Sprachskepsis und Poetologie (eBook)
Goethes Romane 'Die Wahlverwandtschaften' und 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre'
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2008
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1. Auflage
240 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-484-97037-3 (ISBN)
240 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-484-97037-3 (ISBN)
In his late novels, Goethe formulates a profound critique of language and thus challenges his own capacity to represent. Goethe's fundamental scepticism about language derives from an irresolvable ambiguity of words coupled with limitations on their expressiveness; in the case of Elective Affinities and Journeyman Years this leads to the conception of an open work of art. Using detailed textual analysis, Christian Mittermüller reconstructs a hitherto scarcely recognised connection between scepticism about language and poetic theory, and in so doing opens up a new avenue for approaching Goethe's late works.
Christian Mittermüller.
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Christian Mittermüller.