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Acknowledgments I: Introduction 1: In Search of Song II: Strophe, Variant, Version 2: Der Jungling am Bache: Schubert at the Source 3: The Aesthetics of Revision III: Distant Cycles 4: A Poetics of the Remote: Goethe's Entfernte 5: In der Ferne: Schubert's Rellstab 6: Schubert's Heine IV: The Cycles in Winterreise 7: Winterreise I 8: Winterreise II V: Mysticism, Ecstasy, and the Sublime 9: Schlegel's Abendrote and the Failure of Cycle List of Works Cited Index of Names and Works
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Acknowledgments I: Introduction 1: In Search of Song II: Strophe, Variant, Version 2: Der Jungling am Bache: Schubert at the Source 3: The Aesthetics of Revision III: Distant Cycles 4: A Poetics of the Remote: Goethe's Entfernte 5: In der Ferne: Schubert's Rellstab 6: Schubert's Heine IV: The Cycles in Winterreise 7: Winterreise I 8: Winterreise II V: Mysticism, Ecstasy, and the Sublime 9: Schlegel's Abendrote and the Failure of Cycle List of Works Cited Index of Names and Works
Summary
Argues that Schubert envisioned many songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these "distant cycles" and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain.
