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Mignon's afterlives : crossing cultures from Goethe to the twenty-first century / Terence Cave.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cave, Terence.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Du Terrail, Sophie, comtesse.
- Mignon (Fictitious character).
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Characters--Mignon.
- European literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- European literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film.
- Contents:
- The Mignon corpus : preliminary considerations
- Mignon in Germany : from Goethe to Stifter
- Nineteenth-century French afterlives
- Nineteenth-century English afterlives
- Mignon's modern and postmodern survivals
- Mignon's songs : making music out of fiction
- The Mignon corpus : a synoptic view
- Conclusion: A future for Mignon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages [287]-297) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780199604807
- 0199604800
- OCLC:
- 707266113
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