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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Johann Wolfgang von"”.
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The will to act : an analysis of Max Weber's sociology in the light of Goethe's fiction
… vocation essays are interpreted in the light of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Elective Affinities, Wilhelm Meister , and Faust . Drawing on themes which frame the latter's novels, the importance of experience, renunciation, and a specialized vocation which underlie the 'will to act' will be …
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Towards a declamatory performance in Schubert Lieder
… in light of emerging historical evidence. Johann Michael Vogl’s reputedly declamatory approach has arguably been captured in surviving Diabelli editions that document his rhetorically motivated alterations and ornamentations. Similarly, Gustav Anton von Seckendorff has detailed song-like …
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Como vender a alma ao diabo em 4 lições ou o diabo como tentador da humanidade
… intitulada, “O Físico Prodigioso” e outra de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Fausto”, cujas temáticas estão ligadas à venda da alma.
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Homunculi of the Digital City
… further by employing the Homunculus from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust II (1950, originally published in 1832). I utilise Matthew Gandy, Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie's discussions around the broader city so to consider the material and immaterial elements that constitute it. The …
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A Study of Mignon's Lied in Selected Settings
… given by composers to a twelve line poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The text is the common factor over which the differences of approach and treatment are laid by composers in compositions which range in time of initial publication from 1796 to 1888. The condition of the Lied immediately …
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Goethe's Urfaust and the Enlightenment: Gottsched, Welling, and the "Turn to Magic"
… in the early 1770s, is the first draft of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (1749-1832) masterpiece, Faust, Teil I (1808). While this early draft is relatively unexamined in its own right, an examination of this work in the context of its original creation offers insights into Goethe's creative …
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Mira Muchacha: The Latinx Bildungsroman in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
… as the first work in the Bildungsroman genre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1796) tracks the development and education of the protagonist from boyhood to manhood. In 20th and 21st century literature, the Bildungsroman structure expands to reflect the diverse …
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Hebraism and Hellenism as seen in Sartor resartus and Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship
… comparison and contest.</p><p>Those Carlyle and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the authors under consideration here, have often been the subjects for this method of literary criticism. Much of this work has been done with the emphasis on influences, Indeed the influence of Goethe on Carlyle is now …
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Sociological Tragedy: Simmel and Weber on Selfhood and Action
… cultural and philosophical writers, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Nietzsche. The dissertation then uses these neglected overlaps and parallels to put forward a reading of Simmel more sensitive to traditionally “Weberian” themes, such as life-conduct in accordance with …
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The Enlightening Supernatural: Ghost Stories in the Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
… Karl Philipp Moritz, Friedrich Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In various ways, these texts demonstrate how the presentation of a ghost creates new possibilities in philosophy and aesthetics, as well as opportunities for critique. For some, the ghostly encounter produces an …
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman
… examined alongside a sonnet-cycle inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel <em>The Sorrows of Young Werther</em>. Finally, the edition features an appendix comprised of critical reviews, letters, and selections of poetry and prose from William Collins, Charlotte Smith, Joanna Baillie, …
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A Transcendent View of Things: The Persistence of Metaphysics in Modern German Lyric Poetry, 1771-1908
My dissertation explores the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Eduard Mörike, and Rainer Maria Rilke, and it contends that these modern poets retain, albeit uneasily, a view of things as symbols of the transcendent divine. It thus disputes the secularization theory of post- Enlightenment …
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Bildung, the Beautiful Soul, and the German Enlightenment Salon
… celebrated philosophers of the Beautiful Soul, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), and how their ideas informed the activities of the two most widely recognized salons in post-revolutionary Berlin, those of Henriette Herz (1764-1847) and Rahel Varnhagen …
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Forging the Ideological Atlantic: West German-American Fête Diplomacy, 1945-1953
… the bicentennial of the birth of German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1949), the 900th anniversary of the city of Nuremberg (1950), cultural festivals in Berlin (1951) and Passau (1952), and the centennial of the year that Carl Schurz arrived in the United States (1952). In each of these …
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Expansion and contraction: Goethean polarity and architecture
As a historic figure, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) has been drawing interest in contemporary research in humanities due to his involvement in multiple fields such as literature, philosophy, natural sciences and aesthetics while having direct influence on the shaping of the Enlightenment …
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Goethe and the genteel tradition in America
… studies of the poet in the postCivil War period, von Grueningen deals with the attitude toward him as reflected in periodicals , and Pochmann's contribution, while encyclopedic in scope, does not attempt critical evaluation. The present investigation undertakes to explore the reaction toward …
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Effect of price-level changes on depreciation principles and practices
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Western Historical Gardens and Chinese Influences--From Great Britain to Picturesque Royal garden in Piedmont
… garden, including Claude-Henri Watelet and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Ermenonville of the Marquis de Girardin was poetic nature had benefited from Rousseau’s novel. As the Monceau (1773), le Petit Trianon (1774-1787), Betz (1780-1789), La Folie Saint-James de Neuilly (1784) and the Désert …