Title: Mignon's afterlives : crossing cultures from Goethe to the twenty-first century / Terence Cave.
Authors: Cave, Terence.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Characters Mignon.; Mignon (Fictitious character); European literature History and criticism.; European literature History and criticism.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.