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Goethe and Digital Literacy

Goethe’s Italian Journey is a voluminous text. More than 500 pages long, it provides a sometimes very detailed account of Goethe’s two-year journey to Italy (1786-88). The travelogue is written in the style of a diary, whose entries cover everything from seemingly mundane weather reports to quasi-ethnographic descriptions of contemporary Italian people and culture. Although there are… Read more »