SOURCE: “Tensions in Goethe's Novelle,” in Goethe's Narrative Fiction: The Irvine Goethe Symposium, edited by William J. Lillyman, Walter de Gruyter, 1983, pp. 176-92.
In the following excerpt from his full-length treatment of Goethe's fiction, Lehnert explores the inner tensions in Goethe's Novelle, which he maintains adds to the complexity and greatness of Goethe's message that literature can act as a stabilizing social force.
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