Description: New essays from leading Goethe scholars providing testimony to the continuing, even renewed, relevance of Goethe for literary studies today.
Review Quotes: If the introduction by the editors bears the subtitle 'Reading with Jane Brown, ' and the volume as a whole, in allusion to Brown's 2007 monograph on allegory, the subtitle Reading and the Persistence of Literature, Richter and Block assert the claim to the survival and continuance of an exact reading practice, a 'reading' in Jane K. Brown's sense: the intensive, at times even hair-splitting reading of literary texts. The contributions in this worthy volume . . . prove them right.-- "GOETHE-JAHRBUCH"