Mignon's Afterlives: Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century

by Terence Cave

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By tracing the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Terence Cave explores a phenomenal success story in the history of literature and music, and more broadly of cultural history. Mignon steps out of the shadow of its protagonist Wilhelm and fashions a destiny of her own: she becomes the object of an obsessive interest that reached its peak in the later nineteenth century but continues to...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199604800

ISBN13:9780199604807

Release Date:November 2011

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Music

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