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From: Goethe Proceedings: Essays Commemorating the Goethe Sesquicentennial at the University of California, Davis[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, lecture, originally delivered as a lecture in 1982 at the University of California, Davis, Jaszi explores Elective Affinities in terms of the “distance between the image and the...
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From: German Quarterly[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Bennett explains the differing perspectives of Werther and the editor of Werther’s papers and demonstrates how those perspectives affect a reader’s evolving understanding of the...
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From: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Continuing Vitality[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Gelley examines the variety of narrative structures simultaneously at play in Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, noting that the novel defies neat classification in this regard. Gelley...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5877)The carnival in Faust II does not take long to get out of hand. Already in Rome, in 1788, Goethe had found the uninhibited crowds that filled the Corso a bit much: "One has to have seen the Carnival in Rome, in order...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the dominant figure in the history of modern German literature, whose works established, in all the principal genres, models or norms which have dominated succeeding generations (whether...
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From: The Foreign Quarterly ReviewIn Goethe's Works, chronologically arranged, we see this above all things: A mind working itself into clearer and clearer freedom, gaining a more and more perfect dominion of its world. The pestilential fever of...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMikhail Bakhtin popularized the idea of carnival as a signifier of joyful relativism--a "temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order" (Rabelais 10). Carnivalemphasizes ambivalence, or...
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From:MLN (Vol. 108, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe erotic poem 'Romische Elegien' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe presents eroticism through an extinct language of letters, ciphers and meter. The elegies focuses on the spatial dissolution in the palindromes and...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5827)Henry James's writing is in many ways predicated on Goethe's achievement, either directly through his knowledge of Goethe's works, or indirectly via writers like Turgenev, George Eliot and Flaubert. Yet there has been...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA woman by the name of Miss T. Dalton has been identified as the first English translator of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play 'Stella.' She was identified from a single page in the 18th-century bookselling records of...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Werther effect refers to the tendency of people to commit suicide under the compulsion of imitation rather than for personal motivations. The name is derived from Goethe's novel, 'The Sorrows of Young Werther,' which...
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From:Tamkang Review (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay offers a reading of the famous eighteenth-century Chinese novel Honglou Meng [phrase omitted] in light of theories about the European Bildungsroman and in comparison to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel...
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From: A Reassessment of Weimar Classicism[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Burwick explores Goethe's utilization of dramatic tension between the rational and the irrational in Torquato Tasso.] It is quite likely that when Goethe first conceived the...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 99, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe present reading of Goethe's 'Prometheus' sets out to examine the new work to which the myth is put in the poem. His 'Prometheus' does not stand in a modern opposition to classical accounts of the myth. The poem...
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From:LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedA possible resolution of the novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809) may be found through the denial of the phenomenon of Carnival, that Goethe had experienced in Rome. Attention focuses on the tableaux vivants scene and...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 41, Issue 4)In Feb. 2008 issue of Word Ways, Philip Cohen reviews two books: (1) Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words by Barbara Wallraff (HarperCollins 2006), and (2) The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from...
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From: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Dowden argues that the apparently “slapdash” structure of Wilhelm Meister’s Travels is in fact a deliberate authorial attempt to shift interpretive responsibility to the reader....
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From:New England Review (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRome November 1, 1786. At last I can speak out, and greet my friends with good humour. May they pardon my secrecy, and what has been, as it were, a subterranean journey hither. For scarcely to myself did I venture to...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is undeniably one of the leading figures in Western literature, his reception in America in his own day was mixed at best. In fact, Goethe's stature was recognized by a select few in...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 154. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Buch Annette (poetry) 1767Die Laune des Verliebten (play) 1767Neue Lieder (poetry) 1769Rede Zum Schäkespears Tag (criticism) 1771Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand [Goetz of Berlichingen...