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Modes of Performance

其他書名	Women's Musico-literary Masquerade in Early Nineteenth-century Germany
出版	University of Pennsylvania, 1997
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GoopPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This dissertation examines the literary and musical production of three nineteenth-century German women, all of whom wrote literature (letters, diaries, novels, travel journals, poetry) and composed Lieder. While the realm of the Lied can be viewed as an area to which women have been assigned, or to which they retreated as part of the private, "semi-public" sphere, it is also possible to view it in opposite terms; as women's entry into the male realm of literature and music, and as a method of actively staging a certain interpretation of the Lied as feminine, in order to take away the threat women's ingression symbolized. This notion, central to my work, necessitates a rethinking of the meaning of the terms "women" and "feminine." In doing so I rely on literary criticism and psychoanalytic studies in order to redevelop the notion of performance. The phenomenon of masquerade, as theorized by psychoanalyst Joan Riviere, and literary critic Judith Butler's work on gender instability together reveal a close relationship between performance and gender that speaks against essentialist theories of sexual identity. While it does not necessarily imply an anti-essentialist viewpoint, I also call upon Marjorie Garber's exploration of the cross-dressing phenomenon in discussing gender's significance for the artistic production of the following women.