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Ehrhardt, Holger. "Mythologische Subtexte in Theodor Fontanes Effi Briest." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2006. http://d-nb.info/98655703X/04.
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Schlarb, Hans-Michael. "Angstmechanismen. Sozialpsychologische und politische Faktoren in Effi Briest." School of Letters, Nagoya University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/12955.
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Boberg, Maria. "Eine Untersuchung der Geschlechtsrollen in Theodor Fontanes Effi Briest." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Tyska, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-11736.
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Harström, Kari. "Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest : Eine Suche nach den Gründen ihres Untergangs." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Baltic Languages, Finnish and German, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8040.
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Olsson, Berggren Mikael. "„Wir Männer sind alle Egoisten" : Darstellung männlichen Verhaltens in Theodor Fontanes Effi Briest." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-33051.
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The aim of this essay is to analyze the behavior of characters chosen fromTheodor Fontane’s novel, Effi Briest. In this study the chosen male charactersare being put under the scope in order to investigate to what extent theirbehavior correspond with expected male behavior, supported by theoreticallyconstructed male imperatives. It is stressed throughout the essay that genderand society have an influence on the characters’ decision making andbehavior.
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Zalesky, Bodil. "Erzählverhalten und narrative Sprechweisen : narratologische Untersuchung von "Effi Briest" mit Schwerpunkt in den Dialogen /." Uppsala : Uppsala Universitet, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40051784j.
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Nelson, Ronald Kent. "Theodor Fontanes Darstellung der Berliner Gesellschaft in seinen Romanen Effi Briest und Irrungen Wirrungen." PDXScholar, 1988. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3857.
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Källström, Sofia. "Das Eigentliche bleibt doch zurück : zum Problem der semantischen Unbestimmtheit am Beispiel von Theodor Fontanes Effi Briest /." Uppsala : Uppsala Universitet, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41042292z.
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Landshoff, Fritz H. [Verfasser], Franz [Akademischer Betreuer] Schultz, and Franz [Gutachter] Schultz. "Theodor Fontanes "Effi Briest", die Kunstform eines Romans / Fritz H. Landshoff ; Gutachter: Franz Schultz ; Betreuer: Franz Schultz." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1207882100/34.
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Voetelink, Herman Mari. "Effi Briest, eine deutsche Emma Bovary? ein leserbezogener, text- und strukturanalytischer Vergleich der Romandarstellungen bei Gustave Flaubert und Theodor Fontane /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2001. http://dare.uva.nl/document/84878.
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Schoofs, Christa. "Narration textuelle et narration filmique : les choix de l'adaptation cinématographique chez Schlöndorff et Fassbinder, étude de Homo Faber et de Fontane Effi Briest." Grenoble 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000GRE39002.
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La mise en relation des specificites de la narration textuelle et de la narration filmique est exploree a partir d'un corpus compose des romans homo faber de max frisch et effi briest de theodor fontane et de leurs adaptations cinematographiques par volker schlondorff (homo faber, 1991) et par rainer werner fassbinder (fontane effi briest, 1972/74). Aux strategies narratives de frisch et de fontane, schlondorff et fassbinder repondent par des demarches cinematographiques qui different et dans la conception de l'adaptation et dans les procedes narratifs mis en oeuvre. Delaissant la structure narrative complexe du roman, schlondorff s'en tient a une transposition evenementielle et quasiment lineaire qui gomme la dimension introspective du personnage de faber et deplace l'interet narratif durecit. L'adaptation se reduit ici a un simple probleme de transcription mimetique. A l'inverse de schlondorff qui ne propose du roman qu'une illustration de son histoire, fassbinder fait une vraie lecture filmique du roman de fontane. Les moyens du cinema sont mis a la disposition d'une esthetique qui etablit un rapport complexe et signifiant entre texte et mise en image et incite le spectateur areflechir sur le monde qui lui est presente. La fidelite apparente d'un schlondorff ne conduit pas pour autant a une proximite etroite avec l'oeuvre originale. Bien au contraire, le cineaste qui traduit le mieux la strategie narrative et l'esprit du roman est celui qui s'ecarte le plus de la tentation de l'effet de reel.
