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The writer and intellectual Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) fascinates scholars of German literature because of her associations with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud and because she was active in the cultural and intellectual vanguard of late 19th- and early 20th-century Germany and Austria. Recent editions of her fictional works have garnered wider attention from scholars of literature and theory, particularly those interested in women's studies, identity politics, and narrative theory. This study analyzes how Andreas-Salomé depicted women in her fictional works just as feminism was emerging, revealing a complex engagement with questions of narrative and identity. More than mere thematic explorations of women's changing roles in society, her works investigate the concept of identity and its relationship to gender, sexuality, and narrative representation. She is as concerned with a cultural crisis of femininity and masculinity as with the identity crises of her individual women characters. This book offers the best account of Andreas-Salomé's literary works, de-emphasizing biographical and psychoanalytical perspectives but taking into account the sociopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts in which they were written. It also adds to contemporary theoretical discourses on gender, feminism, and identity. Muriel Cormican is professor of German at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia.

Women in literature. --- Women --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Female identity --- Feminine identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Identity. --- Andreas-Salomé, Lou, --- Salomé, Lou, --- Salomé, Louise von, --- Salomé, Lou Andreas-, --- Salomé, Lou von, --- Von Salomé, Louise, --- Andréa Salomé, Lou, --- Саломе, Лу, --- Salome, Lu, --- Lou, Henri, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Andreas-Salome, Lou,

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"The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves contemplation and the operation of power, has an extensive history of iterations such as the male gaze (Mulvey), the oppositional gaze (hooks), and the post-colonial gaze (Said). This essay collection develops a supplemental theory of what Muriel Cormican has coined the "tender gaze" and traces its occurrence in German film, theater, and literature. More than qualifying the primarily voyeuristic, narcissistic, and sexist impetus of the male gaze, the tender gaze also allows for a differentiated understanding of the role identification plays in reception, and it highlights various means of eliciting a sociopolitical critique in works of art. Emphasizing the humanizing potential of the tender gaze, the contributors argue that far from simply exciting emotional contagion, affect in art promotes an altruistic, rational, and fundamentally ethical relationship to the other. The tender gaze elucidates how perspective-taking operates in art to foster empathy and prosocial behaviors. Though the contributors identify instances of the tender gaze in artistic production since the early nineteenth century, they focus on its pervasiveness in contemporary works, corresponding to twenty-first-century concerns with implicit bias and racism"--

Affect (Psychology) in literature. --- Affect (Psychology) in motion pictures. --- Arts and society --- History --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Motion pictures --- Social aspects --- Art Analysis. --- Art and Emotion. --- Compassionate Encounters. --- Contemporary Art. --- Empathy. --- German Literature. --- German Screen. --- German Theater. --- Humanizing Potential. --- Perspective-Taking. --- Prosocial Behaviors. --- Sociopolitical Critique. --- Tender Gaze. --- Gaze in art.

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Affective and dynamic functions --- Germany