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The Role of the Woman in the Works of Georg Kaiser

Myrna Williams

出版	University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1965
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GtMyHAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The newly~found freedom of the woman in the twentieth century is perhaps most obvious from a sociological standpoint. Her position within a literary framework, however, also reflects her status, even if the literature is considerably removed from sociological reality. In other words, she indicates this change even as a dramatic type, as the discussion here of her role in the plays of Georg Kaiser attempts to show. Kaiser's Impersonal portrayal of his characters demands, in fact, such an interpretation of function. These functions of character displayed by the woman compose the four chapters of this thesis; two have been further subclassified, making a total of six specific categories. I have chosen twelve dramas tolillustrate the different facets of her nature, varying from one to four examples per classification The conclusion presents a heroine who Incorporates all of the single roles in her total personality. With this combination of roles I hope not to neutralize her functional qualities but to show that Kaiser accords her unlimited possibilities for expression. By virtue of this freedom she asserts as well as symbolizes an emancipation on an absolute level. The method of the thesis is deductive. The categories are at the same time observations and conclusions derived from a thorough examination of the texts. Since there is no external point of reference the pivot- point of this study has been contrast; that is, the female figures in comparison with the masculine ones or with one another.