Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford Taylor Professor of German

Goethe: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived to the age of 82 and wrote prodigiously in every genre: drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, travel narrative, translation from French and Italian, and critical essays on art and literature, besides copious letters and diaries. Ritchie Robertson draws out key themes of his work and explains its lasting importance.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: OUP Oxford / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm x 113mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780199689255
• ISBN-10: 0199689253
• Artikelnr.: 42967141

Autorenporträt

Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German in the University of Oxford. He is Research Director for the Modern Languages Faculty, co-director (with Carolin Duttlinger and Katrin Kohl) of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, convenor of the Bithell Series of Dissertations in German, and editor of the new series Germanic Literatures to be published from 2013 by Legenda. He is the author of The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and its Discontents (OUP, 1999), Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine (OUP, 2009), and Kafka; A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2004). He has translated several German authors into English for the Oxford World's Classics and Penguin Classics series, and has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Love
2: Nature
3: Classical Art and World Literature
4: Politics
5: Tragedy
6: Religion
Further Reading
Index