Men Viewing Women as Art Objects: Studies in German LiteratureCamden House, 1998 - 103 sidor Varied images of women studied in a variety of German texts as a springboard for plot or character. A man looks at the portrait of a woman and then sets out to 'liberate'her and make her his own (Die Zauberflöte, Maria Stuart); an oldman, while looking at the picture of his youthful beloved, reminiscesabout his failedcourtship (Storm's Immensee). These are just twoof many uses of art works depicting women discussed in this book. Theart work can displace the living woman as in Hauff's 'Die Bettlerinvom Pont des Arts', in Jensen's 'Gradiva', and in Schimmang's'Intimität'. A man looking at a painting of himself (E. T. A.Hoffmann's Die Fermate) or a man looking at a sculpture comes toappreciate the beauty of the female figure, both in art and life(Stifter's Der Nachsommer). The innovative approach, which in part goes back to theories developed by Lessing in his Laokoon, yields, via a close reading of a variety of the texts, new insights into their structure and meaning. |
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The Female Portrait as a Spur to Possession | 5 |
Possession of a Woman by Design | 23 |
Prophetic Vision | 53 |
Seeing and Enlightenment | 72 |
The Choice of Art Object | 89 |
25 | 102 |
The Inside Story | 1 |
The Painting as Transgression of Time and Space | 5 |
Truism | 13 |
Allusive Resonance in the Woodcut in Spensers April | 25 |
A First Step Towards the Creation | 41 |
Voices of Prophecy and Prayer in Thomas Nashes Christs Tears | 51 |
The Nurse and the Wise Woman | 71 |
Female Speech | 87 |
Edward II and Richard II | 99 |