Queering the canon
Subtitle: defying sights in German literature and culture
By: edited by Christoph Lorey and John L. Plews.
Contributors: Lorey, Christoph.; Plews, John L.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Columbia, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: German literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Homosexuality and literature.; Arts, German.; Homosexuality and art.; Homosexuality -- Philosophy.; Gay and lesbian studies.
Description: This collection of essays exposes points of queerness, marginality, and alterity present in the German canon and introduces further deviation from traditional German literature and culture in the form of openly lesbian and gay works. It provides new queer analyses of texts by canonical authors such as Goethe, Schiller. Thomas and Klaus Mann, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Reinig, and Elfriede Jelinek, yet discusses works that have seldom received scholarly attention.

It also breaks the traditional limitation of Germanistik to the study of literature by including essays on aspects of German culture such as music, film, fine art and art history, and politics and law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [434]-472) and index.