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Speaking Names and Empty Domains. Effi Briest and the ‘Awful Being’.

    Patricia Howe

Sprachkunst Jahrgang XLIX/2018, 2. Halbband, pp. 31-46, 2019/09/16

Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
Jahrgang XLIX/2018, 2. Halbband

doi: 10.1553/spk49_2s31

doi: 10.1553/spk49_2s31


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doi:10.1553/spk49_2s31



doi:10.1553/spk49_2s31

Abstract

This essay traces the depiction of the ideal bridegroom in fairy tales, eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury novels and memoirs, and its effect on Effi’s sense of identity and marriage to Innstetten. There follows a brief analysis of Innstetten’s own identity crisis. The conclusion considers the function of empty domains in the portrayal of social roles and constraints, and their effect on text and reader.