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- Title
Women's Concerns -- Women's Popular Drama? Veza Canetti and Marieluise Fleiβer.
- Authors
Lorenz, Dagmar C. C.
- Abstract
The article presents information on works of women dramatists. The dramatic works important authors such as Else Lasker-Schüler and Marieluise Fleiβer have often been neglected. Veza Canetti is recently being rediscovered because of Elias Canetti's initiative to publish her works which appeared in newspapers and anthologies in 1930s. Because of their intended didactic message and popular appeal, Fleiβer and Canetti carried out modernist dramatic techniques only to a limited degree. Their characters and the dramatic conflict are easily accessible. The female protagonists takes into consideration the empathy and identification on the part of the audience. The two forms of drama, referred to as Volksstücke, depend on similar dramatic settings, characters, and themes. The both dramas address a mass audience. In addition, they suggest a diametrically opposed concept of the Volk or the masses, of their interests, capacities, and potential. Conservative Volksstück writers promoted the repressive, anti-sensual values of the lower-middle-class nuclear family.
- Subjects
WOMEN dramatists; FLEISSER, Marieluise, 1901-1974; CANETTI, Veza; NUCLEAR families; MASS media; ANTHOLOGY television programs; MIDDLE class; AUTHORS &; theater; SENSUALITY in art
- Publication
Modern Austrian Literature, 1993, Vol 26, Issue 3/4, p115
- ISSN
0026-7503
- Publication type
Article