Goethe's Cyclical Narratives : "Die Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten" and "Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre"

• Tác giả: Jane K Brown
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9781469657189_Brown
• Thông tin xuất bản: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 1975
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (160 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 173546
• Chủ đề: 1. Literature: history & criticism

Tóm tắt

The novelty of this study lies in its techniques for understanding the deliberate narrative contradictions and elusive parody in Goethe's work. Interpretation of the entire "Unterhaltungen", including the Märchen, establishes Goethe's principles of cyclical composition. By pursuing the elaboration of these principles in the "Wanderjahre"-the undependable narrator, multiple perspectives, and parody of popular eighteenth-century figures-the author interprets the cultural and social significance of Goethe's most sophisticated novel.