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'A Great Poet on a Great Brother Poet': A Parallactic Reading of Goethe and James Joyce
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Weninger, Robert |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | AbstractThe essay provides a contrapuntal 'parallactic' reading of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's 'Bildungsroman' Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — with its extensions Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre — and James Joyce's high modernist A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922). Derived from astronomy, the term parallax designates, transferred to literary history, a narrative stratagem, a metapoetical rationale, and an interpretive method. Joyce employs it as a key concept and narrative tool in Ulysses to denote a stereoscopic perspective applied to the protagonists' actions and the world they live in. Leopold Bloom thus reflects on it and the technique of Ulysses is determined by it. On a higher plane, literary critics, too, engage in literary historical parallax whenever they read texts intertextually — as exemplified in this essay. A parallactic reading of the novels' protagonists Wilhelm Meister and Stephen Dedalus, as regards not just their identific... |
| Starting Page | 182 |
| Ending Page | 205 |
| Page Count | 24 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1179/095936810X12790101593191 |
| Volume Number | 79 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/opus4/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/35566/file/Weninger_Great_Poet_2010.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1179/095936810X12790101593191 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
