Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Austria (3)
- Criticism and interpretation (3)
- German (3)
- Sophie Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women (3)
- Flaneuse (2)
-
- German literature (2)
- German-speaking women authors (2)
- Vienna (2)
- Walter Benjamin (2)
- Wien (2)
- Women's literature (2)
- World War II (2)
- 1791-1858 (1)
- 1825-1905 (1)
- Aesthetics (1)
- Africa (1)
- Agnes von Lilien (1)
- Alfred Döblin (1)
- Allgemeine Österreichische Frauenverein (1)
- Amalia Schoppe (1)
- Ann Tizia Leitich (1)
- Ante Pavelic (1)
- Apocalypse (1)
- Apocalyptic (1)
- Apocalypticism (1)
- Argentina (1)
- Aura (1)
- Austrian Argentine (1)
- Austrian Feuilletons (1)
- Austro-American Relations (1)
- Publication Year
Articles 31 - 32 of 32
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Inszenierungen Einer Frau: Die Rollen, Werke Und Einschätzungen Der Franziska Gräfin Zu Reventlow, Julie K. Smith
Inszenierungen Einer Frau: Die Rollen, Werke Und Einschätzungen Der Franziska Gräfin Zu Reventlow, Julie K. Smith
Undergraduate Honors Theses
It is possible to stage a woman such as Franziska Gräfin/countess zu Reventlow in a myriad of characters and figures. Her richness on adventures and on her literary handling provides many possibilities of interpretation. Reventlow liked to stage herself and often, with varying degrees of bourgeois outrage or enthusiasm as a result. This self-staging as well as her foreign productions testify of a complex system of identity finding and definition of reality. On the one hand, she was admired by many as the fulfillment of their dreams or a symbol of an era. On the other hand, she experimented with …
Mormon Stereotypes In Nineteenth Century German Literature: The Fiction Of Amalie Schoppe And Balduin M Ollhausen, Robert Lee Warthen
Mormon Stereotypes In Nineteenth Century German Literature: The Fiction Of Amalie Schoppe And Balduin M Ollhausen, Robert Lee Warthen
Theses and Dissertations
Leonard J. Arrington and Jon Haupt have identified seven stereotypes of Mormons in nineteenth century American fiction which influenced public opinion about them, ultimately resulting in anti-Mormon legislation. Since westerns were also extremely popular in Germany, the writings of two popular German novelists of the eighteen hundreds, Amalie Schoppe and Balduin Mollhausen, were analyzed to determine whether their Mormon characters are similarly stereotyped. Mormon stereotypes associated with adventure writing were found in the works of both authors, but not those associated with polemical novels. It was concluded that their writing still had an adverse effect on public opinion, though the …