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Goethe’s "Faust": Seven Essays

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By Alan P. Cottrell
1976
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
Series: UNC Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
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The essays in this collection range from close textual analysis to discussions of larger problems such as Goethe's relation to Christianity as illuminated by the theme of sacrifice in Faust. This work is viewed with particular reference to Goethe's natural scientific epistemology and to the problems confronting Western man in our own times. A study of Faust's blindness and the inner light complete the collection.

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Cover

Half-Title Page

pp. i

Series Page

pp. ii

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv-vi

Dedication

pp. vii-viii

Table of Contents

pp. ix-x

Preface

pp. xi-xiii

Acknowledgments

pp. xiv-xv

List of Abbreviations

pp. xvi

Introduction

pp. 1-8

I. Chalice and Skull: A Goethean Answer to Faust’s Cognitional Dilemma

pp. 9-21

II. “… bald mit Blättern, bald mit Blüten…”: Metamorphoses of Nature and of Man in Faust

pp. 22-38

III. The Song of Lynkeus: “Zum Sehen geboren,/ Zum Schauen bestellt”

pp. 39-49

IV. The Theme of Sacrifice and the Question of Faust’s Redemption

pp. 50-67

V. “Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart”: Thoughts on the Sources of Poetic Creativity in View of Goethe’s Image of Man

pp. 68-92

VI. Zoilo-Thersites: Another “sehr ernster Scherz” in Goethe’s Faust II

pp. 93-102

VII. Faust’s Blindness and the Inner Light: Some Questions for the Future

pp. 103-131

Appendix. A Note on Goethe’s Epistemology in Contrast to Kant

pp. 132-134

Bibliography

pp. 135-140
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