Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau 2017. 238 pages, numerous black-and-white illustrations, soft cover Series: Literatur – Kultur – Geschlecht, Studien zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte [Literature – Culture – Gender, Studies on Literature and Cultural History], short series, Volume 67 ISBN: 978-3-412-22497-4
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The focus of Arthur Schnitzler’s Novelle »Fräulein Else« (1924) is a scandal: A young woman undresses publicly in a music salon at a hotel. With the nude scene, Schnitzler seizes on a motif that advances to a central theme around the turn of the century and is omnipresent. It is less the female body that is revealed and more the »naked truth«. Schnitzler’s primary focus is playing with speechlessness and the shameless revelation of (linguistic) signs.
The countless adaptations and versions in film, on the television or radio, in fine arts, online and in graphic novels also circle around these representation issues, as the study shows for the first time in comprehensive individual analyses.
Reviews
- Anna Obererlacher on 26 January 2017
At: http://www.literaturhaus.at/index.php?id=11440 - Walter Delabar: Nackte Wahrheiten [Naked Truths]. Alexandra Tacke on Arthur Schnitzlers Novella »Fräulein Else« and is media adaptations
At: http://literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=23146 - Anna Lindner: Alexandra Tacke: Schnitzlers Fräulein Else and die Nackte Wahrheit. Novella, screen adaptations and adaptations.
In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik [Journal for German Studies] XXVIII, No. 1 (2018), p. 171-172. - Sascha Kiefer: Fräulein Elses subversive Entblößung [Miss Else’s Subversive Denudation].
In: KulturPoetik [Cultural Poetry], Vol. 18,1 (2017), p.125-131.