Performance And Femininity In Eighteenth Century German Women S Writing

Author : W. Arons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230600737

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Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing by W. Arons Pdf

In this book, Wendy Arons examines how women writers used theater and performance to investigate the problem of female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant discourse about ideal femininity. Arons shows how contemporary demands for sincerity and authenticity placed a peculiar burden on women in the public sphere, especially on actresses, who - like professional writers - overstepped the boundaries of what was considered proper behavior for women. Paradoxically, in their representations of ideal women engaged in performance, these writers expose ideal femininity as an impossible act, even as they attempt to perform it in their writing and in their lives.

Author : W. Arons
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1403973296

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Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing by W. Arons Pdf

In this book, Wendy Arons examines how women writers used theater and performance to investigate the problem of female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant discourse about ideal femininity. Arons shows how contemporary demands for sincerity and authenticity placed a peculiar burden on women in the public sphere, especially on actresses, who - like professional writers - overstepped the boundaries of what was considered proper behavior for women. Paradoxically, in their representations of ideal women engaged in performance, these writers expose ideal femininity as an impossible act, even as they attempt to perform it in their writing and in their lives.

Author : Helen Fronius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351565622

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German Women's Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Helen Fronius Pdf

German women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been the subject of feminist literary critical and historical studies for around thirty years. This volume, with contributions from an international group of scholars, takes stock of what feminist literary criticism has achieved in that time and reflects on future trends in the field. Offering both theoretical perspectives and individual case studies, the contributors grapple with the difficulties of appraising 'non-feminist' women writers and genres from a feminist perspective and present innovative approaches to research in early women's writing. This inclusive and cross- disciplinary collection of essays will enrich the study of German women's writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and contribute to contemporary debates in feminist literary criticism. Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University of London. Helen Fronius is College Lecturer in German at Keble College, University of Oxford.

Author : Helen Fronius
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199210923

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Women and Literature in the Goethe Era 1770-1820 by Helen Fronius Pdf

Late 18th-century German literature was dominated by men. Women were discouraged from reading and scorned as writers. This study combines archival research, literary analysis, and statistical evidence to give a sociological-historical overview of the conditions of women's literary production.

Author : Marjanne Elaine Goozé
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3039110187

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Challenging Separate Spheres by Marjanne Elaine Goozé Pdf

This collection of essays centers on women writers who negotiated, interrogated, and challenged the gender ideology of separate spheres through their advocacy and representations of female Bildung. The term Bildung encompasses an individual's entire moral, spiritual, behavioral, emotional, political and intellectual development. The contributors analyze works of fiction, memoirs, autobiographies, letters, the periodical press, and conduct and cookbooks from the mid-1700s to circa 1900 that confront the separate spheres paradigm and promote women's educational and personal development. They examine women's writing and reading practices, moral and gender philosophies, political activism, and work from the home to the stage and factory. Most writers did not repudiate outright existing gender models, but both subtly and overtly subverted and reinterpreted them. In all the texts, the process of female education leads to an assertion of agency. The writers came from different social classes and professional backgrounds, ranging from noblewomen to working-class autobiographers of the later nineteenth century. This volume will be of interest to German cultural, literary, and historical scholars, as well as to those concerned with the development of European feminism, women's education and autobiography.

Author : S. E. Jackson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Actresses
ISBN : 9781640140868

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The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought by S. E. Jackson Pdf

Around 1900, German and Austrian actresses had allure and status, apparent autonomy, and unconventional lifestyles. They presented a complex problem socially and aesthetically, one tied to the so-called Woman Question and to the contested status of modernity. For modernists, the actress's socioeconomic mobility and defiance of gender norms opened space to contest social and moral strictures, and her mutability offered a means to experiment with identity. For conservatives, on the other hand, female performance could support antifeminist convictions and validate masculine authority by positing woman as nothing but a false surface shaped by productive male forces. Influential male-authored texts from the period thereby disavowed female subjectivity per se by equating "woman" and "actress." S. E. Jackson establishes the actress as a key figure in a discursive matrix surrounding modernity, gender, and subjectivity. Her central argument is that because the figure of the actress bridged such varied fields of thought, women who were actresses had a consequential impact that resonated in and far beyond the theater - but has not been explored. Examining archival sources such as theater reviews and writing by actresses in direct relation to canonical aesthetic and philosophical texts, The Problem of the Actress reconstructs the constitutive role that womenplayed on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought.

Author : Wendy Arons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Feminism and theater
ISBN : UCSD:31822025809583

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Sophie Goes to the Theater by Wendy Arons Pdf

Author : Natalya Baldyga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135099282

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The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing by Natalya Baldyga Pdf

While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on dramatic theory is also that which continues to resonate with later generations – the Hamburg Dramaturgy (Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 1767–69). This collection of 104 short essays represents one of the eighteenth century’s most important critical engagements with the theater and its potential to promote humanistic discourse. Lessing’s essays are an immensely erudite, deeply engaged, witty, ironic, and occasionally scathing investigation of European theatrical culture, bolstered by deep analysis of Aristotelian dramatic theory and utopian visions of theater as a vehicle for human connection. This is the first complete English translation of Lessing's text, with extensive annotations that place the work in its historical context. For the first time, English-language readers can trace primary source references and link Lessing’s observations on drama, theory, and performance not only to the plays he discusses, but also to dramatic criticism and acting theory. This volume also includes three introductory essays that situate Lessing’s work both within his historical time period and in terms of his influence on Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment theater and criticism. The newly translated Hamburg Dramaturgy will speak to dramaturgs, directors, and humanities scholars who see theater not only for entertainment, but also for philosophical and political debate.

Author : Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350024755

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009 by Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal Pdf

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius (2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003), Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee: Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).

Author : Penny Farfan,Lesley Ferris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137270801

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Contemporary Women Playwrights by Penny Farfan,Lesley Ferris Pdf

Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes, Sarah Kane, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Caridad Svich, and Judith Thompson, but it also foregrounds important plays by many emerging writers. Divided into three sections-Histories, Conflicts, and Genres-the book explores such topics as the feminist history play, solo performance, transcultural dramaturgies, the identity play, the gendered terrain of war, and eco-drama, and encompasses work from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. With contributions from leading international scholars and an introductory overview of the concerns and challenges facing women playwrights in this new century, Contemporary Women Playwrights explores the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices and examining crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.

Author : Heather Davis-Fisch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137065995

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Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance by Heather Davis-Fisch Pdf

In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses to loss.

Author : N. Stubbs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137326874

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Cultivating National Identity through Performance by N. Stubbs Pdf

As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage.

Author : Katherine Goodman,Edith Josefine Waldstein
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791407438

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In the Shadow of Olympus by Katherine Goodman,Edith Josefine Waldstein Pdf

This anthology represents the first sustained feminist examination of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century German women writers in English. These essays highlight the literature produced by German women in the period 1790-1810, framing the discussions with a comparative orientation. The book analyzes in culturally specific detail how these authors came to constitute the first generation of writing women in Germany at a time when Goethe set the standard for literary production. Each essay focuses on the ambivalence of the author(s) toward literary and social models. The authors treated include Rahel Varnhagen, Charlotte von Stein, Friederike Helene Unger, Bettine von Arnim, Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Sophie Albrecht, Therese Huber, Sophie Mereau, Sophie von La Roche, Henriette Frolich, and Benedikte Naubert.

Author : S. Liu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137306111

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Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China by S. Liu Pdf

In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.

Author : M. Tian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137010438

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Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage by M. Tian Pdf

The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art.