Lessing Goethe Kleist And The Transformation Of Gender

Author : Eleanor E. Ter Horst
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015056303566

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Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, and the Transformation of Gender by Eleanor E. Ter Horst Pdf

The presence of such gender-ambiguous figures as hermaphrodites and Amazons in works by Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist continues to challenge perceptions of the Enlightenment and Classical periods of German literature. This book explores the conflicting definitions of masculinity and femininity in works by these authors from the perspective of current research in feminist and gender studies, and links varying representations of gender to aesthetic issues, such as the texts' relationship to the literature of antiquity and distinctions between drama and narrative. Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, and the Transformation of Gender also explores the literature's connections to extra-literary (medical and economic) discourses, while establishing that issues of gender are central to the aesthetic and practice of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist.

Author : Eleanor E. ter Horst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015038560499

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From Hermaphrodite to Amazon by Eleanor E. ter Horst Pdf

Author : John B. Lyon,Laura Deiulio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351020

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Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture by John B. Lyon,Laura Deiulio Pdf

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture challenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, were an important mode of literary production during this era. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations and proves that male and female spheres of creation were not as distinct as has been previously thought. It demonstrates that the model of the male genius that dominated literary studies for centuries was not inevitable, that viable alternatives to it existed. Finally, it demands that we rethink definitions of an author and a literary work in ways that account for the complex modes of creation from which they arose.

Author : Julie Koser
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810132337

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Armed Ambiguity by Julie Koser Pdf

Armed Ambiguity interrogates tropes of the woman warrior constructed by print culture—including press reports, novels, dramatic works, and lyrical texts—during the decades-long conflict in Europe around 1800. Julie Koser sheds new light on how women’s bodies became a semiotic battleground for competing social, cultural, and political agendas in one of the most critical periods of modern history. Reading the women warriors in this book as barometers of the social and political climate in German-speaking territories, Koser reveals how literary texts and cultural artifacts foregrounding women’s armed insurrection perpetuated or contested the discursive construction and illusionary dichotomization of "public" versus "private" spheres along a gendered fault line. Koser illuminates how reactionary visions of "ideal femininity" competed with subversive fantasies of new femininities in the ideological battle being waged over the restructuring of German society.

Author : Peter Josephson,Thomas Karlsohn,Johan Östling
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004271944

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The Humboldtian Tradition by Peter Josephson,Thomas Karlsohn,Johan Östling Pdf

In The Humboldtian Tradition, eleven scholars consider Wilhelm von Humboldt as a historical phenomenon and a contemporary symbol. Inspired by the growing body of literature that in recent years has problematized the modern research university, they put Humboldt’s basic academic principles into context and discuss their significance for the current debate about higher education. The authors draw on the latest research in order to bring the educational and research policies of our day into perspective. At a time when the university is undergoing deep-seated transformations worldwide, they address the question how we should relate to the ideas associated with Humboldt’s name. What is his relevance to the twenty-first century? Contributors are: Mitchell Ash, Pieter Dhondt, Ylva Hasselberg, Marja Jalava, Peter Josephson, Thomas Karlsohn, Claudia Lindén, Johan Östling, Sharon Rider, Hans Ruin, Susan Wright.

Author : Susan E. Gustafson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501315787

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Goethe's Families of the Heart by Susan E. Gustafson Pdf

Throughout his literary work Goethe portrays characters who defy and reject 18th and 19th century ideals of aristocratic and civil families, notions of heritage, assumptions about biological connections, expectations about heterosexuality, and legal mandates concerning marriage. The questions Goethe's plays and novels pose are often modern and challenging: Do social conventions, family expectations, and legal mandates matter? Can two men or two women pair together and be parents? How many partners or parents should there be? Two? One? A group? Can parents love children not biologically related to them? Do biological parents always love their children? What is the nature of adoptive parents, children, and families? Ultimately, what is the fundamental essence of love and family? Gustafson demonstrates that Goethe's conception of the elective affinities is certainly not limited to heterosexual spouses or occasionally to men desiring men. A close analysis of Goethe's explication of affinities throughout his literary production reveals his rejection of loveless relationships (for example, arranged marriages) and his acceptance and promotion of all relationships formed through spontaneous affinities and love (including heterosexual, same-sex, nonexclusive, group, parental, and adoptive).

