Mignon's afterlives : crossing cultures from Goethe to the twenty-first century / Terence Cave.
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 a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references (pages [287]-297) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780199604807 0199604800 |