The “Unspeakable Crime”

Authors

  • Angela Koch München, Kulturwissenschaft

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/406

Keywords:

Gewalt, Literatur, Neuzeit, Recht, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Gesa Dane’s study of Vergewaltigung in Literatur und Politik (Rape in Literature and Politics) is a precise analysis of literary “rape cases” presented against the backdrop of the respective contemporary legal situations. Texts by baroque authors such as Grimmelhausen, Lohenstein or Calderón de la Barca play a prominent role, as do those by authors from the end of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries such as Wagner, Goethe, Kleist, Lessing or Hahn-Hahn. Dane probed these texts as to their anthropological conceptions of honor, shame, and disgrace and as to the taboo of speaking about sexual violence.

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Published

2006-03-08

Issue

No. 18 (2006): Biografik – Lebensgeschichten

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2006 Angela Koch

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