Contents -- 1. Introduction: Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship -- Notes -- Part I. Voices of Friendship: A Conceptual Dialogue -- 2. Good Willing and the Practice of Friendship-A Dialogue (John H. Smith) -- Notes -- Part II. Literary Archaeologies (I): Codes of Friendship and Paternity in German Classicism -- 3. Connotations of Friendship and Love in Schiller's Philosophical Letters and Hölderlin's Hyperion (Walter Hinderer) -- Notes -- 4. German Classicism and the Law of the Father (Peter Uwe Hohendahl) -- Notes -- 5. Allusions to and Inversions of Plato in Hölderlin's Hyperion (Mark W. Roche) -- Notes -- 6. How Fireproof You Are: Father-Daughter Tales of Loss and Survival (Karin Schutjer) -- Notes -- Part III. Literary Archaeologies (II): Codes of Friendship and Paternity in German Romanticism -- 7. Mediation and Domination: Paternity, Violence, and Art in Brentano's Godwi (John Lyon) -- Notes -- 8. Old Father Jupiter: On Kleist's Drama Amphitryon (Gerhard Kurz) -- Notes -- 9. Two Lovers, Three Friends (Jochen Hörisch) -- Notes -- Part IV. Languages of Friendship and Sexual Identity -- 10. The Love That Is Called Friendship and the Rise of Sexual Identity (Robert Tobin) -- Notes -- 11. Of National Poets and Their Female Companions (Herman Rapaport) -- Notes -- 12. Between Aufbruch and Secessio: Images of Friendship among Germans, Jews, and Gays (John Neubauer) -- Notes -- 13. Women's Comedy and Its Intellectual Fathers: Marx as the Answer to Freud (Gail Finney) -- Notes -- Part V. Simulations of Friendship and Paternity, Claims of Responsibility: The Case of Hannah Arendt -- 14. Friendship and Responsibility: Arendt to Auden (David Halliburton) -- Notes -- 15. On Friendship in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt Reads Walter Benjamin (Liliane Weissberg) -- Notes -- Part VI. Textual Paternity and Friendship: Figures of Reading.

16. Odysseus's Tattoo: On Daniel Ganzfried's The Sender and Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments (Rafaël Newman & Caroline Wiedmer) -- Notes -- 17. Of Friends and Mentors (Donald Brown) -- Notes -- 18. Shprintze, or Metathesis: On the Rhetoric of the Fathers in Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman (Howard Stern) -- Notes -- 19. Middlebrowbeat (Laurence A. Rickels) -- Notes -- 20. The Democratic Father (Credit and Crime in Metaphor) (A. Kiarina Kordela) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 21. The Shadow of the Modern: Gothic Ghosts in Stoker's Dracula and Kafka's Amerika (Mark M. Anderson) -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Works of Stanley Corngold -- Princeton Dissertations in German and Comparative Literature Directed by Stanley Corngold -- Contributors.