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"Ein ungeheurer Umschwung aller Verhältnisse" Gespenster, Revolution und poetische Sprache in Grillparzers Ahnfrau
Michler, Werner
2023
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e-ISSN
2283-6438
Abstract
In the long shadow of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Franz Grillparzer’s debut drama Die Ahnfrau (1817) operates with motifs from contemporary popular literature. The uncanny, the criminal and the sexual, robbers and ghosts are brought together by the drama against the background of their contemporary political codes in a suspenseful fusion. The expressive dramatic language of the Ahnfrau takes up linguistic topoi of Gothic literature and organizes them into a language that privileges the semiotic over the symbolic.
Source
Werner Michler, ""Ein ungeheurer Umschwung aller Verhältnisse" Gespenster, Revolution und poetische Sprache in Grillparzers Ahnfrau" in: "2023 / 28 Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2023, pp. 55-79
Languages
de
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