num_pages: 264
description: Burgess (German, U. of Aberdeen, Scotland) applies a concordance, a word-processor, and a spreadsheet to the German text of the 1809 novel. He underpins the close textual analysis with references to the personal, cultural, and scientific background against which the novel was composed. After explaining his methods, he discusses such matters as leitmotifs, relationships, direct and indirect speech between central characters, the manipulative narrator, and the quantifiable stylistic features of passages by fictional authors within the novel. He includes no subject index. The text is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften: The Enigma of Elective Affinities
titlecomplete: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften: The Enigma of Elective Affinities (Studies in German Language & Literature)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr