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Maurer, Karl-Heinz.

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From family to society: Nature, reflection, and dramatic form in G. E. Lessing and J. M. R. Lenz.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From family to society: Nature, reflection, and dramatic form in G. E. Lessing and J. M. R. Lenz./
Author:	Maurer, Karl-Heinz.
Description:	185 p.
Notes:	Adviser: William Rasch.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Germanic. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3054453
ISBN:	0493698396

From family to society: Nature, reflection, and dramatic form in G. E. Lessing and J. M. R. Lenz.
Maurer, Karl-Heinz.

From family to society: Nature, reflection, and dramatic form in G. E. Lessing and J. M. R. Lenz. - 185 p.

Adviser: William Rasch.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2002.

The dissertation relates J. M. R. Lenz's major plays to G. E. Lessing's dramaturgy and his plays of the 1770s. The main thesis is that Lessing revealed a paradoxical trait in the universalist claims of the Enlightenment, namely that their self-reflection leads to their dissolution. In Lenz, this self-reflection becomes a tool for the critique of the Enlightenment drama.

ISBN: 0493698396Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019072
Literature, Germanic.

From family to society: Nature, reflection, and dramatic form in G. E. Lessing and J. M. R. Lenz.
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520 $a The dissertation relates J. M. R. Lenz's major plays to G. E. Lessing's dramaturgy and his plays of the 1770s. The main thesis is that Lessing revealed a paradoxical trait in the universalist claims of the Enlightenment, namely that their self-reflection leads to their dissolution. In Lenz, this self-reflection becomes a tool for the critique of the Enlightenment drama.
520 $a The first chapter investigates the function of pity in the <italic>Hamburgische Dramaturgie</italic>, in which pity emerges as constitutive of tragedy. In this text, pity is a medium for the transference of other emotions while also being an emotion itself. Thus, there is a potential for self-reflection, against which Lessing warns as undermining the genre of tragedy.
520 $a The second chapter reads <italic>Emilia Galotti</italic> as the dramatic performance of pity's self-reflection. As a medium for other emotions, and for the emotions of other's, pity itself accounts for Emilia's impressionable character, her very fear of seduction. Once the heroine realizes this dialectic, she has to distance herself from the affective economy of pity. Thus, her moral freedom is possible only outside of the signifying economy of tragedy, which reaches its own inner limit in <italic>Emilia Galotti</italic>.
520 $a The third chapter analyzes Lenz's <italic>Der neue Menoza</italic> as a parody of the rationalization of nature. In this play, an enlightened clergyman refutes the incest taboo as historically contingent, and legitimates a marriage between siblings. While Lessing's <italic>Nathan der Weise</italic> insists that the Enlightenment in its guise as adoption rivals natural procreation in the constitution of the family, in <italic>Menoza</italic> the Enlightenment cancels out nature. Consequently, the project of illumination can no longer set itself apart from nature as its opposite, and therefore regresses into myth; it becomes Oedipal.
520 $a The fourth chapter extrapolates a semiotics from Lenz's <italic>Menoza </italic> and <italic>Der Hofmeister</italic> that is levered against the ideology of self-transparency. Lenz's plays draw on the dilemma of the Enlightenment uncovered by Lessing, and purposefully produce blind spots in the Enlightenment ‘world family,’ through which society enters as that which cannot be conceptualized completely.
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