Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

While Goethe loved Homeric epic, at the same time, the figure of Homer himself was a source of deep literary anxiety for him. Goethe could translate epic, even masterfully, but he shrunk back from attempting to compose a serious full-length epic of his own. Who could vie with the great nonpareil? he wrote. Reading Wolf's Prolegomena was a significant turning point for Goethe. So greatly had he revered his Homer, that at first, he angrily rejected the idea of an Iliad and Odyssey composed by a succession of illiterate rhapsodes. Gradually, however, with the help of scholarly Weimar friends, he allowed himself to be convinced. Once freed from the idea of a single, monolithic Homer, Goethe experienced a joyous creative rebirth. Why should he not be a rhapsode himself, if only the last of Homer's children? The result was an idyll: Herman und Dorothea, which he adorned with nostalgic love, a hero and heroine on a truly Homeric scale, and a fruitful and thoroughly German landscape. With Hermann und Dorothea, Goethe honored not only Homer, but also his own people and times, celebrating what rhapsodes have always sung: the shadow of war and the love of home.
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ISBN 13 9780486478036
ISBN 10 0486478033
Titel Wuthering Heights
Autor Emily Bronte
Serie Thrift Editions
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Dover Publications Inc.
Erscheinungsjahr 2010-08-27
Seitenanzahl 352
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