UID:
edocfu_9959241885002883
Format:
1 online resource (240 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-19721-5
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9786612197215
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3-11-916456-9
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3-484-97037-5
Series Statement:
Hermaea, n.F., Bd. 116
Content:
In his late novels, Goethe formulates a profound critique of language and thus challenges his own capacity to represent. Goethe's fundamental scepticism about language derives from an irresolvable ambiguity of words coupled with limitations on their expressiveness; in the case of Elective Affinities and Journeyman Years this leads to the conception of an open work of art. Using detailed textual analysis, Christian Mittermüller reconstructs a hitherto scarcely recognised connection between scepticism about language and poetic theory, and in so doing opens up a new avenue for approaching Goethe'
Note:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, 2006.
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Dissertation Universität Freiburg 2007.
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Frontmatter --
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Inhaltsverzeichnis --
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I. Einleitung --
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II. Sprachskeptische Horizontbildung --
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III. ›Die Wahlverwandtschaften‹ --
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IV. ›Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre‹ --
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Backmatter
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Issued also in print.
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German
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-484-15116-1
Language:
German
DOI:
10.1515/9783484970373
