Peter C. Pfeiffer : Genre, Gender, and Aesthetic Evaluation of Novels of Adultery: Theodor Fontane’s "Effi Briest" and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach’s "Unsühnbar".

Author

Peter C. Pfeiffer

Title

Genre, Gender, and Aesthetic Evaluation of Novels of Adultery: Theodor Fontane’s "Effi Briest" and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach’s "Unsühnbar".

In

Colloquia Germanica, Tübingen, Bd. 52, Heft 1-2, [Januar] 2021, S. 131-148

Year

2021

Remarks

Zusammenfassung: "The article does a contrastive reading of two novels of adultery, Fontane’s Effi Briest and Ebner-Eschenbach’s Unsühnbar and asks how a gendered perspective challenges conventions in this very masculine genre. The two examples show how the ground rules are completely changed depending on the perspective taken. The essay argues that the aesthetic evaluation of the texts need to take those changes into account and not continue to reproduce the standard canon as exemplars of aesthetically valuable contributions."

Classification

• AlleSekundärliteraturZu einzelnen erzählerischen WerkenEffi BriestUntersuchungen und Darstellungen

Keywords

Sekundärliteratur; Erzählwerke; Romane; Effi Briest; Untersuchungen

Bibliographic reference

33/14.2.2021.01.1

Print edition

Nachträge

Signature

P 83

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