Mignon's afterlives : crossing cultures from Goethe to the twenty-first century /
Cave, Terence.
Mignon's afterlives : crossing cultures from Goethe to the twenty-first century / Terence Cave. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - xvi, 305 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and indexes.
The Mignon corpus : preliminary considerations -- Mignon in Germany : from Goethe to Stifter -- Nineteenth-century French afterlives -- Nineteenth-century English afterlives -- Mignon's modern and postmodern survivals -- Mignon's songs : making music out of fiction -- The Mignon corpus : a synoptic view -- Conclusion: A future for Mignon.
Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film.
9780199604807 0199604800
2011283488
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 --Characters--Mignon.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von / 1749-1832 / Characters / Mignon.
Mignon (Fictitious character)
European literature--History and criticism.--19th century
European literature--History and criticism.--20th century
PN761 CAV
Mignon's afterlives : crossing cultures from Goethe to the twenty-first century / Terence Cave. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - xvi, 305 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and indexes.
The Mignon corpus : preliminary considerations -- Mignon in Germany : from Goethe to Stifter -- Nineteenth-century French afterlives -- Nineteenth-century English afterlives -- Mignon's modern and postmodern survivals -- Mignon's songs : making music out of fiction -- The Mignon corpus : a synoptic view -- Conclusion: A future for Mignon.
Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film.
9780199604807 0199604800
2011283488
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 --Characters--Mignon.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von / 1749-1832 / Characters / Mignon.
Mignon (Fictitious character)
European literature--History and criticism.--19th century
European literature--History and criticism.--20th century
PN761 CAV