JOURNAL ARTICLE

A Durkheimian Reading of Suicide in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Foscolo's The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis.

  • Published In: Partial Answers, 2023, v. 21, n. 2. P. 215 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Castelli, Alberto 3 of 3

Abstract

Emile Durkheim was the first scholar to treat suicide as a sociological phenomenon, collective rather than private, thus illustrating the failure of modern individualism. This paper demonstrates that the tragic endings of Goethe's Werther and Foscolo's Jacopo Ortis anticipate Durkheim's suicide classification: Goethe and Foscolo created heroes whose tragic action accords with the basic elements belonging to Durkheim's typologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Partial Answers. 2023/06, Vol. 21, Issue 2, p215
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:15653668
  • DOI:10.1353/pan.2023.a899741
  • Accession Number:164692719
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