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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"”.
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Como vender a alma ao diabo em 4 lições ou o diabo como tentador da humanidade
… intitulada, “O Físico Prodigioso” e outra de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Fausto”, cujas temáticas estão ligadas à venda da alma.
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A Study of Mignon's Lied in Selected Settings
… given by composers to a twelve line poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The text is the common factor over which the differences of approach and treatment are laid by composers in compositions which range in time of initial publication from 1796 to 1888. The condition of the Lied immediately …
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Hebraism and Hellenism as seen in Sartor resartus and Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship
… comparison and contest.</p><p>Those Carlyle and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the authors under consideration here, have often been the subjects for this method of literary criticism. Much of this work has been done with the emphasis on influences, Indeed the influence of Goethe on Carlyle is now …
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Sociological Tragedy: Simmel and Weber on Selfhood and Action
… cultural and philosophical writers, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Nietzsche. The dissertation then uses these neglected overlaps and parallels to put forward a reading of Simmel more sensitive to traditionally “Weberian” themes, such as life-conduct in accordance with …
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The Enlightening Supernatural: Ghost Stories in the Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
… Karl Philipp Moritz, Friedrich Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In various ways, these texts demonstrate how the presentation of a ghost creates new possibilities in philosophy and aesthetics, as well as opportunities for critique. For some, the ghostly encounter produces an …
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A Transcendent View of Things: The Persistence of Metaphysics in Modern German Lyric Poetry, 1771-1908
My dissertation explores the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Eduard Mörike, and Rainer Maria Rilke, and it contends that these modern poets retain, albeit uneasily, a view of things as symbols of the transcendent divine. It thus disputes the secularization theory of post- Enlightenment …
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Bildung, the Beautiful Soul, and the German Enlightenment Salon
… celebrated philosophers of the Beautiful Soul, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), and how their ideas informed the activities of the two most widely recognized salons in post-revolutionary Berlin, those of Henriette Herz (1764-1847) and Rahel Varnhagen …
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Forging the Ideological Atlantic: West German-American Fête Diplomacy, 1945-1953
… the bicentennial of the birth of German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1949), the 900th anniversary of the city of Nuremberg (1950), cultural festivals in Berlin (1951) and Passau (1952), and the centennial of the year that Carl Schurz arrived in the United States (1952). In each of these …
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Expansion and contraction: Goethean polarity and architecture
As a historic figure, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) has been drawing interest in contemporary research in humanities due to his involvement in multiple fields such as literature, philosophy, natural sciences and aesthetics while having direct influence on the shaping of the Enlightenment …
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Western Historical Gardens and Chinese Influences--From Great Britain to Picturesque Royal garden in Piedmont
… garden, including Claude-Henri Watelet and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Ermenonville of the Marquis de Girardin was poetic nature had benefited from Rousseau’s novel. As the Monceau (1773), le Petit Trianon (1774-1787), Betz (1780-1789), La Folie Saint-James de Neuilly (1784) and the Désert …