Love and death in Goethe : "one and double" /
Dye, Ellis,1936-
Rochester, N.Y. ; Woodbridge : Camden House,
2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-311) and index.
Issues: some implications of the link between love and death -- Incorporating tradition -- Frau Welt. Venereal disease. Femmes fatales -- Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Stella: ein Schauspiel für Liebende -- Intrusions of the supernatural -- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: identity and difference -- Poetic ambiguity: "Selige Sehnsucht" -- Die Wahlverwandtschaften: romantic metafiction -- Love and death in Faust -- Truth. Paradox. Irony -- Virtuosity.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Love in literature.
Death in literature.