...Jill Anne Kowalik Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 FEMININE IDENTITY FORMATION IN WILHELM MEISTERS LEHRJAHRE By JILL ANNE KOWALIK Natalie, the “beautiful soul,” and Therese have...

...Ian Duncan Abstract Trained on the history of the novel in English, Nancy Armstrong’s Desire and Domestic Fiction also illuminates continental European developments. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship , the prototype of the nineteenth-century “novel of development” (bildungsroman), forms itself...

...: he believed that Grimm was in complete charge of the Cowespondunce Zitth-uire until 1790, and apparently he was unaware of the part played by Meister as redactor of the Correspondance after 1773. Of some significance, too, is the fact that in the Gazette Zitt&aire de Grimm, histoire...

... and acknowledges her husband’s mastery ‘kh h$n daz wol erfunden, daz du kanst vrouwen meister sin’” (678, 4). Brunhild’s general formulation here, vrouwen meister, agrees nicely with the general significance accorded the struggle by Siegfried in 673. It also echoes earlier lines which...

... character by Wilhelm Meister and his fellow actors became widely influential. Less known are the close bearing that Goethe’s novel had on another autobiographical text, Scott’s Redgauntlet, and the ways in which that novel also draws on Hamlet.’ Goethe’s long bildungsroman, composed...

... Text “Justi vivent in aeternum”, Weisheit Salomonis Cap. 5 Vers 16, folgende Worte : “Meister Eckehart. Goettelich wesen ist min wesen vnd min wesen ist goetlich wesen. Das kunden die stvden- ten nut verston.” Was spater in dem Prozel3 von 1326 offen in Fur und Wider durchgefochten...

.... Er endet mit dem Tod des Meisters und dem Ver- sprechen, daB er, Nathanael, sich um Haus und Geschaft und urn Lotte, die Meisterstochter, kiimmern werde. Der dritte Teil berichtet dann iiber den Meister Nathanael, seine Leistungen in der Gemeinde, sein Leben als Gattc und...

... Meisters Wanderjahre, a review which in Fambach’s full-sized and closely printed book runs over fifty pages! Thus Fambach’s collection is an important document in the history of literary criticism between 1780 and 1830, quite apart from the fact that it offers valuable insights...

...George C. Buck Pp. 69. E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Kampf der Sanger. Pp. 63. A Holz and J. Schalaf, Die Familie Selicke. Pp. 80. Adalbert Stifter, Kalkstein. Pp. 77. E. T. A. Hoffmann, Meister Martin Der Kufner und Seine Gesellen. Pp. x + 74. Cambridge Univeristy Press. Copyright © 1952 by Duke...

... the formidable nature of the task. After all, the thematic and formal diversity of the mate- rial under consideration is compelling. Werther was written in the episto- lary mode and ends tragically, while Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1796), a more expansive and objectively narrated...

... attention to both the meaning and the materiality of the earth in and for literature yields an impressive new reading of Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years (1829) in conjunction with the poet-scientist’s late geological studies. In these works poetics and science converge on the concept...

... pos- sibly too many parallels between the story of Manon and Goethe’s own personal “Gretchen tragedy.” Like Richard Mess16ny,8 Friedrich also makes Manon a literary ancestress of Philine in Wilhelm Meister, while Reinhold Frick considers the Marianne of the same novel a related type...

... similarities must be measured against the formidable nature of the task. After all, the thematic and formal diversity of the mate- rial under consideration is compelling. Werther was written in the episto- lary mode and ends tragically, while Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1796), a more...

... such as Wilhelm Meister, Nachsommer, and Zuuberberg we associate as the foremost feature either a certain curve of events or the picture we have of the main character, episodes of his life with its ups and downs, his environment, and his friends. Especially with that type of epic work usually called...

... diagnoses by Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Hamlet was “a fine, pure, noble and highly moral person, but devoid of that emotional strength that characterizes a hero.”6 The Prince of Denmark was a hypersensitive creature, a schöne Seele, an intellectual characterized...

... fulfilled the second requirement. Mignon’s Lied Aus: Wilhelm Meister, von Goethe Mignon’s Lay Knowst thou that land? where lemons bloom so fair, The golden oranges from dark-green branches glare, From...

...). CURTISC. D. VarL University of Washington J. M. R. Lenz. Die Soldaten. Pp. 69. E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Kampf der Sunger. Pp. 63. A. Holz and J. Schlaf, Die Familie Selicke. Pp. 80. Adalbert Stifter, Kolkstein. Pp. 77. E. T. A. HofXmann, Meister Martin Der Kiijner md Seine Gesellen...

... fifteenth century). Goethe presented himself as a national ( Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre ), a European ( Faust II ), and a global writer (the concept of world literature) while always expressing his basic belief in a healthy federal relationship between smaller political units (like cities and provinces...

... made the proper dif- ferentiation. Finally, there is the vexed question of German and English, italic and roman type, for all the innumerable occurrences of Meister and its various compounds. Obviously striving for consistency, Bell writes Meisterlied, Meistersingerschulen, Meisterton...

...: Nu wil iu der tihare Von kunec ArtQs ein mzre Sagen ze bezzerunge, Daz er in tiutsche zunge Von franzoise hiit geri h te t. (2I 7-21 ) More damning are his two references to ChrCtien as his “Meister” (16941...