Goethe`s Ghosts – Reading and the Persistence of Literature: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Introduction-Ghosts and the Machine: Reading with Jane Brown Egologies: Goethe, Entoptics, and the Instruments of Writing Life Goethe's Haunted Architectural Idea "Über allen Gipfeln": The Poem as Hieroglyph Goethe's Hauskapelle and Sacred Choral Music From Haunting Visions to Revealing (Self-)Reflections: The Goethean Hero between Subject and Object Mephisto or the Spirit of Laughter Shipwreck with Spectators: Ideologies of Observation in Goethe's Faust II Constructing the Nation: Volk, Kulturnation, and Eros in Faust Gretchen's Ghosts: Goethe, Adorno, and the Literature of Refuge "I'll burn my books!": Faust(s), Magic, Media The Imagination of Freedom: Goethe and Hegel as Contemporaries Effacement vs. Exposure of the Poetic Act: Philosophy and Literature as Producers of "History" (Hegel vs. Goethe) Toward an Environmental Aesthetics: Depicting Nature in the Age of Goethe "Ein heimlich Ding": The Self as Object in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff "Ja, Goethe über alles und immer!": Benn's "Double Life" in His Letters to F. W. Oelze (1932-56) Bibliography of Jane K. Brown's Publications Notes on the Contributors Index