Edward T Potter
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward T Potter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward T |
| FAMILY NAME | Potter |
| SIGNATURE | POTTER E T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Mein Blut wird heiß, mein Zorn drängt sich hervor”
In humoral medicine, the humors—blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile—exist in equilibrium in healthy individuals. Temperaments arise when one humor predominates. Friedrich Maximilian Klinger’s tragedy Die Zwillinge (1776) portrays its protagonist as suffering from an uncontrolled choleric temperament, a sickness that erupts into brutal violence. Lavater’s theories of physiognomics play a role, too, as characters exhibit a scientific gaze focusi…
Aristocrats as Targets of Satire in Cornelius von Ayrenhoff’s Comedies
This article examines three comedies by Cornelius von Ayrenhoff (1733–1819): Der Postzug oder die noblen Passionen (1769), Die große Batterie (1770), and Erziehung macht den Menschen (1785). All three comedies satirize aristocratic characters. The article combines an examination of these comedies within the literary-historical framework of the Austrian adoption and adaptation of J. C. Gottsched’s theater reforms with an analysis of Ayrenhoff’s co…
The Clothes Make the Man
Schlegel's 1748 comedy takes the potentially liberating historical practice of female cross‐dressing and restructures it by using it to promote a sentimental conception of marriage based on love, mutual compatibility, and free partner choice and by emptying this contemporary cultural phenomenon of any potentially liberating features, thereby defusing non‐normative gender performance. Schlegel's text highlights culturally constructed aspects of ge…
Hypochondriacal Homoeroticism
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The Clothes Make the Man
Schlegel's 1748 comedy takes the potentially liberating historical practice of female cross‐dressing and restructures it by using it to promote a sentimental conception of marriage based on love, mutual compatibility, and free partner choice and by emptying this contemporary cultural phenomenon of any potentially liberating features, thereby defusing non‐normative gender performance. Schlegel's text highlights culturally constructed aspects of ge…
Hypochondriacal Homoeroticism
Aristocrats as Targets of Satire in Cornelius von Ayrenhoff’s Comedies
This article examines three comedies by Cornelius von Ayrenhoff (1733–1819): Der Postzug oder die noblen Passionen (1769), Die große Batterie (1770), and Erziehung macht den Menschen (1785). All three comedies satirize aristocratic characters. The article combines an examination of these comedies within the literary-historical framework of the Austrian adoption and adaptation of J. C. Gottsched’s theater reforms with an analysis of Ayrenhoff’s co…
“Mein Blut wird heiß, mein Zorn drängt sich hervor”
In humoral medicine, the humors—blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile—exist in equilibrium in healthy individuals. Temperaments arise when one humor predominates. Friedrich Maximilian Klinger’s tragedy Die Zwillinge (1776) portrays its protagonist as suffering from an uncontrolled choleric temperament, a sickness that erupts into brutal violence. Lavater’s theories of physiognomics play a role, too, as characters exhibit a scientific gaze focusi…
Art (4 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy (2 works)