Rhetorical Feminine - Gender and Orient on the German Stage, 1647-1742

Zusatztext Colvin's book is perhaps the most critically sophisticated monograph to appear in the field of early modern German literature. Informationen zum Autor 1990-92, Hanseatic Scholar, University of Hamburg; 1992-95, Senior Scholar, Christ Church Oxford; 1995-97, Junior Research Fellow, St John's College Oxford; 1997, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Zusammenfassung This volume takes a fresh look at theatre, including opera, in early modern Germany. Central to the study is the relationship of the stage with ideas of order or social control and how rhetoric was used against the potentially threatening "others" of the feminine and the Islamic.

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• Authors: Sarah Colvin, Sarah (Lecturer in German Colvin, Colvin Sarah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1999
• EAN: 9780198186366
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818636-6
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, german, Opera, Islamic Studies, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Feminism & feminist theory, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, C 1600 To C 1700, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, C 1700 To C 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Islamic styles, MUSIC / Religious / Muslim