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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89000914747
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783989887244
A new 2023 translation into modern American English of Goethe's 1809 "Die Wahlverwandtschaften". Elective Affinities is a sweeping romantic novel that explores the idea of human relationships and attraction, using the concept of chemical affinity as a metaphor. "Elective Affinities" is a Newtonian concept describing the attracting of atoms to form molecules. The novel tells the story of two couples, Eduard and Charlotte, and Ottilie and the Captain, whose lives become intertwined in unexpected ways. Goethe uses the novel to explore the nature of love and desire, and how they can be influenced by social conventions and expectations. The novel was controversial at the time for idea of free will in matters of the heart. This edition contains an Afterword by the Translator, a Timeline of Goethe’s Life & Works and a Glossary of Philosophic Terminology used by Goethe.
Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 0231144806
As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to the modernist aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno and Arthur C. Danto. Aesthetic theory, she argues, depends on a dynamic philosophy of history centered on tendencies, yearnings, needs, and potentialities. With this in mind, she recasts the theses of Adorno and Danto regarding the death or end of philosophy, art, music, and human experience as arguments for continuation and survival. Elective Affinities tracks the migration of aesthetic and critical theory from Germany to the United States following the catastrophic period of the twentieth century marked by the Second World War.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 037193916X
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Author : Peter J. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838757197
After Jena is the first scholarly work in English to set Goethe's influential and controversial novel Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) squarely within the turbulent time in which it was written. Peter J. Schwartz explores the era of rapid modernization following Prussia's defeat at the battle of Jena-Auerstedt (1806)--a battle that permitted Napoleon to extend French hegemony throughout Continental Europe and to dissolve or reform the institutional structures of the German ancien regime. Adducing evidence from many spheres and applying the tools of several disciplines, Schwartz persuasively shows how Elective Affinities reflects post-Jena changes in marriage, property and inheritance law and in the political role of the German nobility. He links questions of character, fate and sacrifice in the novel to modern problems of sovereignty and legitimacy and investigates how key scenes in the novel comment implicitly on Napoleon, Rousseau, the French Revolution, and the politics and aesthetics of the German Romantics. After Jena reveals the novel's ethical core to be a calculus of political legitimacy, and its aesthetics a means of conciliating tensions provoked by modernity's onrush. It will be of special interest to students of literature, history, philosophy, art history and aesthetics. Illustrated. Peter J. Schwartz is Assistant Professor of German at Boston University.
Author : Catriona MacLeod,Véronique Plesch,Charlotte Schoell-Glass
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042026186
This volume presents the impressive range of scholarly affinities, approaches, and subjects that characterize today's word and image studies. The essays were first presented in 2005 at an international conference.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027304103
Elective Affinities, also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809. The title is taken from a scientific term once used to describe the tendency of chemical species to combine with certain substances or species in preference to others. The novel is based on the metaphor of human passions being governed or regulated by the laws of chemical affinity, and examines whether or not the science and laws of chemistry undermine or uphold the institution of marriage, as well as other human social relations. The story is situated around the city of Weimar. Goethe's main characters are Eduard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple both in their second marriage, enjoying an idyllic but semi-dull life on the grounds of their rural estate. They invite the Captain, Eduard's childhood friend, and Ottilie, the beautiful, orphaned, coming-of-age niece of Charlotte, to live with them...
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141909585
Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's passionate young ward Ottilie - provoke unexpected attraction and forbidden love. Taking its title from the principle of elective affinities - the theory that certain chemicals are naturally drawn to one another - this is a penetrating study of marriage and adultery. Inspired by Goethe's own conflicting loyalties as he battled to maintain his relationship with his wife and control his feelings for a younger woman, Elective Affinities is one of the greatest works of the romance era: a rich exploration of love, conflict, and the inescapable force of fate.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547685852
Elective Affinities, also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809. The title is taken from a scientific term once used to describe the tendency of chemical species to combine with certain substances or species in preference to others. The novel is based on the metaphor of human passions being governed or regulated by the laws of chemical affinity, and examines whether or not the science and laws of chemistry undermine or uphold the institution of marriage, as well as other human social relations. The story is situated around the city of Weimar. Goethe's main characters are Eduard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple both in their second marriage, enjoying an idyllic but semi-dull life on the grounds of their rural estate. They invite the Captain, Eduard's childhood friend, and Ottilie, the beautiful, orphaned, coming-of-age niece of Charlotte, to live with them...
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNHGV
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786558942825
The writer J ohann Wolfgang von Goethe was an authentic Renaissance man: excellent in poetry, drama, literature, science, philosophy, painting, and politics, considered by many as the principal author of the German language. " Elective Affinities" is one of his major works. When Goethe chose this title, "Wahlverwandtschaften" was a technical term used only in chemistry. The connotations later acquired - in German and other languages - are largely due to the power of this great novel, elegantly rigorous, and which is, in fact, a reflection on the complications of human relationships, demonstrating how our experience of other people makes our experience of love and desire fluid and uncertain. It's no wonder that "Elective Affinities" is part of the famous collection: "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die."
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00823756D
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0691043469
Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel's depiction of a sensitive young man caught up in a love impossible to fulfill. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs all the requisites of sentimental romance to give a deeply ironic perspective to the idea of love. As the title indicates, Novella examines the possibilities inherent in this genre.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Artists
ISBN : UCLA:L0061794053
Author : Joseph Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Rationalism
ISBN : OXFORD:600086532