Title: Fathers and daughters : patterns of seduction in tragedies by Gryphius, Lessing, Hebbel, and Kroetz /
Authors: Walsøe-Engel, Ingrid, 1953-
Publisher: Camden House,
Year: 1993
Subjects: German drama (Tragedy) History and criticism.; Seduction in literature.; Fathers and daughters in literature.
Contents: 1. The Daughter's Seduction -- A Definition of Seduction -- The Tragic Seduction -- The Patterns of Seduction -- 2. Seduction Defeated: Catharina von Georgien -- Catharina: A Christian Syrinx -- Chach Abas: Tyrannical Seducer -- Abas: The Promising Tyrant -- Time and the Seducer -- Abas and His Rivals -- Catharina von Georgien: Bride or Victim? -- The Martyred Bride -- The Metaphorical Discourse of Seduction -- Rupture and Scandal -- 3. The Path to Seduction Tragedy: An Enlightened Transition -- The Transition to Seduction Tragedy: Miss Sara Sampson -- The Reluctant Martyr: Emilia Galotti -- 4. The Ambiguity of Seduction: Emilia Galotti -- Patterns of Seduction: Emilia, Virginia and Lucretia -- The (Critical) Victimization and Complicity of Emilia Galotti: Does Emilia love the Prince? -- The Silences of Seduction -- The Language of Seduction -- Rupture and Scandal -- 5. Martyrdom Defeated: Maria Magdalena -- Beyond the Borders of Good and Evil -- In the Shadow of Lucretia -- Promises of Marriage; Promises of Death -- Rupture and Death -- 6. Epilogue : The End of Seduction Kroetz's Maria Magdalena.