The novel as archive
the genesis, reception, and criticism of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre
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Word Count
30,250 words, Guess
Page Count
121 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL373945M
- ISBN-101571130969
- OCLC Control Number39399030
- OCLC Control Numbernovelasarchivege0000bahr
- Library of Congress Control Number98035703
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- Goodreads376163
Classifications
- DDC833/.6
- LCCPT1982 .B34 1998
Description
"A fresh study of one of the most perplexing and daring novels ever written, one that was largely misunderstood when it first appeared, and which has emerged only in the last two decades as a work that pointed forward, stylistically and structurally, to the modernist novels of the twentieth century. Goethe's contemporaries not only failed to understand the work, but some of them criticized it as the inferior work of a fading talent. Bahr shows how Goethe subordinated the role of the author-narrator, making use of a variety of sophisticated narrative devices, such as the invention of an "editor" working with "archival" materials and interpolated novellas (some of whose characters appear as "real" figures in the novel itself) to distance himself from the work and thus ironize its apparent meanings."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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