From the Home Fires to the Battlefield: Mothers in German Expressionist Drama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820434858)

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Format: Hardcover
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From the Home Fires to the Battlefield: Mothers in German Expressionist Drama

$46.95

From the Home Fires to the Battlefield: Mothers in German Expressionist Drama

$46.95
Format: Hardcover
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Literary criticism considers the father-son conflict to be one of the standard themes of German Expressionist drama. Closer examination reveals, however, that clashes limited to fathers and sons are less ubiquitous in Expressionism than many critics assume and that mothers actually assume significant roles in the plots of many plays. The interpretation of plays by Frank Wedekind, Carl Sternheim, Georg Kaiser, Arnolt Bronnen, Reinhard Johannes Sorge, and Fritz von Unruh illustrates the spectrum of maternal roles in Expressionist drama. From The Home Fires To The Battlefield studies criticism of social standard and mores that define the role of women, and especially mothers, in Wilhelminian society.

Author: Peter D. G. Brown,Jean Wotschke
ISBN-10: 082043485X
ISBN-13: 9780820434858
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.30w x 0.73d
By Peter D. G. Brown
By Peter D. G. Brown
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The Author: Jean Wotschke teaches German literature at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in Germanic languages and literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Ph.D. in German at The Pennsylvania State University. Her primary research interests include political and social criticism in literature, as well as German-American literary relations.

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