1.

Record Nr.

UNICASBVE0061382

Autore

Hillgruber, Michael

Titolo

1: Einleitung und Kommentar zu den Kapiteln 1-73 / von Michael Hillgruber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart [etc.], : B. G. Teubner, 1994

ISBN

3519076063

Descrizione fisica

IX, 190 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 57

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Greco antico

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961618303321

Autore

Arons Wendy <1964->

Titolo

Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing : The Impossible Act / / by W. Arons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

9786611360740

9781281360748

1281360740

9780230600737

0230600735

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History, , 2947-5775

Disciplina

830.9/928709033

Soggetti

Education

Literature

Theater - History

European literature

Theatre History

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Sophie" and the "Theater"; 2 Performance as Power: The History of Lady von Sternheim; 3 The Performance of a Lifetime: Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld; 4 Antitheatricality and the Public Woman: Marianne Ehrmann's Amalie: A True Story in Letters; 5 The Eye of the Beholder: Elise Bürger's "Aglaja" and F. H. Unger's Melanie, the Foundling; 6 Play's the Thing: Sophie Mereau's "Marie" and "Flight to the City"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.