Fournier Kiss, Corinne (2013). Motifs slaves dans les lettres autrichiennes du XIXe siècle: tentative de compréhension et de synthèse dans le cas de Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. In: Mihaila, Ramona (ed.) Transnational Identities of Women writers in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (pp. 102-116). New York: Addleton Academic Publishers
Full text not available from this repository.Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) was born and grew up in Moravia. Despite the fact that her very first language was Czech, all her literary work was written in German ; despite of her Czech origins from her fatherside, all the references to be found in her work concerning the social and national development of the Czech society of that time express, if not animosity, at least a total lack of understanding. Everthing happens as if the author just wanted to confirm and uphold the official views of the Austrian Monarchy.
In this article, I’d like to show, mainly on the example of the novel Božena (1876), that a more careful reading which would take into account not only the textual statements of the writer, but as well the composition of the plot and the various behaviors of the Czech and German protagonists, could allow to bring nuances to Ebner-Eschenbach’s position towards the Czech – namely to see that she was perfectly aware and respectful of the cultural diversity and complexity of the Czech lands and that she felt a deep compassion for the claims of the minorities asking for the transformation of the Habsburg Empire into a Federation of free nations.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of French Language and Literature |
UniBE Contributor: |
Fournier Kiss, Corinne |
Subjects: |
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 840 French & related literatures 400 Language > 440 French & related languages |
ISBN: |
978-1-9354-9457-7 |
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Addleton Academic Publishers |
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French |
Submitter: |
Corinne Ingrid Fournier Kiss |
Date Deposited: |
10 Jul 2014 09:20 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:35 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/53622 |
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