Embodying ambiguity
Subtitle: androgyny and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller
By: Catriona MacLeod.
Series: Kritik; Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Androgyny (Psychology) in literature.; Aesthetics, German -- 18th century.; Aesthetics, German -- 19th century.; Bildungsromans -- History and criticism.
Description: Embodying Ambiguity traces the shifts in the representation of the androgyny myth in the literature and aesthetics of the late eighteenth century and nineteenth century.

Catriona MacLeod examines important pedagogic implications of the androgyny ideal for Classical, Romantic, and Realist texts, beginning with Aristophane's narrative of the origin of human sexuality in Plato's Symposium and including the hermaphroditic androgyny proposed by Winckelmann and the heterosexual complementary model found in Schiller and Schlegel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-292) and index.