Goethe's cyclical narratives, Die Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre /
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| Author / Creator: | Brown, Jane K., 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1975. |
| Description: | vii, 144 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; 82 University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures no. 82. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/46509 |
| Summary: | 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 Marchen, 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally presented as the author's thesis, Yale. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 144 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. 135-141. |
| ISBN: | 0807880825 |