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3: An Alphabet of Experience: Montaigne
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T.J. Reed
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Note on Quotations and Translations ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction: Processes 1
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Part I Antiquity
- 1: Homer’s Audiences: Shaping the Iliad (and the Odyssey) 17
- 2: Fourfold Genesis: The Bible between Literature and Authority 37
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Part II Early Modern
- 3: An Alphabet of Experience: Montaigne 55
- 4: Beginner’s Luck: Shakespeare’s History Cycles 78
- Transition—Tradition 100
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Part III Goethe
- 5: Cross-Purposes: Goethe’s Faust 101
- 6: Occasions: Goethe’s Lyric Poetry 125
- 7: Live and Learn: Werther and Wilhelm Meister 146
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Part IV Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German
- 8: Writing on the Run: Georg Büchner’s Revolutions 161
- 9: “The Best-Laid Schemes. . .”: Thomas Mann Unplanned 174
- 10: Description of a Struggle: Kafka’s Half-Escape 191
- 11: Atomic Beginnings: Brecht, Galileo, and After 209
- 12: Knowing and Partly Knowing: Paul Celan’s Mission 220
- 13: Christa Wolf: A Fall from Grace 231
- Afterword 239
- Notes 241
- Bibliography 281
- Index 295
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Note on Quotations and Translations ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction: Processes 1
-
Part I Antiquity
- 1: Homer’s Audiences: Shaping the Iliad (and the Odyssey) 17
- 2: Fourfold Genesis: The Bible between Literature and Authority 37
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Part II Early Modern
- 3: An Alphabet of Experience: Montaigne 55
- 4: Beginner’s Luck: Shakespeare’s History Cycles 78
- Transition—Tradition 100
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Part III Goethe
- 5: Cross-Purposes: Goethe’s Faust 101
- 6: Occasions: Goethe’s Lyric Poetry 125
- 7: Live and Learn: Werther and Wilhelm Meister 146
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Part IV Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German
- 8: Writing on the Run: Georg Büchner’s Revolutions 161
- 9: “The Best-Laid Schemes. . .”: Thomas Mann Unplanned 174
- 10: Description of a Struggle: Kafka’s Half-Escape 191
- 11: Atomic Beginnings: Brecht, Galileo, and After 209
- 12: Knowing and Partly Knowing: Paul Celan’s Mission 220
- 13: Christa Wolf: A Fall from Grace 231
- Afterword 239
- Notes 241
- Bibliography 281
- Index 295