Werther's Goethe and the Game of Literary Creativity - Hardcover

Werther's Goethe and the Game of Literary Creativity.

Cloth with dust jacket. Zustand: Sehr gut. 268 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben und an einigen Stellen verfärbt, Bleistifteintrag auf Schmutztitel, sonst gut und sauber /dust jacket slightly rubbed and discolored in some places, pencil entry on half title, otherwise good and clean. - Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werther has received a great deal of attention from the scholarly community over the years. But until now it has never been thoroughly explored or evaluated. Deirdre Vincent examines the two versions of Werther in the context of Goethe's personal life in the intervening years. Goethe wrote and published the original version of this novel to great acclaim throughout Europe in 1774, drawing on the experience of a traumatic love affair he had had in Wetzlar in 1772. When the revised work was published some thirteen years later, the public saw the second version as little more than a reissuing of the original, and scholars over the past two centuries have persisted in this view. Vincent analyses Goethe's mode of writing and the role that literary creativity played for him during the first ten years or so in Weimar. She reveals how greatly the second version differs from the first, and challenges conventional explanations for the changes. Vincent sheds new light on Werther and on some of Goethe's other important works written between 1776 and 1789 / Contents INTRODUCTION 1 Werther, Goethe, and Charlotte von Stein Life, Love, and Writing 1775-89 2 Writing and Rewriting 1776-90 Literary Game-playing Werther 1776-86 Other Works Revised 1786-9 3 The Changes in Werther Albert Lotte Werther The Editor's Report 4 Werther: The Case for a Rereading The Final Werther in the Light of the Final Tasso Goethe on Writing and Being Read A Closer Look at Our Critical Responses to Werther Werther: A Summary of the Need for Review APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY. ISBN 9780802050182 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Artikel-Nr. 1197805

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