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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s genius extended beyond the short story to embrace all the major genres: the novel, drama, and lyric poetry, as well as nonfiction. Much of his work is autobiographical yet goes well beyond the personal in its focus on the individual’s place in society and the struggle of the artist to express his humanity in the face of opposing forces, both external and internal. His novels Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795-1796; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, 1825), Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809; Elective...
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Faust (Masterplots Classics) -
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Faust (Magill Book Reviews) -
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Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Masterplots Classics) -
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Character Profiles) -
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Literary Places) -
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Magill Book Reviews) -
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Masterplots Classics) -
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Character Profiles) -
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Literary Places) -
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Acting Styles (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Dramatic Genres (Topical Overview--Drama) -
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Staging and Production (Topical Overview--Drama) -
Bildungsroman, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Epistolary Novel, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
German Long Fiction to the Mid- Nineteenth Century (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Novella, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890 (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Psychological Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
German Poetry to 1800 (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Eighteenth Century, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction) -
Fable Tradition, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction) -
Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
