SOURCE: “The Tyranny of the Ideal: The Dialectics of Art in Goethe's Novelle,” in Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer, 1980, pp. 217-31.
In the following essay, Brown concludes that Goethe used Novelle to transform neo-classical literary structure into a Romantic form, and she uses Goethe's concept of the ideal to show that it is Honorio and the princess, not the lion, who are tamed at the story's conclusion.
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