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Three great artists reflecting on the spiritual purpose of art : a study of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Keller's Der Grune Heinrich, and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus /
This work is the only study to focus on these three novels. The argument departs from previous scholarship by emphasizing the ambivalence and even, to some extent, hostility, evinced by each of the authors to aspects of modern social conditions, and by examining their discontents in detail. The stud...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This work is the only study to focus on these three novels. The argument departs from previous scholarship by emphasizing the ambivalence and even, to some extent, hostility, evinced by each of the authors to aspects of modern social conditions, and by examining their discontents in detail. The study also shows a portrayal by the authors of a gradual increase in the tensions they detect in social and artistic conditions during the modern period. |
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| Notas: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 19, 2013). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 301 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773443891 0773443894 |