Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995-11-05
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780691043456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his experimentation with narrative and perspective. A traditional cycle of novellas, Conversations of German Refugees deals with the impact and significance of the French Revolution and suggests Goethe's ideas on the social function of his art. Goethe's last novel, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, is a sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and to Conversations of German Refugees and is considered to be his most remarkable novel in form.
Author: Sarah V. Eldridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-06-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0190859288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the decades after its publication, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship served as a touchstone for such major philosophical and literary figures as Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, and Schlegel, and was widely understood to be one of the greatest novels of the German canon. But in the decades and centuries following, the attention it has received in both disciplines has diminished in comparison to either Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther or his Elective Affinities. This volume follows the impetus of its early respondents to examine deeply what exactly Goethe's long and complicated novel is doing, and how it engages with problems and themes of human life. An interdisciplinary group of eminent scholars grapple with the novel's engagement with central philosophical questions such as individuality, development, and authority; aesthetic formation and narrative (and human) contingency; and gender, sexuality, and marriage. That these questions and their working-through in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre are in tension with one another speaks ultimately to how literature explores philosophical questions in ways that are open-ended, creative, and contain potential for new and different solutions to living with them. This unique philosophical approach to the form and purpose of a literary masterpiece illuminates new inroads into a novel at once famously complex and influential, and into the projects of one Germany's greatest writers.
Author: Tobias Boes
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0801465214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature. Since the late eighteenth century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders," identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation. In Formative Fictions, Boes presents readings of a number of novels—Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Karl Leberecht Immermann's The Epigones, Gustav Freytag's Debit and Credit, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus among them—that have always been felt to be particularly "German" and compares them with novels by such authors as George Eliot and James Joyce to show that what seem to be markers of national particularity can productively be read as topics of world literature.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780714539249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frederick Amrine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-04-23
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1108477682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fresh reading of the Willhelm Meister novels that dismisses the notion of the Bildungsroman to reveal unities between the texts.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-12
Total Pages: 1051
ISBN-13: 0691181047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
Published: 1821
Total Pages: 574
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781903517444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A new translation by an award winning translator rescues Goethe's collection of stories, modelled on the Decameron, from being out of print in English." "A family of German nobles have been forced from their home on the left bank of the Rhine by the French Revolution. Their peace is further disrupted by the arguments between the young Karl, a supporter of the ideals of the revolution, and the other men. The Baroness saves the family situation by suggesting they amuse each other by telling stories." "There are seven in all: two short ghost stories, two amorous anecdotes and two more substantial moral tales, the whole being concluded with Goethe's richly worked, fantastic, symbolic, allegorical 'Fairy Tale'." "The German Refugees was first published in 1795."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
Published: 1901
Total Pages: 790
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