Mignon's Afterlives by Terence Cave
Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film.
delightfully informative, leisurely, and sophisticated.. the scope of the investigation is impressively broad * David Baguley, French Studies *
Terence Cave is Emeritus Professor of French Literature in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and of Queen Mary, University of London, and he holds an Honorary D.Litt. at the University of London (Royal Holloway). He is known for his studies The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (Clarendon Press, 1979) and Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (Oxford University Press, 1988), but has written widely on early modern French literature and on the history of poetics. In 2009 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Literature since 1500, and he is currently director of the Balzan interdisciplinary project Literature as an Object of Knowledge based at the St John's College Research Centre in Oxford. In the context of that project, he is exploring the value of cognitive approaches to literary study.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199604807 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199604800 |
| Title | Mignon's Afterlives |
| Author | Terence Cave |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2011-09-22 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Prizes | Winner of Shortlisted for the 2012 R.H. Gapper Book Prize. |
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