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  title info:
    title: Lives and deaths of Werther
    sub title: interpretation, translation, and adaptation in Europe and East Asia
  name:
    name part: Kaminski, Johannes Daniel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 251 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Today, Goethe's Sorrows of young Werther can no longer hope to find enthusiastic audences as it did on its first publication. In our age of casual dating, the reading public is bound to find Werther's laments boring and the book's tragic conclusion preposterous. And yet the book has produced a global echo that rivals today's bestsellers. While in the German context, the book was always outshined by its famous author, patriotic writers in Italy and China saw their lives mirrored in Werther's struggle, inspiring them to rewrite Goethe's novel in revolutionary terms. Meanwhile, French Romantics embraced Werther's expressive language to explore the dark corners of their souls. The same happened in Japan, where modernists invoked the text to show that 'the most beautiful moment of life--that is, love--blossoms in the proximity of death.' Evidently, Werther is different Werthers. But not everywhere at the same time! This study investigates how interpretations, translations and literay adaptations of Goethe's novel have manipulated the text in ways that have left deep marks on world literature."--
  table of contents: Joys and sorrows of interpretation -- The translator, translated -- Revolutionary afterlives -- Thanatological revenants.
  note: Johannes Kaminski.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
      name part: 1749-1832
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
      name part: 1749-1832
    topic: Influence
  classification: PT1980.Z9 K36 2023
  classification: 833/.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: British Academy monograph
  identifier: 9780197267554
  identifier: 0197267556
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230906
    record change date: 20240626144730.2
    record identifier: in00005661514
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng