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Mignon's afterlives

Cave, Terence.

Mignon's afterlives crossing cultures from Goethe to the twenty-first century / [electronic resource] : Terence Cave. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xvi, 305 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song opera, and film.

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 --Characters--Mignon.


Mignon (Fictitious character)
European literature--History and criticism.--19th century
European literature--History and criticism.--20th century

PN761 / .C38 2011

809.894