Published: 2018-12-27

Undines and Melusines in Contemporary German Women’s Literature (Bachman, Neuwirth, Fischmuth)

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Abstract

The article is an attempt at a gender reading of the motif of undine and melusine in three texts by contemporary Austrian writers: Ingeborg Bachmann (Undine Goes), Barbara Neuwirth (Nimm diese Rosen, Schöne) and Barbara Frischmuth (Otter). In the introduction, the author describes the mythological and literary context in which this motif functions, and then places the analyses of the above mentioned works against this background. Another important issue is the question of the feminist progressiveness of the texts under examination: basing on the assumption that Bachmann’s work is characterised by (pre)feminist thinking, the author places in its context the texts by Neuwirth and Frischmuth, written several decades later.

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Nowara-Matusik, N. (2018). Undines and Melusines in Contemporary German Women’s Literature (Bachman, Neuwirth, Fischmuth). Wortfolge. Szyk Słów, (2), 9–29. https://doi.org/10.31261/WSS.2018.02.01

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Published: 2020-10-14


eISSN: 2544-4093
Ikona DOI 10.321261/WSS

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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