Format:
x, 242 Seiten.
ISBN:
978-0-8101-4011-0
Content:
Introduction -- Mackles, mess, and metalepsis -- Double the drama (transorgasmics) -- Mammalogic and analgrammar -- Camp (drummer boys) -- Offstage onstage, or how to crack an emotion -- Obscene lesbians and lost queers
Content:
"Sex Changes with Kleist" analyzes how the dramatist and poet Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) responded to a change in the conception of sex and gender that occurred between 1790 and 1810. Specifically, Katrin Pahl shows that Kleist resisted the shift from a one-sex to the two-sex and complementary gender system that is still prevalent today. With creative close readings engaging all eight of his plays, Pahl probes Kleist's appreciation for incoherence, his experimentation with alternative symbolic orders, his provocative understanding of emotion, and his camp humor. Pahl demonstrates that rather than preparing modern homosexuality, Kleist puts an end to modern gender norms even before they take hold and refuses the oppositional organization of sexual desire into homosexual and heterosexual that sprouts from these norms. Focusing on the theatricality of Kleist's interventions in the performance of gender, sexuality, and emotion and examining how his dramatic texts unhinge major tenets of classical European theater, "Sex Changes with Kleist" is vital reading for anyone interested in queer studies, feminist studies, performance studies, literary studies, or emotion studies. This book changes our understanding of Kleist and breathes new life into queer thought--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 9780810140127
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9780810140134
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
1777-1811 Kleist, Heinrich von
;
Sexualität
;
Literatur
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031552041&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
