Oliver Simons. Literary Conclusions: The Poetics of Ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist: Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022. Pp. 230. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8101-4479-8.

Literary Conclusions: The Poetics of Ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist: Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022. Also, in comparison to Simons's unwritten "Goethe book", the Goethe chapter of I Literary Conclusions i , which focuses on I Werther i , I Iphigenie auf Tauris i , and I Die Wahlverwandtschaften i ("Elective Affinities"), contains some obvious omissions. In principle, I Literary Conclusions i ' questions and mode of analysis should be applicable to literature of all periods and genres, [and] Simons for the most part resists historicizing or periodizing, instead handling each author individually. [Extracted from the article]