Spirited Women Heroes

Major Female Characters in the Dramas of Goethe, Schiller and Kleist

von Julie D. Prandi

146 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The paradigms of conflict for spirited women in drama often differ from those of comparable male heroes. As a character active in determining her own fate, the spirited woman must choose between self-realization in the private sphere, the traditional stronghold or prison of women, and the public sphere, an area of particular peril for women. In either case the hero's identity is established largely by resistence to or direct defiance of the behavioral norms for her sex.

• Reihe: American University Studies
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1800 bis 1900
• ISBN: 9780820400334
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.12.1983
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York