Wilhelm Meister
Title | Wilhelm Meister PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | Alma Books |
Pages | 881 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0714547689 |
Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant's son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous quest of self-discovery. Along his path he finds himself having to negotiate love, desire and the need to face up to his own past and responsibilities.
Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder Die Entsagenden
Title | Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder Die Entsagenden PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 1821 |
Genre | |
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Wilhelm Meister and His English Kinsmen
Title | Wilhelm Meister and His English Kinsmen PDF eBook |
Author | Susanne Howe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | Apprentices |
ISBN |
Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants
Title | Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1995-11-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780691043456 |
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.
Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Title | Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Veronica Curran |
Publisher | Camden House |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781571131188 |
The first detailed reader's commentary on one of the seminal works of world literature. Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre is commonly acknowledged to have played a pivotal role in founding the genre known as the Bildungsroman. Although a wealth of critical material has accumulated since its publication in 1795-96, a detailed commentary in English on this novel of `apprenticeship' has been lacking from the corpus. Jane V. Curran's full-length commentary fills this gap. In her analysis, Curran presents the standard material familiar from traditional commentaries, but includes passages hitherto neglected, presenting new insights in a new form. Curran stresses the importance of narrative techniques, traces the development of the characters, and draws the reader'sattention to the intertextual echoes, the use of symbols, and the many instances of irony. Curran also points out parallels between Wilhelm Meister's experiences and Goethe's life, and illuminates contemporary issues that are touched on in the novel, particularly the development of the German theater. The book provides notes with additional information for the interpretation of Goethe's work, including factual details of general interest, scholarly sources, and background information. This is a vade mecum not only for students of Goethe and of German literature, but also for all those interested in the development of the Bildungsroman. Jane V. Curran is chair of the German Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Metamimesis
Title | Metamimesis PDF eBook |
Author | Mattias Pirholt |
Publisher | Camden House |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1571135340 |
Reconsiders the role played by mimesis - and by Goethe's Wilhelm Meister as a mimetic work - in the novels of Early German Romanticism. Mimesis, or the imitation of nature, is one of the most important concepts in eighteenth-century German literary aesthetics. As the century progressed, classical mimeticism came increasingly under attack, though it also held its position in the works of Goethe, Schiller, and Moritz. Much recent scholarship construes Early German Romanticism's refutation of mimeticism as its single distinguishing trait: the Romantics' conception of art as the very negationof the ideal of imitation. In this view, the Romantics saw art as production (poiesis): imaginative, musical, transcendent. Mattias Pirholt's book not only problematizes this view of Romanticism, but also shows that reflections on mimesis are foundational for the German Romantic novel, as is Goethe's great pre-Romantic novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Among the novels examined are Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde, shown to be transgressive in its use of the aesthetics of imitation; Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen, interpreted as an attempt to construct the novel as a self-imitating world; and Clemens Brentano's Godwi, seen to signal the endof Early Romanticism, both fulfilling and ironically deconstructing the self-reflective mimeticism of the novels that came before it. Mattias Pirholt is a Research Fellow in the Department of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman
Title | Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Amrine |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2020-04-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108477682 |
A fresh reading of the Willhelm Meister novels that dismisses the notion of the Bildungsroman to reveal unities between the texts.