SOURCE: “A Tyrant on the Loose in Goethe's Novelle,” in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4, November, 1989, pp. 306-23.
In the following essay, Barry offers what he calls an “ironic reading” of Goethe's Novelle to show that the text is too rich to suggest only one “secret meaning.”
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