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Sun, Yu-der. "La révolution intérieure : la femme adultère dans les littératures chinoise (Pan Jinlian) et occidentale (Emma Bovary, Anna Karenine, Effi Briest et Edna Pontellier)." Limoges, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LIMO2011.
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Cette these propose une nouvelle interpretation de la condition de la femme adultere dans cinq chefs-d'oeuvre de la litterature mondiale. Il s'agit de cinq heroines adulteres, la chinoise pan jinlian dans jin ping mei (1610, fleur en fiole d'or} d'un auteur anonyme, la francaise emma bovary dans madame bovary de gustave flaubert (1857), la russe anna karenine dans anna karenine de leon tolstoi (1877), l'allemande effi briest dans effi briest de theodor fontane (1896) et l'americaine edna pontellier dans the awakening de kate chopin (1899). Cette recherche s'etablir sur l'assertion que l'ignorance et le mariage a l'aveulette alterent l'identite de nos cinq heroines, et l'adultere est un mouvement en reaction. La problematique de l'adultere nous permet non seulement de determiner le processus de liberation-destruction de cinq heroines, mais aussi de confronter deux grandes civilisations distantes l'une de l'autre : le confucianisme et le christianisme, notamment dans le contexte de la chine du xvie siecle et de l'occident du xixe siecle. Le roman realiste, sorte de repertoire sociologique, permet d'observer les prises de positions sociales et intellectuelles de nos cinq heroines dans des univers culturels bien differents. Il s'agira de les caracteriser dans leurs fondements culturels, le sens moral, le concept d'amour et de mariage, ainsi que dans le sens de la vie et de la mort entre la chine et l'occident. Afin de determiner le processus de liberation-destruction que suivent les cinq heroines adulteres, cette recherche se divisera en cinq parties d'apres une methode narratologique. Par l'intermediaire de certaines theories psychologiques telle que l'apprentissage social de maslow, ces cinq parties, comme cinq processus, seront l'etat initial, la force perturbatrice, la dynamique de l'action, la force equilibrante et l'etat final, incarnees dans cette etude dans l'origine familiale, le mariage a l'aveuglette, le jardin secret, v amour decu et v issue fatale. Plus lemariage bat de l'aile, plus elles s'acharnent dans leur quete de liberte et de felicite dans l'amour extraconjugal. Si passionnantes et pathetiques que fussent ces cinq femmes, nees pour l'amour, mortes de l'adultere, se defendant de la morale patriarcale, elles representent l'archetype de l'eros-thanatos dans la litterature realiste, ainsi qu'une revolution manquee.
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Petereit, Elisabeth. "Beunruhigungen vom Rand ˸ Weiblichkeit, Phantastisches und Ornament in der Literatur des deutschsprachigen Realismus (Keller, Storm, Fontane)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030054.
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Cette thèse propose une lecture de textes canoniques du réalisme germanophone selon le prisme des inquiétudes que provoquent les éléments placés à la marge : le féminin, le fantastique et l’ornement. La base commune qui permet de relier ces catégories esthétiques, anthropologiques et sociales est qu’elles se définissent en tant qu’Autre dans une bipolarité : homme – femme, réel – fantastique, ›grand‹ art – ornement. La hiérarchie qui sous-tend ces oppositions s’avère néanmoins peu stable, de telle sorte que ces éléments marginalisés troublent le centre normatif. Le fantastique est abordé comme élément constitutif pour la mise en forme littéraire de problèmes sociaux actuels et ›réels‹, et les rapports entre les sexes tels que définis par la société bourgeoise, sont montrés comme mis en mouvement et ambivalents. L’analyse détaillée des textes de Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller et Theodor Storm se concentre d’abord sur la femme comme ›principe esthétique‹ et comme ›genre‹, capté et fixé dans l’image, et montre que ce féminin imagé et idéalisé se convertit au contraire en déclencheur d’une imagination débridée et déréglée, qui s’inspire de sources littéraires et mythologiques (Pénélope, Cendrillon, sorcières etc.). Elle s’attache ensuite aux modèles, aux rôles et aux normes liés au mariage bourgeois et aux enjeux qu’ils constituent pour l’acceptation ou le rejet de la femme comme égale. La troisième partie étudie enfin les rapports entre l’idéal familial bourgeois et la société patriarcale. Dans les romans le mariage bourgeois