Metamimesis

Metamimesis
Author: Mattias Pirholt
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1571135340

Reconsiders the role played by mimesis - and by Goethe's Wilhelm Meister as a mimetic work - in the novels of Early German Romanticism. Mimesis, or the imitation of nature, is one of the most important concepts in eighteenth-century German literary aesthetics. As the century progressed, classical mimeticism came increasingly under attack, though it also held its position in the works of Goethe, Schiller, and Moritz. Much recent scholarship construes Early German Romanticism's refutation of mimeticism as its single distinguishing trait: the Romantics' conception of art as the very negationof the ideal of imitation. In this view, the Romantics saw art as production (poiesis): imaginative, musical, transcendent. Mattias Pirholt's book not only problematizes this view of Romanticism, but also shows that reflections on mimesis are foundational for the German Romantic novel, as is Goethe's great pre-Romantic novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Among the novels examined are Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde, shown to be transgressive in its use of the aesthetics of imitation; Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen, interpreted as an attempt to construct the novel as a self-imitating world; and Clemens Brentano's Godwi, seen to signal the endof Early Romanticism, both fulfilling and ironically deconstructing the self-reflective mimeticism of the novels that came before it. Mattias Pirholt is a Research Fellow in the Department of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1995-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780691043456

Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his experimentation with narrative and perspective. A traditional cycle of novellas, Conversations of German Refugees deals with the impact and significance of the French Revolution and suggests Goethe's ideas on the social function of his art. Goethe's last novel, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, is a sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and to Conversations of German Refugees and is considered to be his most remarkable novel in form.

Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman

Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman
Author: Frederick Amrine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108477682

A fresh reading of the Willhelm Meister novels that dismisses the notion of the Bildungsroman to reveal unities between the texts.

The Apprenticeship Novel

The Apprenticeship Novel
Author: Randolph P. Shaffner
Publisher: New York : P. Lang
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1984
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The idea that a young person can become adept in the art of life by passing through definite stages, until at last he becomes a master, lives at the core of the apprenticeship novel. Recognized among German critics as the «Bildungsroman», this type of novel has yet to be adequately defined on a grand scale for the English reader despite nearly two centuries of its development. In an attempt to describe the apprenticeship novel as a modifiable type in Western literature, Mr. Shaffner combines a theoretical stance with analyses of three concrete examples drawn from over a hundred potential candidates.

The German Refugees

The German Refugees
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781903517444

"A new translation by an award winning translator rescues Goethe's collection of stories, modelled on the Decameron, from being out of print in English." "A family of German nobles have been forced from their home on the left bank of the Rhine by the French Revolution. Their peace is further disrupted by the arguments between the young Karl, a supporter of the ideals of the revolution, and the other men. The Baroness saves the family situation by suggesting they amuse each other by telling stories." "There are seven in all: two short ghost stories, two amorous anecdotes and two more substantial moral tales, the whole being concluded with Goethe's richly worked, fantastic, symbolic, allegorical 'Fairy Tale'." "The German Refugees was first published in 1795."--BOOK JACKET.

A History of the Bildungsroman

A History of the Bildungsroman
Author: Sarah Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107136539

This detailed analysis of the evolution of the Bildungsroman genre is unprecedented in its historical and geographical range.

Thinking on Thresholds

Thinking on Thresholds
Author: Subha Mukherji
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 085728665X

Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.

Song Acts

Song Acts
Author: Lawrence Kramer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9004342133

This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer’s seminal writings on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. All examine the formative role of culture in musical meaning and performance, and all seek to demonstrate the complexity and nuance that arise when words and music interact. The diverse topics include words and music, music and poetry, subjectivity, the sublime, mourning, sexuality, decadence, orientalism, the body, war, Romanticism, modernity, and cultural change. Several of the earlier essays have been revised for this volume, which also contains a preface by the author and a foreword by Richard Leppert. The volume should be essential reading for scholars, students, performing musicians, and other music-lovers interested in musicology, word-music relationships, cultural studies, aesthetics, and intermediality.