Werther's Goethe and the Game of Literary Creativity - 9781487584993

Werther's Goethe and the Game of Literary CreativityAuthor(s): Deirdre Vincent\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487584993, 978-1487584993\nSynopsis\nGoethes Die Leiden des jungen Werther has received a great deal of attention from the scholarly community over the years. But until now it has never been thoroughly explored or evaluated. Deidre Vincent examines the two versions of Werther in the context of Geothes personal life in the intervening years.\n\n Goethe wrote and published the original version of this novel to great acclaim throughout Europe in 1774, drawing on the experience of a traumatic love affair he had had in Wetzlar in 1772. When the revised work was published some thirteen years later, the public saw the second version as little more than a reissuing of the original, and scholars over the past two centuries have persisted in this view. Vincent analyses Goethes mode of writing and th.