The short happy life of Goethe’s Faust, or Hieros Gamos as the center of the tragedy

Alexander Dobrokhotov ()
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Alexander Dobrokhotov: National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)

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Abstract: This paper explores the implications of the central episode of the second part of «Faust» - the story of Faust and Helen of Troy’s marriage - and shows that the episode contains a more positive concept of the history of European culture than the conclusion of the tragedy

Keywords: Goethe; Weimar Classicism; poetry; person; Byron; Helen of Troy; Das Ewig Weibliche; holy marriage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, March 2013, pages 1-14

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