est hanté par les fantômes de rôles sexuels encore en vigueur, mais désormais obsolètes, ce qui confère aux foyers une inquiétante étrangeté au sens FreudienThis dissertation offers an analysis of canonical texts from German literary realism using the anxiety that is felt by readers and writers in what constitutes the margins of realist literature in the 19th century: the feminine, the fantastic and ornamentations.These aesthetic, anthropologic and social categories are linked as they are all defined by a binary opposition that turns them into the Other or the Inessential: male-female, reality-fantastic, art-ornamentation. The hierarchy upon which these oppositions are built is however not that stable as these elements at the margin do trouble and replace what constitutes the society’s normative core. The fantastic elements in the works of the authors are used as constituting materials to engage the literary discussion on present and real social problems at the time of writing. The relationships between the sexes and genders which were so clearly described in the bourgeois era are seen as ambivalent and in motion.The three parts of this dissertation provide an in-depth analysis of the works of Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller and Theodor Storm. The first section of the work will focus on the figure of the woman as an aesthetic which is both captured and fixed in the image. It will show that this idealised and pictured feminine becomes the catalyst for unbridled and unruly imagination. Then, the traditional roles and behaviours within patriarchal marriage will then be shown to be largely inspired by literary tradition, and in particular in the myths and the fairy-tale (Penelope, Cinderella, the Witch, etc.). Lastly, the relationships between the ideal bourgeois family and the patriarchal family will be analysed in the work of Fontane and Storm. As the era of German realist literature ended, patriarchal marriage was haunted by the ghosts of gender roles, which however obsolete, were still predominant. This paradox made families unheimlich in the Freudian sense
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Taylor, Nadine. "The creation of literary character in the fiction of Theodor Fontane." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:22d5d619-74e4-47d3-91c5-8f7236d1f25d.
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This thesis examines the creation of character in the work of Theodor Fontane. Although he is repeatedly praised as a great writer of human character, there is no comprehensive analysis of how Fontane's characters work. This thesis is intended to fill this surprising gap in Fontane research. Its analyses do not focus on the author-text interaction as many traditional critical approaches do, but instead look at what takes place between the text and the reader. The first section, entitled 'Character in Theory', has two chapters presenting my concept of literary character. It draws on the findings of cognitive studies, including formerly neglected aspects such as affective reading and empathy. The second section, 'Character in Practice', contains four chapters. Chapter three demonstrates how our emotions can contribute to our understanding and what role is played by empathy. Chapter four shows the active role readers are required to play when putting together information about characters in Fontane's polyphonous novels. Chapter five focuses on character speech, and chapter six asks to what extent Fontane's characters can be seen to develop. The third section, 'Character in Context', takes a less hermeneutic approach. Chapter seven asks what our expectations of Realist characters are and how these influence our reading of Fontane. Chapter eight examines how our access to these characters has changed compared to the author's contemporary readership. Chapter nine presents an excursus, looking at the author's development from renditions of 'real' people to fictional characters. The last section compares this author's creations to the tentatively Modernist characters of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. My findings show that Fontane's characters demand and support a more active reading than Realism is usually given credit for. They suggest that the concept of Realist characters as largely descriptive creations needs to be examined critically.
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Gluscevic, Zorana. "Justifying the margins: Marginal culture, hybridity and the Polish challenge in Fontane's “Effi Briest”." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3445159.
