Mobilities, Literature, Culture by Marian Aguiar & Charlotte Mathieson & Lynne Pearce

Author:Marian Aguiar & Charlotte Mathieson & Lynne Pearce
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030270728
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

With the iterative way of telling of his pastoral life-style, Werther’s rhythm is not only slowed down but also affords a sense of timelessness. Hence, von Petersdorff (2006, 76) argues that these idyllic scenes are not ironic but that they articulate an idealised sense of temporal stabilisation for Werther. This idyllic form arranges slowed-down rhythms with immobile, stabilised place-making practices. Conversely, when Werther goes out to look at familiar settings only several days before his suicide, the narrative rhythm is faster and conforms to his present state:[L]ooking down mournfully on a spot where I once rested under a willow with Lotte, walking on a hot day—that too was flooded and I scarcely even recognized the willow. Oh Wilhelm—and I thought, her meadows and around the hunting lodge and around our bower, I thought how discomposed it will all be now by the river in its spate. (Goethe 2012, 89)

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