"Aus einem unbekannten Zentrum, zu einer nicht erkennbaren Grenze"
Subtitle: chaos theory, hermeneutics and Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften
By: Julie a. Reahard.
Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft -- 25
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832.; Hermeneutics.
Other titles: Chaos theory, hermeneutics and Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Description: "In an attempt to discover the "one-idea" with respect to which Goethe claimed he had worked while writing Die Wahlverwandtschaften, taking my cue from Goethe himself, I have united the investigational techniques of hermeneutics and complexity or chaos theory and brought them to bear on the structure of several of the mirroring events in the text. The overwhelming conclusion of this author is that, like those investigating chaos in nature, literary theorists must turn to comprehensive approaches if they wish to treat seriously the structure of texts as works which flow from nature: the nature of the human mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1991).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-81)