Studies in Goethe's Lyric Cycles

By Meredith Lee

Book Overview

The book presents a series of interpretive readings of the R mische Elegien, Sonette, Chinesisch-deutsche Jarhes- und Tageszeiten, several trilogies, and the shorter cycles of 1821, taking into account the variety of literary devices Goethe employs to link poems together into a cycle. The author examines Goethe's role in the history of the lyric cycle and, in stressing structural design, urges a reevaluation of the cycle's emergence as a standard poetic device.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807880930
• ISBN13: 9780807880937
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"