Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman - Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels

Informationen zum Autor Frederick Amrine is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in German Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published more than a hundred books on topics ranging from Goethe's scientific work to Rudolf Steiner. Recent publications include a collection of essays entitled Thresholds (2017), and Kicking Away the Ladder (2019). Klappentext A fresh reading of the Willhelm Meister novels that dismisses the notion of the Bildungsroman to reveal unities between the texts. Zusammenfassung A refreshingly unique reading of the most influential German novels. By jettisoning the problematical notion of the Bildungsroman! the second Wilhelm Meister novel is revealed as a sequel to the first. With a broad appeal to scholars and advanced students of German literature! Goethe and the Bildungsroman as a literary genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Rethinking the Bildungsroman; 2. The picaresque novel: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship II-VI; 3. The comic novel: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship I, VII and VIII; 4. Interlude: the 'Sick Prince'; 5. The romance: Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years.

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• Authors: Frederick Amrine, Frederick (University of Michigan Amrine, Amrine Frederick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108477680
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47768-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Germanic and Scandinavian languages