LEADER 04030nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910975006203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780814335703 010 $a0814335705 035 $a(CKB)2670000000151096 035 $a(EBL)3416426 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000673656 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11402935 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000673656 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10644064 035 $a(PQKB)10954551 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416426 035 $a(OCoLC)777595297 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19729 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416426 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533481 035 $a(OCoLC)923510517 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31349235 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31349235 035 $a(Perlego)4160371 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000151096 100 $a20050818d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe spell of Italy $evacation, magic, and the attraction of Goethe /$fRichard Block 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDetroit $cWayne State University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (323 p.) 225 1 $aKritik, German literary theory and cultural studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780814332696 311 08$a0814332692 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-293) and index. 327 $aOpened wounds: Winckelmann and the discovery of the art of the ancients -- Fathers and sons in Italy: the ghosts of Goethe's past -- Taking the words out of the father's mouth: Goethe's authorial triumph -- On Goethe's other trail: Heinrich Heine's grand de-tour -- The return of the repressed: Nietzsche and Freud -- Goethe's other Italy: the devil's playground -- Birthing Italy. 330 8 $aA study of the lure of Italy in German culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Wearied by his life as an administrator at the Duke's court in Weimar, in 1786 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe departed unannounced in the middle of the night for what had been the destination of his imagination since childhood: Italy. His extended stay there dramatically affected his views of art, architecture, prose, poetry, and science. When he returned to Germany and Weimar, Goethe's experiences translated into his life and work in ways that influenced countless others as they developed Germany's own brand of high culture. The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe tracks the peculiar space Italy occupies in the cultural consciousness of German writers by reconsidering the Italian journeys of Goethe and Winckelmann and the legacy of those journeys in the works of Heine, Nietzsche, Freud, Mann, Carossa, and Bachmann. Author Richard Block contests previous assumptions about Italy as a place to encounter classical culture and creative rebirth. His study examines the degree to which Germany's literary and cultural traditions appropriated a phantasmic Italy, showing how Winckelmann's art history and Goethe's Italian journey predisposed later writers to search for an aesthetic ideal in Italy that did not exist, and how their search for this absent ideal eventually resulted in disillusionment and deception. Building on previous work on Goethe, literary theory, and cultural history, The Spell of Italy offers compelling new ways of understanding Germany's fascination with Italy from the eighteenth century to its troubled political history of the twentieth century. 410 0$aKritik (Detroit, Mich.) 606 $aGerman literature$xItalian influences 607 $aItaly$xIn literature 607 $aGermany$xCivilization$xItalian influences 615 0$aGerman literature$xItalian influences. 676 $a830.9/3243 700 $aBlock$b Richard A$01813600 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910975006203321 996 $aThe spell of Italy$94366853 997 $aUNINA