«Machen Sie mich nicht reich. Geben Sie mir nur so viel, als man braucht, wenn man nicht gehorchen, und nicht befehlen will». Strategie del possesso nella «Betschwester» di Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

As in all Gellert’s comedies, the characters of the The Prayer Sister (1745) aspire to both material well-being and an ideal spiritual happiness. The impulse to possession, which encompasses the sphere of reality as well as that of the symbolic, is an ambivalent, contradictory force. The aim of sel...

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Main Author: Maurizio Pirro
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2020-11-01
Series:Studia theodisca
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca/article/view/14564