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Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman - Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels (Hardcover)
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Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman - Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels (Hardcover)
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Goethe's Willhelm Meister novels, widely held to be the most
significant and influential in all of German literature, have
traditionally been classed as Bildungsroman, or 'novels of
formation'. In Goethe and the Myth of Bildungsroman, Frederick
Amrine offers a unique reading of Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre and
Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre, which posits the second novel as a
sequel to the first. Deconstructing and jettisoning the notion of
the Bildungsroman, the features of the novels which have
historically proved problematic for critics, seeming to testify to
the novels' disunity, become instead the articulation points of a
subtle concord between thematic and formal elements. Reading the
novels in light of the eminent criticism of Northrop Frye, this
book productively shifts away from social commentary towards the
archetypal and symbolic, showing Goethe not to be an exception
within world literature; rather, that he participates deeply in its
overarching structures.
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