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THE RHETORICAL FEMININE
GENDER AND ORIENT ON THE GERMAN STAGE, 1647-1742 |
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Sarah Colvin |
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ISBN 10: |
0198186363 |
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9780198186366 |
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
19 August, 1999 |
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Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs |
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342 |
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This book takes a fresh look at theatre - including the important new genre of opera - in early modern Germany. Designed for public entertainment and improvement, these were the creations of Christian men in turbulent times. Many of their anxieties found expression in portrayals of non-Christians and women. Taking as a starting-point the importance of rhetoric in early modern boys' education, this study considers the relationship between theatre, persuasion, andsocial stability, and looks at how the stage helps to develop ideas about women and non-Christian peoples which have not lost their relevance today. |
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The Rhetorical Feminine takes a fresh look at theatre - including the important new genre of opera - in early modern Germany. Central to this study is the relationship of the stage with ideas of order or social control. Early German school drama was designed to teach rhetoric to boys: a detail which has up to now been accepted by scholars without further questioning. This investigation focuses on how that rhetoric was used, with particular reference to ideas of the feminine and of the Islamic world. Both are constructed as the potentially threatening others of early modern patriarchal Christendom. In containing the threat, the stage becomes the controllable version of the early modern theatrum mundi. In opera, the dynamic of the text is supported by music. The author has found it necessary to cross the boundary of traditional literary scholarship by looking not only at the libretti, but also at the rhetoric of the score. The suggestion here is not that the construction of alterity is an isolated phenomenon in early modern Germany; men have always used their relative monopoly of the arts for self-definition.While feminist scholarship has tended to concentrate on the relevance of this for women, it has also pertained to non-Christians or 'the Orient', which is often portrayed as analogous with the feminine. |
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Clarendon Press |
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