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Rescue narratives: Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften and Benjamin’s ‘Das Taschentuch’
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Walter Benjamin’s little-explored 1932 novella ‘Das Taschentuch’ combines theory and narrative practice. Its reflections on storytelling anticipate the argument of the ‘Erzähler’ essay, while its rescue narrative echoes Benjamin’s essay on ‘Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften’. In ‘Das Taschentuch’ Benjamin adapts Goethe’s novella ‘Die wunderlichen Nachbarskinder’ for his own, technological age, considerably increasing the drama of the original. Like his ‘Goethe’ essay, however, Benjamin’s novella i...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1080/09593683.2020.1723323
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- Routledge Publisher's website
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- Publications of the English Goethe Society Journal website
- Volume:
- 89
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 94-110
- Publication date:
- 2020-03-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-29
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1749-6284
- ISSN:
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0959-3683
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- English
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- 2019-12-04
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- English Goethe Society
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 The English Goethe Society.
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Routledge at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2020.1723323
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