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Author Cave, Terence.

Title Mignon's afterlives : crossing cultures from Goethe to the twenty-first century / Terence Cave
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Contents The Mignon corpus : preliminary considerations -- Mignon in Germany : from Goethe to Stifter -- Nineteenth-century French afterlives -- Nineteenth-century English afterlives -- Mignon's modern and postmodern survivals -- Mignon's songs : making music out of fiction -- The Mignon corpus : a synoptic view -- Conclusion: A future for Mignon
Summary Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Characters -- Mignon
SUBJECT Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 fast
Subject Mignon (Fictitious character)
European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
European literature
Mignon (Fictitious character)
Languages & Literatures.
Germanic Literature.
Literature - General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191731624
0191731625