Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on Quotations and Translations
- Preface
- Introduction: Processes
- Part I Antiquity
- 1 Homer's Audiences: Shaping the Iliad (and the Odyssey)
- 2 Fourfold Genesis: The Bible between Literature and Authority
- Part II Early Modern
- 3 An Alphabet of Experience: Montaigne
- 4 Beginner's Luck: Shakespeare's History Cycles
- Transition—Tradition
- Part III Goethe
- 5 Cross-Purposes: Goethe's Faust
- 6 Occasions: Goethe's Lyric Poetry
- 7 Live and Learn: Werther and Wilhelm Meister
- Part IV Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German
- 8 Writing on the Run: Georg Büchner's Revolutions
- 9 “The Best-Laid Schemes…”: Thomas Mann Unplanned
- 10 Description of a Struggle: Kafka's Half-Escape
- 11 Atomic Beginnings: Brecht, Galileo, and After
- 12 Knowing and Partly Knowing: Paul Celan's Mission
- 13 Christa Wolf: A Fall from Grace
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on Quotations and Translations
- Preface
- Introduction: Processes
- Part I Antiquity
- 1 Homer's Audiences: Shaping the Iliad (and the Odyssey)
- 2 Fourfold Genesis: The Bible between Literature and Authority
- Part II Early Modern
- 3 An Alphabet of Experience: Montaigne
- 4 Beginner's Luck: Shakespeare's History Cycles
- Transition—Tradition
- Part III Goethe
- 5 Cross-Purposes: Goethe's Faust
- 6 Occasions: Goethe's Lyric Poetry
- 7 Live and Learn: Werther and Wilhelm Meister
- Part IV Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German
- 8 Writing on the Run: Georg Büchner's Revolutions
- 9 “The Best-Laid Schemes…”: Thomas Mann Unplanned
- 10 Description of a Struggle: Kafka's Half-Escape
- 11 Atomic Beginnings: Brecht, Galileo, and After
- 12 Knowing and Partly Knowing: Paul Celan's Mission
- 13 Christa Wolf: A Fall from Grace
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- GenesisThe Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020