Groteske Vorführungen: Die Darstellung von Masse und Individuum in den Revolutionsgrotesken von Arthur Schnitzler (class="a-plus-plus">Der grüne Kakadu) und Rudolf von Delius (class="a-plus-plus">Robespierre)

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• 作者：Michiel Rys
• 关键词：Grotesque ; revolution ; Arthur Schnitzler ; Rudolf von Delius ; Individuality ; The masses
• 刊名：Neophilologus
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：100
• 期：4
• 页码：611-629
• 全文大小：468 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Linguistics
  Historical Linguistics
  Comparative Linguistics
  Philology
  Comparative Literature
  Syntax
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-8668
• 卷排序：100

文摘

This paper connects the category of the grotesque to the political and aesthetic complications of representations of post-monarchical power. In order to achieve the interplay of this figurative development, two grotesque plays on the French Revolution will be examined: Arthur Schnitzler’s Der grüne Kakadu (1899) and Rudolf von Delius’ Robespierre (1906). The analysis will show how Schnitzler and Delius deconstruct the theatrical procedures that underpin socio-political structures challenged by the French Revolution. What this amounts to is the grotesque staging of revolutionary beginning (Schnitzler) or end (Delius) and revealing the repressed origins and foundations witnessed at the advent of political modernity. Both authors hint at the impossibility of suppressing the instinctive, Dionysian dimension (mostly associated with the masses) in favour of rational, Apollonian individuality. Doing so, Schnitzler as Delius engage with dominant contemporary views on political representation, authoritarianism and mass psychology.