Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Issues: some implications of the link between love and death -- Incorporating tradition -- Frau Welt. Venereal disease. Femmes fatales -- Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Stella: ein Schauspiel für Liebende -- Intrusions of the supernatural -- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: identity and difference -- Poetic ambiguity: "Selige Sehnsucht" -- Die Wahlverwandtschaften: romantic metafiction -- Love and death in Faust -- Truth. Paradox. Irony -- Virtuosity.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Love and Death in Goethe: "One and Double" explores the meaning of the central theme of Romantic poetry in the works of the most important Romantic poet of all. Students of literary culture, both the lay reader and the Goethe specialist, will be enlightened by its approach."--Jacket.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,1749-1832-- Criticism and interpretation.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,1749-1832-- Critique et interprétation.