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Sexuality, Gender And Identity In Selected Works Of Arthur Schnitzler, Michelle L Webster Aug 2010

Sexuality, Gender And Identity In Selected Works Of Arthur Schnitzler, Michelle L Webster

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate Arthur Schnitzler’s depiction of three female figures in short stories with a specific focus on how the figures are portrayed in relation to socially sanctioned roles in late nineteenth and early twentieth century German-speaking Europe. The figures and works selected as subjects of this study were Friederike in Die Frau des Weisen (1898), Elise in Der Mörder (1921) and Else in Fräulein Else (1924). The primary question that was investigated was whether Schnitzler depicted these female figures in a manner that could be interpreted as impacting the loosening of the grip of …