Les Marginaux: Femmes, Juifs Et Homosexuels Dans La Littérature Européenne

by Hans Mayer

This book brings together recent essays by the highly regarded German literary critic, Hans Mayer. They are studies in alienation organized into three main types of outsiders--women, homosexuals, and Jews--as depicted in literature from Shakespeare and Marlowe to the present.

The women in Outsiders are Joan of Arc (as presented by Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, and Vishnevskii), Judith and Delilah (as heroine and vamp), George Eliot and George Sand, Lulu, and contemporary feminists. The homosexuals include protagonists of Marlowe's plays, Winckelmann, Platen, Verlaine and Rimbaud, Ludwig of Bavaria, Tchaikovsky, and the personas of Wilde, Gide, and Genet as seen in their lives and in their novels. The Jews range beyond stereotype from Shylock to Disraeli, the Rothschilds, Heine, Proust's Bloch and Joyce's Bloom, and Trotsky.

Hans Mayer, Professor of German at the University of Tübingen, has also published major studies of Bochner, Wagner, Thomas Mann, Hesse, and Brecht. The English translation of Outsiders includes a new preface by the author and a foreword by Ihab Hassan.

Genres: Nonfiction, Queer, LGBT

535 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Hans Mayer (1907 - 2001) was a German literary scholar. Mayer was also a jurist and social researcher and was internationally recognized as a critic, author and musicologist.

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[Nat Shirman · Rating 4 out of 5]

(In Originalsprache deutsch gelesen)