{"id":239,"date":"2012-06-04T19:19:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?p=239"},"modified":"2016-06-13T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T18:47:54","slug":"constructing-the-nation-faust-and-faust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/published-pieces\/constructing-the-nation-faust-and-faust\/","title":{"rendered":"Constructing the Nation: Faust and  Faust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This essay looks at the nation in Goethe\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Faust<\/span>, arguing that both the <em>v\u00f6lkisch<\/em> nation of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Faust I<\/span> and the Holy Roman Empire as <em>Kulturnation<\/em> in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Faust II<\/span> fail because of their inability to accommodate eros. Whether Faust\u2019s own nation in Act V of\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Faust II<\/span> will do better remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstructing the Nation: Faust and\u00a0\u00a0Faust,\u201d forthcoming in\u00a0Goethe\u2019s Ghost: Reading and the Persistence of Literature, ed. by Richard Block and Simon Richter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay looks at the nation in Goethe\u2019s Faust, arguing that both the v\u00f6lkisch nation of Faust I and the Holy Roman Empire as Kulturnation in Faust II fail because of their inability to accommodate eros. Whether Faust\u2019s own nation &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/published-pieces\/constructing-the-nation-faust-and-faust\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Constructing the Nation: Faust and  Faust<\/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":[12130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}