Sprachskepsis und Poetologie: Goethes Romane ‚Die Wahlverwandtschaften‘ und ‚Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre‘

Christian Mittermüller

Published by Max Niemeyer Verlag 2008

Sprachskepsis und Poetologie

Goethes Romane ‚Die Wahlverwandtschaften‘ und ‚Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre‘

Linguistic Scepticism and Poetology in Goethe's novels "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" [Elective Affinities] and "Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre" [Journeyman Years]

Christian Mittermüller

Volume 116 in the series Hermaea. Neue Folge

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970373

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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.

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Christian Mittermüller.

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"Christian Mittermüller ist es in dieser Studie gelungen, die beiden Altersromane Goethes unter dem bisher wenig beachteten Gesichtspunkt des Zusammenhangs von Sprachskepsis und Dichtungstheorie zu betrachten und in kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Forschungsstand neue Deutungsperspektiven für Goethes Alterswerk zu eröffnen."
Henriette Herwig in: Goethe-Jahrbuch 125/2008

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Language: German
Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 234
Keywords: Goethe; Linguistic scepticism

eBook

Published: August 27, 2008
ISBN: 9783484970373

Hardcover

Published: April 16, 2008
ISBN: 9783484151161