The novel as archive : the genesis, reception, and criticism of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre /

The novel as archive : the genesis, reception, and criticism of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre /

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Author / Creator:Bahr, Ehrhard.
Imprint:Columbia, S.C. : Camden House, 1998.
Description:xviii, 121 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subject:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832. -- Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre.
Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von)
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3497995
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ISBN:1571130969
9781571130969
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-114) and index.
Summary:"A fresh study of one of the most perplexing and daring novels ever written, one that was largely misunderstood when it first appeared, and which has emerged only in the last two decades as a work that pointed forward, stylistically and structurally, to the modernist novels of the twentieth century. Goethe's contemporaries not only failed to understand the work, but some of them criticized it as the inferior work of a fading talent. Bahr shows how Goethe subordinated the role of the author-narrator, making use of a variety of sophisticated narrative devices, such as the invention of an "editor" working with "archival" materials and interpolated novellas (some of whose characters appear as "real" figures in the novel itself) to distance himself from the work and thus ironize its apparent meanings."--BOOK JACKET.

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