LEADER 03964cam a22005657i 4500001 99123280533506421 005 20211113213022.0 006 m#####o##d######## 007 cr#mn######a#a 008 201210t20212021nyua ob 001 0 eng^^ 010 2020055165 020 1800100345 |qelectronic book 020 1800100418 |qelectronic book 020 9781800100343 |q(electronic bk.) 020 9781800100411 |qelectronic book 020 |z9781640140868 |qhardcover 035 (OCoLC)1226798401 035 (OCoLC)on1226798401 035 |z(NjP)Voyager12328053 040 DLC |beng |erda |epn |cDLC |dOCLCO |dYDX |dJSTOR |dN$T |dYDX |dOCLCO |dN$T |dOCLCF |dWAU |dCAMBR |dK6U 042 pcc 043 e-gx--- 050 4 PN2642.W65 |bJ33 2021 099 Electronic Resource 100 1 Jackson, S. E. |q(Sara E.), |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020069053 245 14 The Problem Of The Actress In Modern German Theater And Thought / |cS. E. Jackson. 264 1 Rochester, New York : |bCamden House, |c2021. 264 4 |c©2021 300 1 online resource. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 347 data file |2rda 490 1 Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "Around 1900, German and Austrian actresses had allure and status, apparent autonomy, and unconventional lifestyles. They presented a complex problem socially and aesthetically, one tied to the so-called Woman Question and to the contested status of modernity. For modernists, the actress's socioeconomic mobility and defiance of gender norms opened space to contest social and moral strictures, and her mutability offered a means to experiment with identity. For conservatives, on the other hand, female performance could support antifeminist convictions and validate masculine authority by positing woman as nothing but a false surface shaped by productive male forces. Influential male-authored texts from the period thereby disavowed female subjectivity per se by equating "woman" and "actress." S. E. Jackson establishes the actress as a key figure in a discursive matrix surrounding modernity, gender, and subjectivity. Her central argument is that because the figure of the actress bridged such varied fields of thought, women who were actresses had a consequential impact that resonated in and far beyond the theater - but has not been explored. Examining archival sources such as theater reviews and writing by actresses in direct relation to canonical aesthetic and philosophical texts, The Problem of the Actress reconstructs the constitutive role that women played on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought"-- |cProvided by publisher. 588 Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2020). 650 0 Women in the theater |zGermany |xHistory |y19th century. 650 0 Women in the theater |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Actresses |zGermany. 650 0 Theater and society |zGermany |xHistory |y19th century. 650 0 Theater and society |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 650 7 Actresses. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00796328 650 7 Theater and society. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01149315 650 7 Women in the theater. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01178050 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 648 7 1800-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iPrint version:Jackson, S. E. (Sara E.). |tProblem of the actress in modern German theater and thought. |dRochester, New York : Camden House, 2021 |z9781640140868 |w(DLC) 2020055164 830 0 Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture