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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825150803321
• Autore: Reeve William C. <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 1-282-85743-6; 9786612857430; 0-7735-6535-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.