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Grillparzer's Libussa : the tragedy of separation / / William C. Reeve



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Autore: Reeve William C. <1943-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Grillparzer's Libussa : the tragedy of separation / / William C. Reeve Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 pages)
Disciplina: 832/.6
Soggetto topico: German literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-288) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments -- Introductions -- The inescapable paternal legacy: act one -- Cooperation/integration versus competition/separation: act two -- Likes repel: act three -- Jockeying for position and apparent reconciliation: act four -- The final separation(s): act five -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: Reeve not only offers a close textual analysis of the drama from the aspect of separation but shows how Libussa and its author fit into the development of the history of ideas in nineteenth-century Europe. He contends that Grillparzer's work reflects Bachofen, Neumann, Nietzsche, Freud, and Lacan. Using Freudian psychoanalysis, Neumann's investigation of the female archetype, and anthropological studies, Reeve argues that Grillparzer's tragedy portrays the struggle between matriarchy and patriarchy, nurturers and warriors, and rural and urban cultures. Since Libussa proves unable to overcome the gender bias of here male subjects, the play concludes with a symbolic statement of masculine superiority as man and woman remain intellectually and physically apart. Reeve's analysis draws parallels with Grillparzer's other two completed posthumous tragedies, Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg and Die Jüdin von Toledo, relating his findings to the greater context of nineteenth-century German drama.
Titolo autorizzato: Grillparzer's Libussa  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-85792-4
9786612857928
0-7735-6769-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825143003321
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