LEADER 04452nam 22006012 450 001 9911008478403321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a1-282-79566-X 010 $a9786612795664 010 $a1-57113-746-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571137463 035 $a(CKB)2670000000047314 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000425137 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11292304 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425137 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10475333 035 $a(PQKB)11084877 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571137463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003701 035 $a(DE-B1597)676663 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571137463 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000047314 100 $a20120822d2009|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerspectives on gender in post-1945 German literature /$fGeorgina Paul 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-57113-423-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tGender, subjectivity, and cultural critique from the fin de sie?cle to fascism --$tThe post-1945 crisis of enlightenment and the emergence of the "other" sex --$tChallenging masculine subjectivity : Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina --$tFrom his point of view : Max Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein --$tThe critique of instrumental reason : Max Frisch's Homo Faber and Christa Wolf's Sto?rfall --$tPathologies : Elfriede Jelinek's Die Klavierspielerin and Rainald Goetz's Irre --$tEnd visions : Heiner Mu?ller's Die Hamletmaschine and Christa Wolf's Kassandra --$tBeyond the impasse? : Barbara Ko?hler's "Elektra. Spiegelungen." 330 $aRooted in Enlightenment rationalism, modernity tends to privilege masculine-connoted characteristics - conscious subjective agency, rational control and self-containment, the subjugation of nature - and has generated a conceptualization of human subjectivity emphasizing these qualities. Yet the costs of this conception of human selfhood are high, and at modernity's most acute moments of historical crisis writers and artists can be seen turning to feminine-connoted figurations - nature, tradition, myth and spirituality, intuition, relationality, flux. In recent decades studies have examined the cultural crisis of German modernity, notably at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, as a crisis of masculinity. Feminist critiques, meanwhile, have viewed cultural history as male-generated and 'phallocentric,' in need of a feminine corrective. The innovation of this book is to examine these two gendered perspectives side by side, investigating the culturally symbolic significance of gender in post 1945 German language literature via a sequence of paired readings of major, thematically related texts by male and female authors, including Ingeborg Bachmann's novel 'Malina' (1971) and Max Frisch's 'Mein Name sei Gantenbein' (1964); Frisch's 'Homo Faber' (1957) and Christa Wolf's 'Sto?rfall' (1987); Elfriede Jelinek's 'Die Klavierspielerin' and Rainald Goetz's 'Irre' (both 1983); and Heiner Mu?ller's 'Die Hamletmaschine' (1977) and Christa Wolf's 'Kassandra' (1983). Finally, Barbara Ko?hler's eight-poem cycle 'Elektra. Spiegelungen' (written 1984-85; published 1991) is considered as offering a way past the 'impasse' of the male and female viewpoints. Georgina Paul is University Lecturer in German at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Hilda's College. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) 606 $aGerman literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSex (Psychology) in literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSex (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a840.9/353 686 $aGN 1411$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aPaul$b Georgina$01642858 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008478403321 996 $aPerspectives on gender in post-1945 German literature$94393835 997 $aUNINA