Abstract This article argues that Goethe reduced the rich myth of Proserpina to a sequence of pure repetitions, which in their various forms then dominate the entire text of the drama. Goethe reproduces the myth as a rhetorical skeleton or, rather, as the skeleton of rhetoric. Put differently, Goethe’s Proserpina, executing a meta-theatrical experiment with the rich linguistic possibilities repetition provides, is a monodrama whose actual heroine is repetition.

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咀嚼：歌德的Proserpina

摘要本文认为，歌德将Proserpina的丰富神话还原为一系列纯净的重复，这些重复以其各种形式统治着整个戏剧文本。歌德将神话再现为修辞骨架，或更确切地说，作为修辞骨架。换句话说，歌德的《 Proserpina》是一部单戏剧，其真正的女主角是重复，它通过重复提供的丰富语言可能性进行了元戏剧实验。