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...

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Published in:	Neophilologus Vol. 94; no. 1; pp. 127 - 138
Main Author:	Broszeit-Rieger, Ingrid
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Springer Nature Jan2010
Subjects:	Criticism Italian Journey (Book) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 Classicism in literature Romanticism in literature Signification (Logic) in literature
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