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This dissertation argues that the interpretive framework from which Fontane's Effi Briest is commonly approached limits discussion to metropolitan core culture and fails to address Fontane’s path-breaking accomplishment. After outlining limitations of some prominent approaches to Effi Briest in chapter one, my next four chapters explore alternative reading strategies that instead situate the novel in the imperial context of the new German state inflected by transnational relations and problematize the tendency to see Germany as a space territorially and culturally homogenized and stable. Chapter two reads the novel through Foucault’s notion of heterotopia to demonstrate Fontane’s heterotopic strategies as a counter-model to the monolithic mapping of novelistic space. In chapters three and four I use Bakhtin’s chronotopic strategies to show how Fontane “fuses together” fictional time and space into a productive force for depicting society in motion and change. I demonstrate how this “spatial turn” breaks with the traditional time-paradigm and opens up space for polyphony and dialogism. Chapter five discusses Fontane’s Wanderungen contrapuntally to draw attention to Fontane’s counter-strategies, which break with the master narrative in favor of small-scale ones, to show their relevance for Effi Briest. The rest of my dissertation focuses on the novel’s Eastern Pomeranian/Kessin-based chapters. Chapter six addresses the spatial arrangement of Hinterpommern from the viewpoint of the ruling elites. Chapter seven treats Kessin as a hybridized “third space” that both resists the dominant and represents an unstable and ambiguous alternative to paralyzing dichotomies of opposites. I also look into Hinterpommern as a contested space between Germans and Poles—and their competing claims over the Kasubians, inhabitants of the strategically important Baltic area. In chapter eight I show how the Polish margins impinge on Fontane’s fictional representation of Prussia and are articulated in both the content and structure of Effi Briest. In chapter nine I discuss Fontane’s representation of Polish/Slavic-hyphenated characters in terms of their different responses/resistance to anti-Slav/Polish prejudices and measures. In revealing the creative and transformative powers of margins this dissertation models alternative ways of approaching canonical writers and contributes to the transnationalization of German studies in particular and cultural studies in general.
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Gluscevic, Zorana. "Justifying the Margins: Marginal Culture, Hybridity and the Polish Challenge in Fontane's Effi Briest." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/335.
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This dissertation argues that the interpretive framework from which Fontane's Effi Briest is commonly approached limits discussion to metropolitan core culture and fails to address Fontane's path-breaking accomplishment. After outlining limitations of some prominent approaches to Effi Briest in chapter one, my next four chapters explore alternative reading strategies that instead situate the novel in the imperial context of the new German state inflected by transnational relations and problematize the tendency to see Germany as a space territorially and culturally homogenized and stable. Chapter two reads the novel through Foucault's notion of heterotopia to demonstrate Fontane's heterotopic strategies as a counter-model to the monolithic mapping of novelistic space. In chapters three and four I use Bakhtin's chronotopic strategies to show how Fontane "fuses together" fictional time and space into a productive force for depicting society in motion and change. I demonstrate how this "spatial turn" breaks with the traditional time-paradigm and opens up space for polyphony and dialogism. Chapter five discusses Fontane's Wanderungen contrapuntally to draw attention to Fontane's counter-strategies, which break with the master narrative in favor of small-scale ones, to show their relevance for Effi Briest. The rest of my dissertation focuses on the novel's Eastern Pomeranian/Kessin-based chapters. Chapter six addresses the spatial arrangement of Hinterpommern from the viewpoint of the ruling elites. Chapter seven treats Kessin as a hybridized "third space" that both resists the dominant and represents an unstable and ambiguous alternative to paralyzing dichotomies of opposites. I also look into Hinterpommern as a contested space between Germans and Poles - and their competing claims over the Kasubians, inhabitants of the strategically important Baltic area. In chapter eight I show how the Polish margins impinge on Fontane's fictional representation of Prussia and are articulated in both the content and structure of Effi Briest. In chapter nine I discuss Fontane's representation of Polish/Slavic-hyphenated characters in terms of their different responses/resistance to anti-Slav/Polish prejudices and measures. In revealing the creative and transformative powers of margins this dissertation models alternative ways of approaching canonical writers and contributes to the transnationalization of German studies in particular and cultural studies in general.
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Kehler, Barbara Gabriele. "Das Verhältnis von Mutter und Tochter in Theodor Fontanes Schach von Wuthenow und Effi Briest." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3175.
