Goethe's Faust And European Epic »

Arnd Bohm is Associate Professor in the Department of German at Carleton University.

A reassessment of genre that fills a major gap in Goethe's oeuvre and initiates a radically new reading of Faust.

Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     1
Goethe's Epic Ambitions     5
The System of European Epic     20
Faust and Epic History     36
The Roots of Evil     87
"Auerbachs Keller" and Epic History     111
Faust as a Christian Epic     138
The Epic Encyclopedia     169
Postscript: Lest We Forget     213
Works Cited     225
Index     265