Intertextuality as Power
Rosa Mayreder's Response to Goethe's Faust and the Cult of Male Genius
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22346112 |
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| Authors | Ruxandra Looft (0000-0002-8825-1925, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 73-87 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Austrian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-669X • E-ISSN: 2327-1809 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/oas.2018.0022 |
| OpenAlex | W2888808477 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This article positions Rosa Mayreder's Faustian tale Anda Renata, ein Mysterium in zwei Teilen und zwölf Bildern within a canon of female Faust narratives and explores what it means for a nineteenth- century female writer to "write back" to one of Germany's most revered and widely read authors, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I argue that Mayreder employs intertextuality as a strategic tool of resistance while writing and operating within a male- dominated literary landscape that relegates women's writings to the periphery. Using Stephanie Hilger and Audre Lorde to frame my theoretical arguments, I explore how Mayreder "writes back" to the male- dominated canon and how her work fits into feminist narratives from the early nineteenThcentury through today
Art · Art history · Comics · Cult · FAUST · Genius · Intertextuality · Literature · Narrative · Physics · Theology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · German Literature and Culture Studies · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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