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Weimaraner Weltbewohner: Zur Genese von Goethes Begriff 'Weltliteratur'. By MANFRED KOCH. (Communicatio, 29) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2002. viii + 285 pp. 46 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-63029-9 (pbk).
Manfred Koch's monograph is neatly divided into two halves of identical length. The first reviews the intellectual context by examining eighteenth-century ideas on nationalism and globalization, the second proceeds to the main subject: the evolution of Goethe's concept of world literature. Each half is subdivided a further three times into an introductory section, followed by consideration of a few preliminary examples, and finally the major case studies: Herder and Wilhelm von...
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