Studies in Goethe's Lyric Cycles

by Meredith Lee

Overview

The book presents a series of interpretive readings of the Romische Elegien, Sonette, Chinesisch-deutsche Jarhes- und Tageszeiten, several trilogies, and the shorter cycles of 1821, taking into account the variety of literary devices Goethe employs to link poems together into a cycle. The author examines Goethe's role in the history of the lyric cycle and, in stressing structural design, urges a reevaluation of the cycle's emergence as a standard poetic device.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469657776
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Series:	University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature , #93
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)

Editorial Reviews

Although cyclical analyses normally cannot avoid some measure of subjectivity, Lee's are practically never marred by the over-exegesis that often accompanies such studies. Imaginative interpretation is balanced by scrupulous but never burdensome use of relevant philological and other evidence.—The German Quarterly

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