of reading threatening to render literature virtual and insubstantial, we have the sense that "Goethe's ghosts" - the otherwise neglected voices and traditions that, finding their most trenchant expression in Goethe,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135677
• ISBN13: 9781571135674
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"