{"id":184,"date":"2012-06-04T17:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?p=184"},"modified":"2012-06-04T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:25:33","slug":"fausts-membership-in-male-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/fausts-membership-in-male-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Faust\u2019s Membership in Male Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning with two of Goethe\u2019s most famous poems, \u201cGanymed\u201d and \u201cPrometheus,\u201d this essay argues that\u00a0Faust\u00a0unites the receptive, submissive, self-dissolving masculinity of \u201cGanymed\u201d with the defiant, dominant, ego-centric masculinity of \u201cPrometheus.\u201d As the essay asserts, \u201cFaust\u2019s masculine desire for the eternal feminine must be routed through the male Mephistopheles, in the process putting into question the nature of male and female.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaust\u2019s Membership in Male Society,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Interpreting Goethe\u2019s \u201cFaust\u201d Today<\/span>, ed. Jane K. Brown, Meredith Lee, Thomas Saine, Paul Hernadi, Cyrus Hamlin (Columbia, SC:\u00a0 Camden, 1994) 17-28.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning with two of Goethe\u2019s most famous poems, \u201cGanymed\u201d and \u201cPrometheus,\u201d this essay argues that\u00a0Faust\u00a0unites the receptive, submissive, self-dissolving masculinity of \u201cGanymed\u201d with the defiant, dominant, ego-centric masculinity of \u201cPrometheus.\u201d As the essay asserts, \u201cFaust\u2019s masculine desire for the eternal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/fausts-membership-in-male-society\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Faust\u2019s Membership in Male Society<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4349,12130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-published-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}