Goethe`s Faust and European Epic – Forgetting the Future Bohm Hardback

Goethe's Faust and European EpicForgetting the Future\nAuthor(s): Arnd Bohm\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781571133441, 978-1571133441\nSynopsis\nA reassessment of genre that fills a major gap in Goethe's oeuvre and initiates a radically new reading of Faust.\n\nGoethe has long been enshrined as the greatest German poet, but his admirers have always been uneasy with the idea that he did not produce a great epic poem. A master in all the other genres and modes, it has been felt, should have done so. Arnd Bohm proposes that Goethe did compose an epic poem, which has been hidden in plain view: Faust. Goethe saw that the Faust legends provided the stuff for a national epic: a German hero, a villain (Mephistopheles), a quest (to know all things), a sublime conflict (good versus evil), a love story (via Helen of Troy), and elasticity (all human knowledge could be accommodated by the plot). Bohm reveals the care w.