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Mignon's Afterlives - Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, New)
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Mignon's Afterlives - Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, New)
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By tracing the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character
in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Terence Cave explores
a phenomenal success story in the history of literature and music,
and more broadly of cultural history. Mignon steps out of the
shadow of its protagonist Wilhelm and fashions a destiny of her
own: she becomes the object of an obsessive interest that reached
its peak in the later nineteenth century but continues to
reverberate into the twenty-first century.
Mignon reappears - often as a character bearing a different name
but sharing an unmistakable family resemblance with her - in a wide
range of different literary works from Goethe himself via the
German Romantic Novel, Mme de Stael, George Sand, Nerval and
Baudelaire, Walter Scott and George Eliot to Gerhart Hauptmann and
Angela Carter. Her songs, set by dozens of composers from Reichardt
and Beethoven to Wolf, reverberated through the drawing-rooms and
concert-halls of nineteenth-century Europe. She is the heroine of
the most popular French opera of the late nineteenth century, and
she has featured in a number of films. She is fascinating because
she is poised on the threshold between childhood and adolescence,
aphasia and expressive power, words and music; she is a wanderer
who has lost her home, an exile who has been abducted and abused;
and the many stories in which her life is reenacted provide a
litmus test for key cultural values of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
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