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Three Great Artists Reflecting on the Spiritual Purpose of Art: A Study of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Keller's Der Grune Heinrich, and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
Author(s): Martin Potter (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 316 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773438548
- ISBN-13: 9780773438545
Book Description
This study expores the theme of the artist’s interaction with modern society as represented in three novels by German-language authors, all novels are very prominent works in the German tradition and all foreground the life of protagonist working in arts, and all bring the protagonist’s artistic activity into contact and conflict with modern social conditions.
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This study expores the theme of the artist’s interaction with modern society as represented in three novels by German-language authors, all novels are very prominent works in the German tradition and all foreground the life of protagonist working in arts, and all bring the protagonist’s artistic activity into contact and conflict with modern social conditions.
About the Author
Dr. Potter studies linguistics and literature at King’s College Cambridge and the University of Southern California, completeing his Ph.D. in German Literature at University College London in 2003. He teaches at the University of Bucharest
