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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Faust; Faust; Faust; Johannes Faust; Johannes Faust; Faust |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Helga Druxes |
ISBN: | 0271007591 9780271007595 |
OCLC Number: | 22734175 |
Description: | 148 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : Faustian desire feminized : the need for social regeneration and the crisis of artistic production -- The education of a Faustian heroine : Stendhal's Lamiel -- The failed education of a Faustian hero : Keller's Grüne Heinrich -- Faustian desire and the play of difference : Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin -- The Faustian quest internalized : James's Portrait of a lady -- Salvaging Faust for socialism : Morgner's Trobadora Beatriz and Amanda. |
Responsibility: | Helga Druxes. |
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Abstract:
This volume is an analysis of the development of female heroic subjectivity in relation to an essentially male quest for individuation, the Romantic myth of Faust. It examines the female Faust figure in the realist novels of Stendhal, Gauthier, Keller, James and Morgner.
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"This book will contribute not only to the study of a central myth in Western culture but also to genre studies of the novel, as well as to feminist work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction-an area where much less has been done in German and comparative literature than in the individual national traditions in English and French."-Gail Finney, University of California, Davis Read more...
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