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Theodor Fontane’s famous novel Effi Briest (1895) has been widely discussed in secondary literature, and every single aspect of the novel’s complex content and style seems to have been analysed; however, the similarities in content and style between Fontane’s Effi Briest and his less known and discussed work Schach von Wuthenow (1882) have not yet been recognized. A remarkable and meaningful similarity between the two regarding the content is the portrayal of a close relationship between mother and daughter which is strongly influenced by the latter’s relation to the mother’s (former) admirer.
The relationship of Josephine von Carayon and her daughter Victoire and that of Luise von Briest and her daughter Effi will be compared by means of an analysis based on Michel Foucault’s theories on discourse, truth and power; in particular, the discourse of beauty, illness, honour and love will be closely examined. A method based on Foucault’s theories facilitates an analysis of the female protagonists’ actions that is free of moral implications for the protagonists are understood in their non-freedom of action owing to their discourse-constructed identity. Since the constellations of power in which the female protagonists are living cannot be analysed without the male protagonists’ influence, the constitution of Schach and Innstetten’s characters will be closely examined, too.
The analysis of the discourse of beauty and illness shows that those disourses are portrayed as inseparably connected. In the society outlined by Fontane in Schach von Wuthenow, Victoire is made an outsider due to the pockmarks in her face; during the private conversation at Prince Louis’ castle, however, the prince calls Victoire a beauté du diable whose beauty is based on the survival of a fatal disease which has resulted in a passionate character. Innstetten, on the contrary, considers Effi to be particularly beautiful when she looks pale, lethargic and frail for he connects Effi’s ill appearance with his wife finally becoming a woman. Beauty, however, is exposed as a construct in both of Fontane’s works: on the one hand, by the (in itself) contradictory argumentations of the characters; on the other hand, by the narrators who criticize and disprove the prince’s idea of Victoire, which is temporarily accepted by Schach, and Innstetten’s connection of illness, beauty and femininity.
The examination of the discourse of honour and love reaches the conclusion that both of Fontanes’s works portray honour as a construct with changing truth. In Schach von Wuthenow honour is exposed and critiziced mainly by Josephine, in Effi Briest mainly by Innstetten and Luise because these characters are aware of the identity-constructing quality of the demands made by society. Nevertheless, Innstetten submits his love for Effi to the claims by the disourse of honour; Luise, however, realizes in her love for Effi a part of her human essence. Luise’s love for her daughter is completely accepted since it is considered natural; thus it turns out to be beyond the demands of honour. Josephine also acknowledges the greater truth of parental love and retreats from her strong wish to live a life in harmony with society in favour of her daughter.
By means of their female protagonists, Fontane’s story Schach von Wuthenow and his novel Effi Briest demand a re-evaluation of the discourse of love. Not the love between a man and a woman but the love of a mother for her daughter is portrayed as natural and is thus considered beyond any demands of the disourse of beauty and honour.
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Jansová, Iva Bernadetta. "Vítězky a poražené. Obrazy žen v románech Theodora Fontana Frau Jenny Treibel a Effi Briest." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-404877.
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This Master's thesis deals with female characters of the socially critical novel Frau Jenny Treibel by Theodor Fontane, in order to find out whether the heroines are satisfied in their social roles or whether they try to challenge the social norms, and what role their social background and education play in this matter. Furthermore, we ask what life goals these women pursue and how successful they are in fulfilling them. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter sketches Fontane's biography with the emphasis on the importance of his numerous friendships with women and his ambivalent relationship to female emancipation. Based on literature research, the second chapter introduces poetic realism focusing on Fontane's specific position in it - as a critical realist with elements of modernity. The third, longest chapter, contains the analysis and interpretation of the individual female characters of the novel. We have found, that regardless their social class and education, the heroines live under social conventions, according to which their main goal is an advantageous marriage, functioning at the same time as the measure of their success. The two protagonists, the representative of the intellectual bourgeoisie Corinna, and the more experienced representative of the newly rich...
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TYRRELL, THOMAS. "THEODOR FONTANES "EFFI BRIEST" UND FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGENS "ZUM ZEITVERTREIB": ZWEI DICHTUNGEN ZU EINER WIRKLICHKEIT. (GERMAN TEXT)." Thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16016.
