Love and death in Goethe
Subtitle: one and double
By: Ellis Dye
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation; Love in literature; Death in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-311) and index
Table of contents: title: Issues: some implications of the link between love and death; title: Incorporating tradition; title: Frau Welt. Venereal disease. Femmes fatales; title: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers; title: Stella: ein Schauspiel für Liebende; title: Intrusions of the supernatural; title: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: identity and difference; title: Poetic ambiguity: "Selige Sehnsucht"; title: Die Wahlverwandtschaften: romantic metafiction; title: Love and death in Faust; title: Truth. Paradox. Irony; title: Virtuosity