3: An Alphabet of Experience: Montaigne

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Quotations and Translations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Processes 1
6. Part I Antiquity
7. 1: Homer’s Audiences: Shaping the Iliad (and the Odyssey) 17
8. 2: Fourfold Genesis: The Bible between Literature and Authority 37
9. Part II Early Modern
10. 3: An Alphabet of Experience: Montaigne 55
11. 4: Beginner’s Luck: Shakespeare’s History Cycles 78
12. Transition—Tradition 100
13. Part III Goethe
14. 5: Cross-Purposes: Goethe’s Faust 101
15. 6: Occasions: Goethe’s Lyric Poetry 125
16. 7: Live and Learn: Werther and Wilhelm Meister 146
17. Part IV Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German
18. 8: Writing on the Run: Georg Büchner’s Revolutions 161
19. 9: “The Best-Laid Schemes. . .”: Thomas Mann Unplanned 174
20. 10: Description of a Struggle: Kafka’s Half-Escape 191
21. 11: Atomic Beginnings: Brecht, Galileo, and After 209
22. 12: Knowing and Partly Knowing: Paul Celan’s Mission 220
23. 13: Christa Wolf: A Fall from Grace 231
24. Afterword 239
25. Notes 241
26. Bibliography 281
27. Index 295