Ausgesetzte Schöpfung: Figuren der Souveränität und Ethik der Differenz in der Prosa Else Lasker-Schülers

Doerte Bischoff

Published by De Gruyter 2002

Ausgesetzte Schöpfung

Figuren der Souveränität und Ethik der Differenz in der Prosa Else Lasker-Schülers

Creation in Abeyance. Figures of sovereignty and the ethics of difference in Else Lasker-Schüler's prose.

Doerte Bischoff

Volume 95 in the series Hermaea. Neue Folge

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110946185

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Else Lasker-Schüler's prose works cover the period from 1906 to 1937. Their multifarious links with central literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic works of the modern age demonstrate the degree to which they are embedded in different contemporaneous discourses. The perspective they cast on modern discourse patterns is a very original one, linking figures representing sovereignty with the categories gender and body. Royal figures and powerholders show a marked inclination to absolutize their power by eradicating all (gender) difference. The enactment of such self-creation fantasms aimed at collapsing symbol and body delineates the poetological and the historical/political dimensions of a radical crisis of representation. The study draws on discourse analysis, cultural anthropology and psycho-semiotics for its arguments, explicitly mapping its frame of reference to encompass historical and biographical aspects (First World War, Zionism, National Socialist persecution of the Jews, exile, etc.) and showing how the ethics of difference outlined in these texts relates to Jewish tradition.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Inhaltsverzeichnis Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Danksagung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Siglenverzeichnis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
I. Exposition: statt einer Einleitung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. Raum-Grenzen und Grenz-Räume in der Moderne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
III. Vater-Name und Text-Körper: »Das Peter Hille-Buch« Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
IV. Souveränität und Maskerade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
V. Elemente einer Poet(h)ik der Gabe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
VI. Schlußwort Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
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(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2015
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 523
Keywords: Lasker-Schüler, Else; Prosa; Ethik; Das Andere; Geschlechtsunterschied

eBook

Published: March 10, 2015
ISBN: 9783110946185

Hardcover

Published: March 2, 2002
ISBN: 9783484150959