Women in the Works of Lou Andreas-Salomé
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20th Century
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Austria
Author_Muriel Cormican
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Contemporary Theoretical Discourses
Cultural Context
Cultural Crisis
Cultural Vanguard
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Femininity
feminism
Fictional Works
Freud
Gender
German Literature
Historical Context
Identity
Identity Politics
Lou Andreas-Salome
Masculinity
Muriel Cormican
Narrative
Narrative Theory
Nietzsche
Rilke
Sexuality
Sociopolitical Context
University of West Georgia
Women
Women's Studies
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- ISBN 9781571134141
- Weight: 442g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2009
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Comprehensive view of Andreas-Salomé's fictional works, focusing on her depictions of women and questions of narrative and identity.
The writer and intellectual Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) fascinates scholars of German literature because of her associations with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud and because she was active in the cultural and intellectual vanguardof late 19th- and early 20th-century Germany and Austria. Recent editions of her fictional works have garnered wider attention from scholars of literature and theory, particularly those interested in women's studies, identity politics, and narrative theory. This study analyzes how Andreas-Salomé depicted women in her fictional works just as feminism was emerging, revealing a complex engagement with questions of narrative and identity. More than mere thematic explorations of women's changing roles in society, her works investigate the concept of identity and its relationship to gender, sexuality, and narrative representation. She is as concerned with a cultural crisis of femininityand masculinity as with the identity crises of her individual women characters. This book offers the best account of Andreas-Salomé's literary works, de-emphasizing biographical and psychoanalytical perspectives but taking into account the sociopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts in which they were written. It also adds to contemporary theoretical discourses on gender, feminism, and identity.
Muriel Cormican is Professor of German at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia.
MURIEL CORMICAN is Professor of German and Chair of Modern Language Studies at Texas Christian University.
