Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2063719907> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 76 of
76
with 100 items per page.
- W2063719907 endingPage "56" @default.
- W2063719907 startingPage "39" @default.
- W2063719907 abstract "Countermemory in Karoline von Günderrode’s “Darthula nach Ossian”:A Female Warrior, Her Unruly Breast, and the Construction of Her Myth Liesl Allingham Gestern las ich Ossians Darthula, und er wirkte so angenehm auf mich; der alte Wunsch, einen Heldentod zu sterben, ergriff mich mit großer Heftigkeit; unleidlich war es mir, noch zu leben, unleidlicher, ruhig und gemein zu sterben. Schon oft hatte ich den unweiblichen Wunsch, mich in ein wildes Schlachtengetümmel zu werfen, zu sterben. Warum ward ich kein Mann! Ich habe keinen Sinn für weibliche Tugenden, für Weiberglückseligkeit. Nur das Wilde, Große, Glänzende gefällt mir. Es ist ein unseliges, aber unverbesserliches Mißverhältnis in meiner Seele; und es wird und muß so bleiben, denn ich bin ein Weib und habe Begierden wie ein Mann, ohne Männerkraft. Darum bin ich so uneins mit mir.1 [Yesterday I read Ossian’s Darthula and it had such an agreeable effect on me; the old wish to die a heroic death seized me with great fierceness; it was insufferable to me to be alive still, more insufferable to die a quiet and mediocre death. I have often felt the unfeminine desire to throw myself into the wild throngs of a battle, to die. Why was I no man! I have no appreciation for feminine virtues, for woman’s happiness. Only the wild, the great, the glittering pleases me. There is an ill-fated but incorrigible misproportion in my soul: and it will and must remain this way, for I am a woman and have the desires of a man, without male strength. That is why I am so changeable and so divided in myself.2] In this quotation from a letter written to Gunda Brentano on August 29, 1801, Karoline von Günderrode takes Ossian as an inspiration for her wish to challenge a specific gendered boundary: the boundary excluding women from warfare and glory. The disjuncture between a masculine-gendered mind and a feminine body felt so keenly by Günderrode fuels her fascination and identification with Darthula, a princess turned cross-dressed warrior who dies on the battlefield. Through the many female warriors that Günderrode creates or adapts in her work, she explores what Patricia Simpson terms a “female imaginary identity.”3 The battlefield functions as an imaginary space to transcend gender difference, allowing women to claim and exercise otherwise traditionally masculine emotions like pride, anger, patriotism, courage, [End Page 39] and hatred, a space where notions like heroism can be detached from gender (Simpson 106). Or, as Helene Watanabe-O’Kelly states, it allows women to “imagine a space for themselves in which they can think the unthinkable.”4 As an imaginary space, at least for female warriors, the battlefield has the potential to overcome the disjuncture between masculine desires and the feminine body. Despite, or perhaps because of, Günderrode’s frustration with gendered boundaries, in her 1804 epic poem “Darthula nach Ossian,” the potentially liberating space of the battlefield does not enable a reconciliation of a “masculine” mind and a “feminine” body; it does not erase gendered boundaries.5 This, however, does not mean that the poem replicates the solidifying notions of gender complementarity that were so pervasive around 1800; as Elisabeth Krimmer states, it does not “construe men and women as polar opposites” (Krimmer 137). In one of the few critical analyses of the poem, Krimmer argues that Günderrode exposes the unreliability of traditional gendered signs and, moreover, that the body becomes an arbitrary sign (Krimmer 137 and 34). If the poem “Darthula nach Ossian” appropriates the female warrior to explore alternative feminine identities and challenge gendered signs, it does so through the lens of memory. Paul Connerton argues that bodily habits and commemorative ceremonies are the two primary practices that establish and transfer social or cultural memory.6 Both come into play in Günderrode’s poem. In the first sections of this article, I investigate the body and bodily practices, extending Krimmer’s argument to look more closely at how the cross-dressed warrior Darthula defies the notion of the body as a site of “identic intelligibility,” to borrow Elaine Ginsberg..." @default.
- W2063719907 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W2063719907 creator A5080714103 @default.
- W2063719907 date "2014-01-01" @default.
- W2063719907 modified "2023-10-17" @default.
- W2063719907 title "Countermemory in Karoline von Günderrode’s “Darthula nach Ossian”: A Female Warrior, Her Unruly Breast, and the Construction of Her Myth" @default.
- W2063719907 cites W1578911511 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W1605576571 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W1970612483 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W1999582886 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W2002834444 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W2026406546 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W2043488627 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W2085327766 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W2475439915 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W2604240098 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W2954194630 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W3147755707 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W578506710 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W601258264 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W607904897 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W607942727 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W619975140 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W631295581 @default.
- W2063719907 cites W655467111 @default.
- W2063719907 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2014.0006" @default.
- W2063719907 hasPublicationYear "2014" @default.
- W2063719907 type Work @default.
- W2063719907 sameAs 2063719907 @default.
- W2063719907 citedByCount "3" @default.
- W2063719907 countsByYear W20637199072017 @default.
- W2063719907 countsByYear W20637199072020 @default.
- W2063719907 countsByYear W20637199072023 @default.
- W2063719907 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W2063719907 hasAuthorship W2063719907A5080714103 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C15708023 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C195244886 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C27206212 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C2778627824 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C2779912346 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C2780822299 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C519517224 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C138885662 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C142362112 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C15708023 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C195244886 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C27206212 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C2778627824 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C2779912346 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C2780822299 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C519517224 @default.
- W2063719907 hasConceptScore W2063719907C95457728 @default.
- W2063719907 hasIssue "1" @default.
- W2063719907 hasLocation W20637199071 @default.
- W2063719907 hasOpenAccess W2063719907 @default.
- W2063719907 hasPrimaryLocation W20637199071 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W2405804520 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W2484318518 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W2511058698 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W2748952813 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W2890497706 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W2899084033 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W2905528341 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W4206979842 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W4312789122 @default.
- W2063719907 hasRelatedWork W4313122548 @default.
- W2063719907 hasVolume "21" @default.
- W2063719907 isParatext "false" @default.
- W2063719907 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W2063719907 magId "2063719907" @default.
- W2063719907 workType "article" @default.