"Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift": la specularità del doppio come paradigma dell’identità

This paper aims to rediscover a masterpiece of the Exilliteratur, which for too long was the object of intermittent research, mostly in German-speaking countries, while in Italy it still remains almost unstudied. In Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift (1941), Franz Werfel ironically portrays a double ide...

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Main Author: Stefania Acciaioli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2020-12-01
Series:LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/12417
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spelling doaj-f100436855f84184b7f1d2abd8ef3c5f2021-02-03T08:58:44ZengFirenze University PressLEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente1824-484X2020-12-019910.13128/lea-1824-484x-12417"Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift": la specularità del doppio come paradigma dell’identitàStefania Acciaioli This paper aims to rediscover a masterpiece of the Exilliteratur, which for too long was the object of intermittent research, mostly in German-speaking countries, while in Italy it still remains almost unstudied. In Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift (1941), Franz Werfel ironically portrays a double identity crisis: at an individual level, this arises from a confrontation with female otherness, and at the national one, it develops from the Austrian situation prior to German annexation. In doing so, he uses mirroring Leitmotifs at different levels of a text with a very complex structure. https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/12417identity, mirroring, the double, the other, the repressed
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"Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift": la specularità del doppio come paradigma dell’identità
LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente
identity, mirroring, the double, the other, the repressed
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title "Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift": la specularità del doppio come paradigma dell’identità
title_short "Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift": la specularità del doppio come paradigma dell’identità
title_full "Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift": la specularità del doppio come paradigma dell’identità
title_fullStr "Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift": la specularità del doppio come paradigma dell’identità
title_full_unstemmed "Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift": la specularità del doppio come paradigma dell’identità
title_sort "eine blassblaue frauenschrift": la specularità del doppio come paradigma dell’identità
publisher Firenze University Press
series LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente
issn 1824-484X
publishDate 2020-12-01
description This paper aims to rediscover a masterpiece of the Exilliteratur, which for too long was the object of intermittent research, mostly in German-speaking countries, while in Italy it still remains almost unstudied. In Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift (1941), Franz Werfel ironically portrays a double identity crisis: at an individual level, this arises from a confrontation with female otherness, and at the national one, it develops from the Austrian situation prior to German annexation. In doing so, he uses mirroring Leitmotifs at different levels of a text with a very complex structure.
topic identity, mirroring, the double, the other, the repressed
url https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/12417
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