Metamimesis - Imitation in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German Romanticism

Reconsiders the role played by mimesis - and by Goethe's Wilhelm Meister as a mimetic work - in the novels of Early German Romanticism.

List of contents

Introduction
Romanticism, Mimesis, and the Novel
Double-Entry Imagery: Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Imitation and Indolence: Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde
Imitation and Simulation: Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Beyond Romantic Representation: Clemens Brentano's Godwi
Conclusions: Mimesis and the Critical Politics of Romanticism

About the author

Mattias Pirholt

Product details

• Authors: Mattias Pirholt
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9781571135346
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-534-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 487 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies