Das Unnatürliche im Blonden Eckbert: ein Ringen aus Begehren und Schuld
Journal Title: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature - Year 2018, Vol 42, Issue 2
Abstract
The sibling incest is an aspect that does not fit into the realistic (conscious), nature-related, or unreal (magical) action levels of this literary fairy tale. The reason for this unnatural sexuality may lie in the abnormally stunted forms of the desires and guilt exhibited by Bertha and Eckbert: unconscious versus purposeful striving and ethical versus moral culpability. This article argues that only during their unnatural deaths in the respectively “wrong” realms does each partner gain the missing attributes so that their natural and normal existence is paradoxically – and romantically! – restored
Authors and Affiliations
Birgit A. Jensen
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP408900
- DOI 10.17951/lsmll.2018.42.2.1-19
- Views 47
- Downloads 0
Rhotic Phonemes in Semitic Languages – The Case of Classical Arabic and Biblical Hebrew
Classical Arabic and Biblical Hebrew represent two opposite directions of the development of Proto-Semitic phonological system. This also refers to the rhotic phonemes /r/ and /ġ/. The comparison of the situation of thei...
Une démythification de l’histoire algérienne : enjeux du récit de soi dans l’œuvre de Boualem Sansal
As a fully committed writer, Boualem Sansal has “stepped in literature as he would have put on a combat gear”, to dismantle poisonous myths that prevent, for him, post-independent Algeria to look dispassionately into the...
Calque linguistique et transfert sémantique
Many idiomatic expressions specific to the French language have been translated into Arabic in favour of the contact between these two languages. However, these expressions cannot be easily located in Arabic since they r...
An Investigation of ELT Student Teachers’ Dictionary Ownership and Preferences
Alongside with many societal changes, technology has also started to change the teaching and learning of EFL especially since the turn of the millennium. Multimedia based and audio visual materials are now easily accessi...
Représentations de l’eau dans les essais yourcenariens
Adept of metamorphosis, Marguerite Yourcenar repeatedly uses in her essays the image of water, fluid elements related to the idea of transformation and rebirth; sea, ocean, artificial fountain – water takes various aspec...