TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - A Durkheimian reading of suicide in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Foscolo's The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
JO  - Partial answers
A1  - Castelli, A.
SP  - 215
EP  - 240
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
N2  - <p>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.</p>  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1565-3668
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pan.2023.a899741
ID  - ref1
ER  -