Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Feminist Literary Criticism, General & Miscellaneous German Literature - Literary Criticism, 18th-19th Century German Literature - Literary Criticism, 20th Century German Literature - Literary Criticism, Femin
Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
BOOK SYNOPSIS IN GERMANIm Weiblichkeitsdiskurs um 1900 wurde die Frau weigehend als Sinnbild der Sexualität oder als sprachloses Objekt dargestellt. Man sprach den Frauen schöpferische Fähigkeiten ab. Dieses Buch befalßt sich mit der Problematik weiblicher Sprachlosigkeit und Kreativität in ausgewählten Frauenromanen der Jahrhundertwende. Es untersucht die ambivalente Haltung dieser Autorinnen zu ihrem Geschlecht sowie die Frage, inwieweit ibre Werke von den standartisierten Weiblichkeitsbildern der Zeit beeinflulßt wurden.
BOOK SYNOPSIS IN ENGLISH
The discourses on femininity in nineteenth-century Germany considered women as speechless objects and as incarnation of sexuality. The discursive practices denied women creative capabilities. This book focuses on female speechlessness and creativity in selected novels by four turn-of-the century women writers. The study examines the ambivalent attitude of these authors towards their gender and the question of how their works were influenced by the prevalent images of femininity.
Book Details
Published
October 1, 1998
Publisher
New York : P. Lang, c1998.
Pages
188
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820439624