Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1914Stanford University Press, 1995 - 390 pages The socio-history of German bourgeois literature from 1970 to 1914, traces the sociogenesis of bourgeois divided subjectivity by examining the dialectic of utopian contestation and ideological legitimation in six canonical literary texts: Lessing's Emilia Galotti, Schiller's The Robbers, Heine's Ideas - The Book Le Grand, Buchner's Woyzech, Hofmannsthal's Tale of the Cavalry, and Kafka's The Judgement. Gray asserts that the emancipatory struggle of middle-class literati in Germany was directed not so much against an external class oppressor as it was against the intra-ideological coercion inherent in bourgeois socio-political and economic practice. The book's thesis is that aesthetic innovation in German bourgeois literature was shaped by the simultaneous accommodation with adn rebellion against bourgeois instrumentalized reason on the part of the literary intelligentsia. |
Contents
Introduction Toward a Sociosemiotic Literary Practice I | 1 |
One Divided Subjectivity and the Internal Dialectic | 19 |
Conflict of Representations and | 45 |
Semiotic Conflict Hermeneutical | 102 |
Literature as Therapy for Divided Subjects | 149 |
Carnivalization | 196 |
The Return of the Political Repressed and the Aporia of | 228 |
Freuds | 235 |
in Kafkas The Judgment | 269 |
Concluding Historical Postscript The Sociogenesis of Bourgeois | 317 |
Notes | 329 |
| 345 | |
| 375 | |
Common terms and phrases
abstract Adorno aesthetic artistic attempt autonomous Book Le Grand bour bourgeois literature bourgeois subject bourgeois tragedy Büchner character Clarus Clarus's Claudia conception concrete conflict constitution Conti critical critique dialectic Dialectic of Enlightenment discourse divided subject doppelgänger drama economic Emilia Galotti enlightenment exchange exoteric exploits expression father Franz Franz Kafka Freud function geois Georg Georg Büchner German bourgeois Hegel heimlich Heine Heine's Heinrich Heine hermeneutical historical Hofmannsthal's Horkheimer human ideal Ideas ideological individual interpretive Judgment Kafka Karl Karl's language Lerch's Lessing's life-world literary literary-aesthetic manifest Marinelli mimetic naive narrative natural signs Odoardo Orsina Peter Bürger play political portrait potential practice Prince principles psychic public sphere rationality reason reception reflects relationship representation represents revolutionary Robbers scene Schiller semiosis semiotic signifying social socioeconomic sociopolitical strategy structures Sturm und Drang superego symbolic Tale textual theory tion tragedy ultimately uncanny unconscious Unhappy Consciousness unheimlich utopian words Woyzeck writing