TY - BOOK ID - 72092021 TI - Grillparzer's Libussa PY - 1999 SN - 0773518312 9786612857928 1282857924 0773567690 9780773567696 9780773518315 PB - Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Grillparzer, Franz KW - German literature. KW - Grillparzer, Franz, KW - German literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Young Germany UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:72092021 AB - Reeve not only offers a close textual analysis of the drama from the aspect of separation but shows how Libussa and its author fit into the development of the history of ideas in nineteenth-century Europe. He contends that Grillparzer's work reflects Bachofen, Neumann, Nietzsche, Freud, and Lacan. Using Freudian psychoanalysis, Neumann's investigation of the female archetype, and anthropological studies, Reeve argues that Grillparzer's tragedy portrays the struggle between matriarchy and patriarchy, nurturers and warriors, and rural and urban cultures. Since Libussa proves unable to overcome the gender bias of here male subjects, the play concludes with a symbolic statement of masculine superiority as man and woman remain intellectually and physically apart. Reeve's analysis draws parallels with Grillparzer's other two completed posthumous tragedies, Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg and Die Jüdin von Toledo, relating his findings to the greater context of nineteenth-century German drama. ER -