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Fontane and Spielhagen wrote their novels almost simultaneously based on the same incident from Berlin society-life of the 1880s. The dissertation has two main thrusts: (1) An examination of the changes which Fontane made in his adaptation of the story shows clearly how conservative his treatment of the material was. He avoided the more progressive, controversial aspects of the case and made of a happening, which was entirely symptomatic of the development of the role of women in marriage and society on the threshold of the 20th century (and of the reactionary element, which sought to arrest this development) a fable, which is firmly anchored in the aristocratic life of 19th century Germany. These findings stand in clear contrast to those of Fontane studies of the last 30 years in general (and of feminist-oriented studies in particular), which have tended to exaggerate the importance of the social-critical aspect of his works at the expense of a more balanced view of progressive and conservative elements. (2) An examination of the technique of both authors, particularly in light of Spielhagens literary theories, shows that Spielhagen, who had sought to achieve a realistic representation of life through the use of a formula of "epic objectivity", failed in this endeavour, in spite of the great technical virtuosity of his work. Fontane, on the other hand, who did not commit himself wholeheartedly to this theory, was able to attain a high degree of realism by offering a wide perspective of subjective points of view (with none of which the narrator was identified), which in turn allow the reader to form his own "objectified" picture of reality.
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Holoubková, Simona. "Effi Briest, Mathilde Möhring. Vývoj postavy žen na pozadí dobové emancipace ve stejnojmenných románech Theodora Fontana." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-330344.
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Theodore Fontane is best known as the author of numerous women's novels, which he wrote in the last ten years of his life. This diploma thesis deals with the topic of women's emancipation on the basis of textual analysis of two latter novels by Theodore Fontane - Effi Briest and Mathilde Möhring. In the first part, it characterizes the topic of the period women's emancipation and puts the author's biography into context. In the second part, it creates the picture of position of the main women characters. The last part describes the personal development of the women characters, on the basis of which I determine how much the women's emancipation reflects in the author's work and what is his attitude towards it. This thesis deals with the interpretation of the author's intent to illustrate the creation of an advanced character like Mathilde Möhring. Key words: Theodore Fontane, women's emancipation, Effi Briest, Mathilde Möhring, development of women's characters, women's novels, interpretation, author's intent, counterpoint
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Chen, Da-ren, and 陳達仁. "The Relationship between Men and Women in Madame Bovary and Effi Briest : Social Pressure and Inner Conflicts." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33954386054464888561.
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碩士國立中正大學
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This thesis examines the situation of middle class women in the nineteenth century, by focusing on analyzing their situation in their marriage, and on how they are victimized by the social standards established by their male counterpart. In this thesis, we choose two masterpieces, Gustave Flaubert’ Madame Bovary (1856) in France, and Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest (1895) in Germany. Both of them share the same theme of adultery, moreover, the novels are adapted from the real stories. Therefore, by comparing to novels of the same category, we hope that readers can have a better understanding of women’s situation in their marital life and how they fight against the patriarchal society. This thesis is divided into two parts. After introducing Realism and the background of the novels, the first chapter will introduce nineteenth century historical background of France and Germany. Furthermore, we discuss the marriage of the middle class and the situation of women through a socio-historical approach. In the second chapter, the focus shifts from society to men and women. In this part, the focus is on analyzing the relationship between the main characters in the two novels by taking psycho-analytical approach and ending with a comparison in which the similar features of the characters and the plots will be discussed. The final section will give the answer to what the women in the nineteenth century lack of in their marriage and how their inner desires are repressed by the social norm. Moreover, we will point out how the society and men treat the women committing adultery.
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Li, Kuo-Pao, and 李國寶. "Adultery as motive in Theodor Fontanes Effi Briest, Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary und Leo Tolstojs Anna Karenina." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06913049660807237837.
