Bøger af David E. Wellbery

In this account of the symbolic network or organizing myth that underlies Goethe's poetry the author aims to elaborate an interpretation of Goethe's lyric poetry and to demonstrate the significance of that poetry to the development of European Romanticism.

This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics.