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    Leitfaden zur ersten Aufführung des zweiten Theiles von Goethe's Faust in der Bühneneinrichtung von Julius Werther

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    LEITFADEN ZUR ERSTEN AUFFÜHRUNG DES ZWEITEN THEILES VON GOETHE'S FAUST IN DER BÜHNENEINRICHTUNG VON JULIUS WERTHER Leitfaden zur ersten Aufführung des zweiten Theiles von Goethe's Faust in der Bühneneinrichtung von Julius Werther (1) Cover (1) Titelseite (2) Anmerkung (5) Der zweite Act (8) Der dritte Act (Helena) (11) Der vierte Act (13) Der fünfte Act (15

    "Intertextuality in Goethe's ""Werther"""

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    This dissertation examines the intertextual references in eighteenth-century German author Johann W. Goethe’s epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther. The project consists of five chapters with a theory of intertextuality based on M.M. Bakhtin's ideas, which are presented primarily in the introduction. Chapter One addresses references to Klopstock, Chapter Two Lessing’s Emilia Galotti, Chapter Three Homer, Chapter Four Ossian, and Chapter Five eighteenth-century knowledge. This study examines intertextual references to authors, scholars, literature, and literary characters from other novels clearly identifiable in Werther. Werther’s explicit references to other literary texts elicit various intertextual dialogues. Werther creates a dialogic network of literary relations through its references to these texts, and they, in turn, elevate Goethe's novel to a similar canonic status. My findings contribute to a different interpretation of Werther, one that comprehensively explains how both the well-known and lesser-discussed intertextual references in the novel function. I argue that the young Goethe operated within the cultural understanding that the inclusion of other prominent European texts could help to situate Werther in developing the national German literary canon. Though Holquist states that a canonic state does not allow dissenting voices and that the novel as a “...heteroglot genre – has no canon...,” the tension caused by the intertextual references in Werther cannot be ignored (Imagination 25). Goethe's avoidance of Werther in his later years speaks to his contradictory ambitions. While he wanted to be the measure of success, he could not quiet the cultural context of originality in which he lived. Werther marks this general period of literary history when young writers expressed their expansive visions of greatness. Werther builds on the literary texts produced by German Enlightenment writers such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, and was influenced by authors beyond the borders of German-speaking lands, from the Anglo-Saxon tradition of Ossian to the Greek Antiquity of Homer, making Werther the first of many contributions to a Weltliteratur that Goethe discussed later in his career. Goethe’s intertextual references to authors and texts in Werther required a different understanding from audiences in the late eighteenth century than they do for readers over 200 years later. His references clarify general eighteenth-century interpretations of such writers as Ossian and Homer. Informed by Bakhtinian theoretical concepts, this study explains the significance the references had then and what they mean for readers today. For the study of intertextuality my dissertation provides an example of how Bakhtin's ideas alone can be used to guide an intertextual study of literature. It furthermore means that an intertextual framework can lead to conclusions concerning canon development.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2011-04-20T18:52:16Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 DeGuire_Mary.pdf: 1075678 bytes, checksum: b839d583b443439bb229e080cbccf458 (MD5) DeGuire_Mary.pdf: 1075680 bytes, checksum: 7a598ee62d4332fe92286fdb5458dbb7 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-25T14:27:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 DeGuire_Mary.pdf: 1042487 bytes, checksum: b8d0c39e408de176ee6c9caf252fbbbb (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: d08d9c9e90e1665d18dea6d8c758d4f5 (MD5)Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by William Ingram ([email protected]) on 2011-05-25T14:30:07Z Item is restricted until 2013-05-25T14:29:35ZItem reinstated by Sarah Shreeves ([email protected]) on 2013-05-26T10:00:20Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - Germanic Languages and Literatures (ID: 739) No. of bitstreams: 3 DeGuire_Mary.pdf.txt: 676634 bytes, checksum: a58ddf62c312b352784375fdd2bdd97e (MD5) DeGuire_Mary.pdf: 1042487 bytes, checksum: b8d0c39e408de176ee6c9caf252fbbbb (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: d08d9c9e90e1665d18dea6d8c758d4f5 (MD5)Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves ([email protected]) on 2013-05-26T10:00:20

    Bemühte Sterbliche Bezahlet hier eure thränende Schuldigkeit/ wo uns des Toden Register der letzten Schuld erinnert und beklaget das jammernde Seuffzen vieler Seelen ... Wenn ich den Namen sage/ so ists Bericht genug: den ... Friedrich von Werther ...

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    BEMÜHTE STERBLICHE BEZAHLET HIER EURE THRÄNENDE SCHULDIGKEIT/ WO UNS DES TODEN REGISTER DER LETZTEN SCHULD ERINNERT UND BEKLAGET DAS JAMMERNDE SEUFFZEN VIELER SEELEN ... WENN ICH DEN NAMEN SAGE/ SO ISTS BERICHT GENUG: DEN ... FRIEDRICH VON WERTHER ... Bemühte Sterbliche Bezahlet hier eure thränende Schuldigkeit/ wo uns des Toden Register der letzten Schuld erinnert und beklaget das jammernde Seuffzen vieler Seelen ... Wenn ich den Namen sage/ so ists Bericht genug: den ... Friedrich von Werther ... ([1]) Text ([1]

    The Werther effect and you

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    Suicide, the Werther effect and contemporary mass media are discussed with regard to Aristotlean catharsis, Bandurian modelling and euthanasia

    Werther

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    WERTHER Werther [...] (Parte I.) ([1]) [...] (Parte II.) ([1]

    “Only those who love know pain”: Werther's inner conflict.

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    reservedLa seguente tesi vuole analizzare il conflitto interiore di Werther, protagonista del romanzo di Goethe“I dolori del giovane Werther” , ponendo luce sul rapporto tra amore e autodistruzione. Dopo aver inserito l’opera nel contesto culturale dello Sturm und Drang e nella biografia dell’autore, ci si concentrerà sulla struttura epistolare e il linguaggio emotivo, caratteristiche principali che esprimono la crisi del protagonista. L’amore è percepito come ambivalente: da una parte espressione dell’individualità e dall’altra causa di autodistruzione. La tesina pone infine una riflessione sull’impatto culturale del romanzo, andando a illustrare quella che è conosciuta come “febbre di Werther”.This thesis aims to analyze the inner conflict of Werther, the protagonist of Goethe's novel "The sorrows of young Werther", shedding light on the relationship between love and self-destruction. After placing the work in the cultural context of Sturm und Drang and the author's biography, we will focus on the epistolary structure and emotional language, the main characteristics that express the protagonist's crisis. Love is perceived as ambivalent: on the one hand an expression of individuality and, on the other, a cause of self-destruction. Finally, the thesis reflects on the cultural impact of the novel, illustrating what is known as "Werther fever"

    Ossian by Werther; or, the 'respect for this author'

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    Despite Goethe’s unfavourable affirmations concerning Ossian in his old age, he had set the fashion for Macpherson’s publications with The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). Even after the German ‘Ossianomanie’ had subsided, the Bard’s intoxicating influence on Werther kept arousing the interest of an international readership in other countries. This contribution will shed more light on Werther translations that partly omitted or expurgated the inserted Ossianic passages, thus ignoring their function as a factor of composition, obscuring the alterations in the protagonist’s character and distorting Goethe’s intended build-up of the sensual climax.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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