Tracing Subversive Currents in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

by John Blair

Fresh critical reading of Goethe's important novel, challenging orthodox scholarship.

In this new reading of Goethe's most influential novel Blair's close attention to the text brings startling insights to light, often taking issue with received critical opinions. He shows, for example, that Goethe slyly introducedmaterial full of low-cultural, subversive vitality that mocks conservative, authoritarian power interested in conformity or propriety...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571130926
• ISBN13: 9781571130921
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 8.8"