SOURCE: “How Seriously Should We take Goethe's Definition of the Novelle?,” in Goethe Yearbook: Publications of the Goethe Society of North America, Vol. 3, 1986, pp. 121-23.
In the following essay, Ellis contends that Goethe's Novelle should not be considered the standard-bearer for the genre in general.
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