• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Gegenwartskritik und nostalgische Rückgriffe: Die Abdankung der Frau als Objekt männlichen Begehrens und die Erotisierung der Kindfrau in Botho Strauß' Paare Passanten
  • Beteiligte: Bauer, Karin
  • Erschienen: American Association of Teachers of German, 1996
  • Erschienen in: The German Quarterly
  • Sprache: Deutsch
  • ISSN: 0016-8831; 1756-1183
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  • Beschreibung: <p> This examination of the images of femininity and the eroticization of the woman-child in Botho Strauß's Paare Passanten argues against a hasty reconciliation between a critique of enlightenment and a feminist critique of patriarchy. Pointing out the inherent contradiction of a criticism operating with gender-specific definitions of writing, it takes issue with the postulation of an affinity between Strauß's text and an écriture feminine. Despite the historical distance and the differences between Strauß's narrator and the flaneur of modernity, his images of the feminine as well as his disdain for the masses and his fear of losing a clearly defined male identity place Paare Passanten in the tradition of aesthetic modernity. </p>