Author : Charlotte Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009041645

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Goethe in Context by Charlotte Lee Pdf

One of the most prolific and versatile writers of all time, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) made an impact that continues to extend far beyond his native Germany. The variety of human questions and experiences treated in his works is arguably without parallel. He also had (for his era) an unusually long life, which spanned the French Revolution, the end of the Holy Roman Empire and subsequent reshaping of the German-speaking world, and the rapid onset of industrial modernity. In thirty-seven short essays, leading international scholars explore Goethe's life and times, his literary works, his activity in the realms of art, philosophy and natural science, his reception of – and indeed by – other cultures, and, finally, the resonance of his work in our time. The aim of this collection is to open as many windows as possible onto Goethe's wide-ranging intellectual and practical activity, and to give a sense of his ongoing importance.

Author : Heidi Schlipphacke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684484553

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The Aesthetics of Kinship by Heidi Schlipphacke Pdf

The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of “family plots” in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents an alternative view of the eighteenth-century literary social world and its concomitant ideologies. Whereas Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophy and political theory posit the nuclear family as a microcosm for the ideal modern nation-state, literature of the period offers a far more heterogeneous image of kinship structures, one that includes members of various classes and is not defined by blood. Through a radical re-reading of the multifarious kinship structures represented in literature of the long eighteenth century, The Aesthetics of Kinship questions the inevitability of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and invokes alternative futures for conceptions of social and political life.

Author : Simon J. Richter,Simon Richter,Martha B. Helfer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133100

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Goethe Yearbook 13 by Simon J. Richter,Simon Richter,Martha B. Helfer Pdf

Essays on the Wilhelm Meister novels, Faust, Goethe's early plays, Schiller's Räuber and on Goethe's thought in relation to current debates on cosmopolitanism and postcoloniality. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. This year's volume features a cluster of exceptional essays thatshed new light on Goethe's Wilhelm Meister novels and Faust, as well as fascinating articles on the early play Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilen and the poem "Ilmenau," Schiller's Die Räuber, and anessay that places Goethe's thought in relation to current debates about cosmopolitanism and postcoloniality. Engaging reviews of recent publications in Goethe studies round out the volume. Contributors include Eric Denton, Matt Erlin, Jaimey Fisher, Ingrid Rieger, Rainer Kawa, David Barry, Stephanie Dawson, and John Pizer. Simon J. Richter is Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania. Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German at Rutgers University.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015062125557

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Goethe Yearbook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cynthia Eller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520948556

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Gentlemen and Amazons by Cynthia Eller Pdf

Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.

Author : Michael Trevor Coughlin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004398962

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From Mythos to Logos by Michael Trevor Coughlin Pdf

From Mythos to Logos: Andrea Palladio, Freemasonry and the Triumph of Minerva explores how myth was used to encode architecture and frescoed interiors with insights that promote peace, freedom and kindness as ways of being in the world. The author, Michael Trevor Coughlin argues that Freemasonry took root in the Italian city of Vicenza as early as 1546, and that its precepts, conveyed through the intersection of myth and philosophy, were disseminated widely in buildings and images, as well as texts, prescribing tolerance and an understanding of the divine that exists in each and everyone.

Author : Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres,Marjorie Gelus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803248121

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Women in German Yearbook 2003 by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres,Marjorie Gelus Pdf

Women in German Yearbook is a refereed publication that presents a wide range of feminist approaches to all aspects of German literary, cultural, and language studies, including pedagogy. Each issue contains critical studies on the work, history, life, literature, and arts of women in the German-speaking world, reflecting the interdisciplinary perspectives that inform feminist German studies.

Author : Julie Mae Koser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3511387

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Representations of Armed Women in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-century German Literature by Julie Mae Koser Pdf

Author : Carl Niekerk,Gabriela Stoicea
Publisher : Wallstein Verlag
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783835349360

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Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch XLIX, 2022 by Carl Niekerk,Gabriela Stoicea Pdf

Das Lessing Yearbook, offizielles Organ der Lessing Society mit Sitz in Cincinnati, Ohio, ist ein weltweit anerkanntes, wichtiges Forum für alle Wissenschaftler, die sich – in englischer und deutscher Sprache – mit Literatur, Kultur und Gedankengut Deutschlands im 18. Jahrhundert beschäftigen. Guy Stern zum 100. Geburtstag. Mit Beiträgen von Tilman Venzl zum Manuskript und zur Dramaturgie der Minna von Barnhelm; Susan Morrow über Bilder und Illusionen in Lessings Laokoon; Joseph Haydt über Ironie und Wahrheit in Lessings theologischen Schriften; Till Kinzel über Jaspers und Lessing; Katherine Goodman über Luise Gottscheds Panthea und die Freidenker; Gabriel Cooper über anti-jüdische Stereotype im 18. Jahrhundert; Stefanie Stockhorst und Sotirios Agrofylax über Zeitschriften als aufklärerische Praxis; Hamilton Beck zur Rezeption Hippels im 19. Jahrhundert, und ein Forum zu Intersektionalität und Aufklärungsforschung.