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Federfuchser/Penpusher from Lessing to Grillparzer: A Study Focused on Grillparzer's Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg

By William C. Reeve

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780773565357
DOI
10.1515/9780773565357
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9530063 bytes)
Pages
184\178
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 18:29:49

Description

Concentrating on Klesel's role in Franz Grillparzer's Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg, William Reeve argues that Klesel represents the culmination of a literary type - the Federfuchser, or pen-pushing secretary. Evolving out of the political and social conditions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the secretary is an intellectually gifted individual who acts as the agent of a less-gifted, usually aristocratic, patron. In the secretary's hand, the pen proves mightier than the sword.

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