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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782729703321

Autore

Reeve William C. <1943->

Titolo

The Federfuchser, penpusher from Lessing to Grillparzer : a study focused on Grillparzer's Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg / / William C. Reeve

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Buffalo : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-282-85743-6

9786612857430

0-7735-6535-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages)

Disciplina

832/.6

Soggetti

German drama - 18th century - History and criticism

German drama - 19th century - History and criticism

Secretaries in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 In His Servant's Footsteps; 3 The Pen Triumphs; 4 Role Reversals; 5 He Who Lives by the Pen ...; 6 Summation; 7 Klesel's Antecedents; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reeve provides a detailed discussion of Klesel's importance in Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg and examines possible predecessors for the Federfuchser: Wurm from Friedrich von Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, the Sekretär in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Die natürliche Tochter, and Leonhard in Friedrich Hebbel's Maria Magdalene. He focuses on the features they share, such as deep-seated resentment of social superiors who, by a mere accident of birth, have power over them and, above all, the cunning that they use to overcome their social disqualifications.