Mignon's Afterlives: Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century
Cave, TerenceAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song opera, and film.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song opera, and film.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Mignon corpus : preliminary considerations -- Mignon in Germany : from Goethe to Stifter -- Nineteenth-century French afterlives -- Nineteenth-century English afterlives -- Mignon's modern and postmodern survivals -- Mignon's songs : making music out of fiction -- The Mignon corpus : a synoptic view -- Conclusion: A future for Mignon.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Mignon (Fictitious character)
European literature
European literature
Languages & Literatures
Germanic Literature
Literature - General