Transforming Classicism into Romanticism and Beyond in Goethe’s “The Roman Carnival”.
This essay situates “The Roman Carnival,” a short narrative in Goethe’s fictional travelogue, Italian Journey, within the debate about Goethe’s relationship to classicism. I argue that this narrative evokes the structure of a Greek tragedy, but reverses retardation and catastrophe, thus creating an...
| Publicado en: | Neophilologus Vol. 94; no. 1; pp. 127 - 138 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Jan2010
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