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碩士輔仁大學
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In the available work is Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest (1895), Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1857) and Leo Tolstoj’s Anna Karenina (1878) become, after aspects like the authors in their works by means of the woman figures and the environment, which respective society moral, society standard and society formation to express. The three woman figures Effi, Emma and Anna commit adultery. Due to the society standards and social order they experience their fate and end. Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest treats the marriage problem, which entails adultery and the social isolation. Fontane uses a real material from 19. Century and those fateful process. The internal conflict in the novel is in the main figure Effi, and the contradiction is between its preference for unabashed liberty and its social reputation, which are also important for it, so that an unbridgeable discrepancy between fiery heart develops and for normative order of conditions, a not dissolvable contrast of humanity and society. Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, which describes the poor life of a doctor Charles and his Mrs. Emma from romantic to adultery, treats the secret dear relationship between Emma and her lover Leon, Charles Bovary’s Green-hat and finally Emma’s guilty death symptomatic for the process of Emma’s illness seems above all to be that it never comes to a balanced relationship between desire world and reality, between ideal and reality. Adultery does not lead to the revenge, or to the duel due to the honour, not like the exit in the Effi Briest, but resignation is shown and the fate-clung as matter of course is accepted. Leo Tolstoj’s Anna Karenina treats a family misfortune in one foreignness big-city environment are represented, in which Vronskij with its unfortunate consequences loved by unfortunately married Anna. Tolstoj would like to show its family idea with motive for adultery. It tries also, the material upper strata of social in the Russia 19. Century. To represent century in the novel, those their values in personal honour and the outside behavior view. By the marriage crisis between Anna and Alexis Karenin not only the lie, falsehood of the Russian society one shows, but also the weak position of the women after the divorce. In Fontane’s Effi Briest dies Effi helplessly in one discharging society. A similar criticism to cool and on own honour considered married men addresses the society novel Anna Karenina of Tolstoj. In the France literature Madame Bovary of Flaubert plays the secret dear relationship between Emma and Leon, Charles Bovary’s Green-hat and finally Emma’s guilty death due to the respective social order experiences the three woman a tragic fate and to death is finally floated. The social and moral aspect of the topic becomes clearer than in Madame Bovary. The motive adultery in Madame Bovary is not from more social, but treats from psychological perspective.
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Wozniak, JOLANTA. "TIERSYMBOLE IM REALISMUS. DIE SCHWARZE SPINNE, DER SCHIMMELREITER UND EFFI BRIEST ALS BEISPIELE DER CHIFFRIERTEN WIRKLICHKEIT DES 19. JAHRHUNDERTS." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1431.
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This thesis analyses the role of animal symbolism as a reflection on the zeitgeist of the 19th century. The three works Die schwarze Spinne (1842) by Jeremias Gotthelf, Der Schimmelreiter (1888) by Theodor Storm and Effi Briest (1895) by Theodor Fontane show how animals are used to convey what the stylistic restrictions of the epoch do otherwise not allow for.
The first chapter analyses the animal image of the “black spider.” The picture is a powerful tool to highlight patriarchal fear, local legends and beliefs of a small community in contemporaneous Switzerland. The second chapter represents the allusions of animals such as a horse or a cat, which represent suppressed human motions. Used in this way, they express the pessimism and alienation of humankind that is read as social criticism. The third chapter demonstrates an example of the virtuous character of a dog through which the deep crisis of the society and humanity at that time is mirrored.
The use of the animal figures in Realism proves a deep connection of humankind to nature. The imagery generates new perspectives on the crisis of the era, for which religious dilemmas, isolation and alienation of the individual in society are characteristic.Thesis (Master, German) -- Queen's University, 2008-09-15 11:26:19.721
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KOLÁŘOVÁ, Jana. "Moderne Frau und in der Zeit der Industrialisierung." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-55692.
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This thesis deals with an analysis of chosen books written by a famous German writer Thedor Fontane. Particularly, there are three main books I have chosen for my analysis ? Desire, Torment, Effie Briest and L?Adultera. There is a theoretical part at the beginning of my thesis. I have focused on dealing with specialized foundation. This represents later a basic part for a following analysis in the second, practical part. The second part, the analysis of books, includes general information about the book, brief content of a book and attributes of main characters. It is followed by comparison of historical reality with reality shown in the book. At the end of the whole thesis, there is the third part ? comparison of all three novels, generally as well as from the point of view of the main characters and the historical fidelity of books.