Elektra and Her Sisters
Subtitle: Three Female Characters in Schnitzler, Freud and Hofmannsthal
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780820423272
Subjects: Germanic Literature; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; European - German; Continental European; European - General; General; 20th century; Austria; Austrian literature; History and criticism; Vienna; Women In Literature
Description: "The five essays in this book examine the connections between literary censorship and the political repression of women in Arthur Schnitzler's Frau Berta Garlan, Sigmund Freud's case history of "Dora," and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra - three male representations of female characters in Hapsburg Austria between 1900 and 1905."--BOOK JACKET.