Goethe's Allegories of Identity shows how Goethe's literary works, as the essential middle steps between Rousseau and Freud, lay the basis for modern depth psychology. Its illuminating scholarly yet a
In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is g
Provides a fresh interpretation of the nineteenth-century German masterpiece, describes Goethe's attitudes towards writers, composers, and artists, and suggests that he saw all art as a part of a trad
Can language hide thoughts? This question was answered by Harald Weinrich in this volume's title essay, first published in 1966 as Linguistik der Luge. Weinrich's essay, now in its sixth printing in G
Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees andWilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address v
