Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010

by John D. Pizer

The first scholarly book treating the huge amount of recent and contemporary fiction set in the Age of Goethe and employing Goethe and other figures of the period as characters.

The Age of Goethe is widely viewed as the apogee of German culture. Its writers and thinkers, especially Goethe, have been exalted as role models for life and art, particularly after 1945. Yet in the 1970s, a new generation of German writers in both East and West rebelled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135170
• ISBN13: 9781571135179
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"