Sprachskepsis und Poetologie
About this book
In his late novels, Goethe formulates a profound critique of language and thus challenges his own capacity to represent. Goethe’s fundamental scepticism about language derives from an irresolvable ambiguity of words coupled with limitations on their expressiveness; in the case of Elective Affinities and Journeyman Years this leads to the conception of an open work of art. Using detailed textual analysis, Christian Mittermüller reconstructs a hitherto scarcely recognised connection between scepticism about language and poetic theory, and in so doing opens up a new avenue for approaching Goethe’s late works.
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Christian Mittermüller.
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"Christian Mittermüller ist es in dieser Studie gelungen, die beiden Altersromane Goethes unter dem bisher wenig beachteten Gesichtspunkt des Zusammenhangs von Sprachskepsis und Dichtungstheorie zu betrachten und in kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Forschungsstand neue Deutungsperspektiven für Goethes Alterswerk zu eröffnen."
Henriette Herwig in: Goethe-Jahrbuch 125/2008
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Frontmatter
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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I. Einleitung
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II. Sprachskeptische Horizontbildung
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III. ›Die Wahlverwandtschaften‹
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IV. ›Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre‹
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