The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1797), in which a wizard’s apprentice supplants the master during his absence and thus causes a flood, is mainly about limit-exceeding. It’s noticeable that the flood occurs in the enclosed space of the wizard’s workshop, and the master is able to restore the former order right upon his return. The text can also be read as a cautionary tale of what limits essentially mean and why it is that important to adhere to them. Chaos and order are conditioned reciprocally in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. In some way, the protagonist’s exceeding of his limits happens within the frame of certain discourses. The aim of this study is to make the discursive structure of the text visible. Which discourses emerge? How do they work together? What are their functions? What dynamics do they develop? Questions like these are to be examined in this study.
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 15 Mart 2021 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2021 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 17 |