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The very late Goethe : self-consciousness and the art of ageing / Charlotte Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Charlotte, author.
- Series:
- Germanic literatures ; 5.
- Germanic literatures ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Last years.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust--2.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Last years of a person's life.
- Physical Description:
- 152 pages ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Modern Humanities Research Assocaition and Maney Publishing, Legenda, 2014.
- Summary:
- Goethe's career was an unusually long and productive one: he became a literary celebrity in the 1770s and remained so until his death in 1832. The distinguishing feature of his last works is their self-consciousness, their preoccupation both with the business of writing and with personal development. In the first cross-genre study of this period of Goethe's work, Charlotte Lee traces the theme in his last major poems and autobiographical writings, before turning to the two 'giants', 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre' and 'Faust II'. All these works share a tendency to allude subtly to earlier moments from Goethe's own literary output, but to fashion them into writing which is quite new - even though (or perhaps because) he himself is old. This book seeks to understand the unique perspective of one nearing the end of a long life.
- Contents:
- 1 Poetry 17
- Two very late poems 17
- Trilogie der Leidenschaft 19
- Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten 27
- The Dornburg poems 30
- Coda 32
- 2 Autobiography 37
- Zweiter Römischer Aufenthalt 39
- Dichtung und Wahrheit, Vierter Teil 45
- 3 Prose Fiction 57
- Novelle 57
- Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre 60
- Self-conscious prose 62
- Rewriting in the Wanderjahre 65
- Secrets and the limitations of knowledge 71
- Debate and the avoidance of dogmatism 77
- Limitation and revelation 83
- 4 Faust 94
- The search for the ideal 96
- The search for the past 102
- The loss and return of the past 109
- The rejection of the past and delusions of a future 117
- Self-conscious poetry 120
- 'Bergschluchten' 124.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-149) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1909662127
- 9781909662124
- OCLC:
- 880131032
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