Goethe's Ghosts: Reading and the Persistence of Literature

by Richard Block and Simon Richter

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, inform the Western storehouse of literature - can show us long-forgotten dimensions of literature. Inspired by the distinguished Goethe scholar Jane...

• 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"