Frederick Amrine

Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman

Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781108477680
• ISBN-10: 1108477682
• Artikelnr.: 59329987

Autorenporträt

Frederick Amrine is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in German Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published more than a hundred books on topics ranging from Goethe's scientific work to Rudolf Steiner. Recent publications include a collection of essays entitled Thresholds (2017), and Kicking Away the Ladder (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking the Bildungsroman
2. The picaresque novel: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship II-VI
3. The comic novel: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship I, VII and VIII
4. Interlude: the 'Sick Prince'
5. The romance: Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years.