Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Broschiertes Buch

Goethe, Volume 10

Conversations of German Refugees--Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years or The Renunciants

Herausgeber: Brown, Jane K.

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a German poet, writer, scientist, statesman, and one of the greatest German literary figures. Goethe, the eldest of seven children born in a wealthy Frankfurt family, studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg. He wrote novels and poetry, dramas, treatises on botany and literary criticism, among which his successful novels The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795). Early in his life, Goethe was a member of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, emphasizing free expression of emotions over the restraints of rationalism. Later, Goethe, together with Friedrich Schiller, initiated the Weimar Classicism, a cultural movement based on a synthesis of Romanticism, Classicism and the Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780691043456
• ISBN-10: 0691043450
• Artikelnr.: 21633320