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Conversations of German Refugees Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years of the Renunciants - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von//Goethe's Collected Works Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Jane K. Brown Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his experimentation with narrative and perspective. A traditional cycle of novellas, Conversations of German Refug...  more »ees deals with the impact and significance of the French Revolution and suggests Goethe's ideas on the social function of his art. Goethe's last novel, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, is a sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and to Conversations of German Refugees and is considered to be his most remarkable novel in form. Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel's depiction of a sensitive young man caught up in a love impossible to fulfill. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs all the requisites of sentimental romance to give a deeply ironic perspective to the idea of love. As the title indicates, Novella examines the possibilities inherent in this genre. Goethe's scientific work is less familiar to the reading public than his poetry, yet his understanding of natural phenomena displays the same sensitivity and brilliance as his depictions of human relationships. Based on Goethe's research in anatomy, botany, physics, chemistry, zoology, meteorology, and geology, these forty selections call upon scientists to develop their perceptions both inwardly and outwardly in pursuing the continuum of nature through an interconnected and living world.  « less Post This Book Login | Register ISBN-13: 9783518030592 ISBN-10: 3518030590 Pages: 440 Rating: Currently 0/5 Stars.   ? 0 stars, based on 0 rating Publisher: Suhrkamp Publishers Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 0 Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

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