Performance and femininity in eighteenth-century German women's writing : the impossible act /

In Performance and Femininity, Arons examines a series of texts by eighteenth-century German women in order to illuminate how women writers of the time used theater and performance both to investigate female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant cultural discourse of femininity. Arons's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arons, Wendy, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Temas:
1700-1799
Women authors, German > 18th century.
German literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
German literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Performance in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Littérature allemande > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Rendement au travail dans la littérature.
Féminité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Femininity in literature
German literature
German literature > Women authors
Performance in literature
Women authors, German
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Sophie" and the "Theater"
  • Performance as power : the history of Lady von Sternheim
  • The performance of a lifetime: Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld
  • Antitheatricality and the public woman : Marianne Ehrmann's Amalie : a true story in letters
  • The eye of the beholder: Elise Börger's "Aglaja" and F.H. Unger's Melanie, the Foundling
  • Play's the thing: Sophie Mereau's "Marie" and "Flight to the city."

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