Grillparzer's Libussa
Subtitle: the tragedy of separation
By: William C. Reeve.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Grillparzer, Franz, 1791-1872
Description: "In Grillparzer's Libussa William Reeve provides an important interpretation of a work that has received little detailed attention from European and American critics. Reeve not only offers a close textual analysis of the drama focusing on the theme of separation but shows how Libussa and its author fit into the development of the history of ideas in nineteenth-century Europe. He contends that Grillparzer's work anticipates Bachofen, Nietzsche, Freud, Neumann, and Lacan.".

"Using Freudian psychoanalysis, Neumann's investigation of the female archetype, and anthropological studies, Reeve argues that Grillparzer's tragedy portrays the struggle between matriarchy and patriarchy, nurturers and warriors, and rural and urban cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introductions; title: The inescapable paternal legacy: act one; title: Cooperation/integration versus competition/separation: act two; title: Likes repel: act three; title: Jockeying for position and apparent reconciliation: act four; title: The final separation(s): act five; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Works cited; title: Index.