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Marriage and Divorce in the Plays of Hermann Sudermann
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Artikel-Nr:
9783631500194
Veröffentl:
1996
Seiten:
278
Autor:
Karl Leydecker
Gewicht:
370 g
Format:
210x148x32 mm
Serie:
1559, Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies/Publications Universitaires Européenne
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The Author: Karl Leydecker studied English and Modern Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford University. He spent a year as a DAAD Scholar at Passau University in 1988 to 1989, and two years at Hamburg University as a Hanseatic Scholar of the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. in 1992 to 1994. In 1994/1995 he taught at the University of Wales Lampeter, and in September 1995 he took up a Lectureship in German at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
This study investigates Sudermann's plays from a socio-historical and literary-historical perspective. His plays are a response to a crisis of marriage. That crisis had its roots in the Romantic period and came to a head when the conservative Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch was introduced in 1900. Of particular significance is Es lebe das Leben (1902). The manuscripts of this play reveal that here Sudermann moved from a Realist treatment of marital difficulties to an exploration of the crisis of the realist literary system and a search for a Modernist treatment of divorce. His plays on marriage, divorce, courtship and the problems of single men and women constitute a sustained attempt to modify or at times radically to challenge the presentation of marriage in the Realist literary system.
Contents: The ideology and law of marriage 1794-1900 - The crisis of marriage c. 1900 - The ambivalent presentation of marriage crises, divorce, courtship and elective affinity in Sudermann's plays - Sudermann's plays on marriage viewed as a modified Realist system.