Journal article
Wilhelm Müller’s Leiermann, Elfriede Jelinek’s Leierfrau, and radical repetition
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Wilhelm Müller’s 1824 cycle Die Winterreise, and particularly its final poem ‘Der Leiermann’, are often read as nihilistic expressions of a Romantic death wish. The wanderer moves into a state of eternal alienation, symbolized by the icy landscape where he will forever rehearse his songs of loneliness and despair to the much-maligned music of the outcast hurdy-gurdy man, who has in turn been read as a harbinger of death. This article argues that such readings overlook the radically critical m...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Routledge Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Publications of the English Goethe Society Journal website
- Volume:
- 88
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 21-38
- Publication date:
- 2019-04-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-01-03
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1749-6284
- ISSN:
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0959-3683
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-01-28
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- English Goethe Society
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © 2019 The English Goethe Society.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available form Taylor and Francis at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2019.1572971
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