Crisis of Orientation and the Discourse of Violence of the Fin de Siècle

Authors

  • António Ribeiro Universität Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/151

Keywords:

Gewalt, Identität, Literatur, Macht, Neuzeit, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

The ritualisation of violence through the character of the victim represents an important aesthetic procedure in fin de siècle literature. Brittnacher’s work investigates the meaning of the motive of victimization in the works of Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Borchardt, Flaubert, Wilde, George, and D’Annunzio. Brittnacher succeeds at documenting that the ideology of victimization is closely linked to a gender-specific system of power in which males, unsure of their mascuilinity, look for ways to stabilize their identities.

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Published

2002-11-01

Issue

No. 8 (2002): Literaturwissenschaften II

Section

Schwerpunkt

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Copyright (c) 2002 António Ribeiro

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