Title: Embodying ambiguity
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Aesthetics, German, Androgyny (Psychology) in literature, Bildungsromans, German Aesthetics, German literature, History and criticism, Androgynie, Duits, Esthetique allemande, Litterature allemande, Histoire et critique, German Bildungsromans, Bildungsroman, Androgynie dans la litterature, Ontwikkelingsromans, German literature, history and criticism, 18th century, German literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Androgyny (psychology)
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century
LC classification: PT313 .M33 1998