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The Age of Goethe is widely viewed as the apogee of German culture. Its writers and thinkers, especially Goethe, have been exalted as role models for life and art, particularly after 1945. Yet in the 1970s, a new generation of German writers in both East and West rebelled against the postwar hagiography, taking up a tradition of imaginatively engaging with the giants of the period, casting them in major roles in their works in order to critique the nation's past and its present, a tradition that has been carried on by more contemporary writers. This is the first book-length study devoted to modern German 'author-as-character' fiction set in the Age of Goethe. It shows for the first time in a sustained manner the powerful hold the 'Goethezeit' continues to exercise on the imagination of many of Germany's leading writers. This inner-German dialogue across the ages provides an important corrective to the dominant critical view that contemporary German-language literature is composed primarily under the sign of both globalization and the influence of mass American culture. The book will be of interest to both scholars of the 'Goethezeit' and of contemporary German literature and culture. John D. Pizer is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University.

Authors in literature. --- Biographical fiction, German --- German literature --- Historical drama, German --- Historical fiction, German --- Künstlerromane --- Künstlerromane --- History and criticism. --- Appreciation --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- In literature. --- German biographical fiction --- German fiction --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- Goethe --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von --- Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- Hete, Johann Vol'fhanh --- Gete, Iogann Vol'fgang --- ゲーテ --- ゲエテ --- Gete, Volʹfgang --- Ko-tê --- Gede --- Gete, Jogann --- Gette --- Gʹote, Ĭokhan Volʹfgang --- Jūtah, Yūhān Fūlfjānj --- Goethe, J. W. --- Jītī --- Gete, V. --- Koetʻe --- Goetʻe --- Getė, --- Gkaite --- Gitah, Y. Ṿ. --- Goethe, Jan Wolfgan, --- Gëte, Iogann Volʹfgang --- Göte --- Gyoete --- Goethe, W. v. --- Fon-Geteh, Ṿ. --- Geteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon --- -Giteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon --- -Gete, Johan Volfgang --- Hete, Ĭ. V. --- Kēōtʻē, Volfkank --- Katē --- Katē, Yōkān̲ Vulpkēṅk Vān̲ --- Гете, Иоганн Вольфганг --- Qöte, Y. V. --- Qöte, Yohan Volfqanq --- גטה --- גטה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, --- גטה, י.ו --- גיתה --- גיתה, יוהאן וולפאנג פון --- גיתה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגאנג וון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג פון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג, --- געטהע --- געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג --- געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג פון, --- געטהע, יאהאן װאלפגאנג, --- געטהע, י. וו --- געטהע, י. וו. פאן --- געטהע, י. װ., --- געטהע, י.װ --- געטע, װ.פ --- גתה, וו --- גתה, יוהן וולפגאנג ון, --- גתה, יוהן וולפגנג --- י. וו. געטהע --- جوته --- گوته، يوهان ولفگانگ ون --- 歌德, --- Age of Goethe. --- German culture. --- author-as-character fiction. --- globalization. --- inner-German dialogue. --- mass American culture. --- modern German literature.