Concerning the general topic of the Master’s dissertation, I sit back in my chair, drum my fingers on my desk and ponder: “Motivation, Motivation, Where for art thou, Motivation?”
There are a range of activities that have filled up my days following my last essay hand-in–none of which having much to do with my dissertation [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Goethe’
May 29, 2008
Copious Amounts of Coffee in a Karl Marx Mug
January 30, 2008
Is Anybody Out There?
When it comes to idealistic prose, none other can top Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werther in my humble opinion. I first read the work years ago, letter by letter, slowly digesting Werther’s agony and self-punishment for loving someone he shouldn’t. Perhaps in result of spending so much time with the text, ever [...]
October 6, 2007
Transatlanticists against Transcendentalists
A quick thought before it disappears into the catacombs of my mind forever:
Transatlantic study removes borders and boundaries and focuses on the region as a collective whole, a region of exchange that ranges from influential to detrimental.
However non-conventional this approach may be, why stop at the Transatlantic region? Surely, exchange is greater in scope [...]
