Este trabalho se propõe a analisar a novela Leutnant Gustl (1900), de Arthur Schnitzler. A obra, o primeiro monólogo interior em língua alemã, foi escrita no fin-de-siècle em Viena, período conhecido por sua alta produtividade intelectual e artística. Como consequência de uma política mesclada entre a monarquia e burguesia, a regência da cidade era caracterizada por um hibridismo de valores, a priori, paradoxos. Esse composto heterogêneo se reflete na sociedade e na classe artística, resultando em uma produção na qual elementos modernos e pré-modernos díspares convivem. Nesse sentido, sempre considerando o objeto como ponto de partida da análise, será observado em que medida a novela representa a pré-modernidade, com traços como a defesa da honra e a prática do duelo, e outros tipicamente modernos, como a ascensão do lazer, o consumo massificado e a valorização do individualismo. É nesse cenário que examinaremos o tenente Gustl, personagem-narrador, por muitos teóricos considerado um tipo representante do indivíduo da sociedade vienense daquela época. Tomando sua personalidade e sua trajetória como eixo norteador desse estudo, tentaremos mostrar em que medida ele se configura como um indivíduo moderno, apesar de sustentar, externamente, uma fachada de valores prémodernos, os quais, por meio do monólogo interior, o leitor sabe não se tratar nada além de uma imagem. Assim, tomando Gustl como um representante de seu tempo, contraditório e zeloso das falsas aparências, será investigada a sua inserção como indivíduo no seu tempo. / This dissertation aims to analyze the novel Leutnant Gustl (1900), by Arthur Schnitzler. The novel, the first to employ the \"stream-of-consciousness\" technique in German, was written in fin-de-siècle Vienna, a period known for its high intellectual and artistic productivity. Owing to a merged policy between the monarchy and the bourgeoisie, the citys government was characterized by a hybridization of values, paradoxical a priori. This heterogeneous compound is reflected in society and the artistic community, resulting in a production in which modern and pre-modern different elements coexist. Thereby, always considering the object as a starting point of analysis, there will be seen to what extent the novel represents the premodern with traits like the defense of honor and the practice of dueling , and other typically modern, as the rise of leisure, the massive consumption and the awareness of individualism. It is in this background that we examine the lieutenant Gustl, character and narrator, by many experts considered a representative of the individual type of Viennese society at the time. Taking his personality and his career as a core line, this study attempts to show the extent to which he is configured as a modern individual, in spite of sustaining, externally, an artificial appearance of pre-modern values, which, through interior monologue, the reader knows it is nothing but a façade. Hence, taking Gustl as a representative of his time, contradictory and earnest of false appearances, it will be investigated his inclusion as an individual in his time.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Este trabalho se propõe a analisar a novela Leutnant Gustl (1900), de Arthur Schnitzler. A obra, o primeiro monólogo interior em língua alemã, foi escrita no fin-de-siècle em Viena, período conhecido por sua alta produtividade intelectual e artística. Como consequência de uma política mesclada entre a monarquia e burguesia, a regência da cidade era caracterizada por um hibridismo de valores, a priori, paradoxos. Esse composto heterogêneo se reflete na sociedade e na classe artística, resultando em uma produção na qual elementos modernos e pré-modernos díspares convivem. Nesse sentido, sempre considerando o objeto como ponto de partida da análise, será observado em que medida a novela representa a pré-modernidade, com traços como a defesa da honra e a prática do duelo, e outros tipicamente modernos, como a ascensão do lazer, o consumo massificado e a valorização do individualismo. É nesse cenário que examinaremos o tenente Gustl, personagem-narrador, por muitos teóricos considerado um tipo representante do indivíduo da sociedade vienense daquela época. Tomando sua personalidade e sua trajetória como eixo norteador desse estudo, tentaremos mostrar em que medida ele se configura como um indivíduo moderno, apesar de sustentar, externamente, uma fachada de valores prémodernos, os quais, por meio do monólogo interior, o leitor sabe não se tratar nada além de uma imagem. Assim, tomando Gustl como um representante de seu tempo, contraditório e zeloso das falsas aparências, será investigada a sua inserção como indivíduo no seu tempo. / This dissertation aims to analyze the novel Leutnant Gustl (1900), by Arthur Schnitzler. The novel, the first to employ the \"stream-of-consciousness\" technique in German, was written in fin-de-siècle Vienna, a period known for its high intellectual and artistic productivity. Owing to a merged policy between the monarchy and the bourgeoisie, the citys government was characterized by a hybridization of values, paradoxical a priori. This heterogeneous compound is reflected in society and the artistic community, resulting in a production in which modern and pre-modern different elements coexist. Thereby, always considering the object as a starting point of analysis, there will be seen to what extent the novel represents the premodern with traits like the defense of honor and the practice of dueling , and other typically modern, as the rise of leisure, the massive consumption and the awareness of individualism. It is in this background that we examine the lieutenant Gustl, character and narrator, by many experts considered a representative of the individual type of Viennese society at the time. Taking his personality and his career as a core line, this study attempts to show the extent to which he is configured as a modern individual, in spite of sustaining, externally, an artificial appearance of pre-modern values, which, through interior monologue, the reader knows it is nothing but a façade. Hence, taking Gustl as a representative of his time, contradictory and earnest of false appearances, it will be investigated his inclusion as an individual in his time.

This oral interpretation thesis describes and analyzes Chamber Theatre as a technique for the presentation and critical understanding of narrative prose. Arthur Schnitzler and his work are analyzed, and his short story, "The Blind Geronimo and His Brother," is adapted to Chamber Theatre script form. It was discovered that Schnitzler's work is well suited to and would probably benefit from Chamber Theatre productions.

Humboldt-Univ., Magisterarbeit--Berlin, 2001. / Literaturverz. S. 93 - 102.

Originally presented as the author's dissertation.

The role of women in society was an important socio?cultural discourse explored in the literature of the late 19th century. The Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler was a key contributor to this discourse. He was well known for the psychological portrayal of his characters and the sexualization of his literary types, especially of his female characters, and in his writings he dared to break societal taboos. Schnitzler created a wide array of social types, such as the "integrated woman," the "ageing spinster," the "woman of the world," the "prostitute" and the widely discussed type the "s????e M??del" ("sweet girl"). In this thesis, however, I will focus on one of the less examined female types in Schnitzler's work: the "widow. " I will examine two narratives by Schnitzler that concentrate on the widow "Frau Berta Garlan" (1901) and "Frau Beate und ihr Sohn" (1913), to investigate this type and to examine the modes of gendered identity?formation as portrayed in the literary texts. <br /><br /> To examine the gender?types that the protagonists reflect in the search for their identity, I will undertake an intratextual analysis of the text, based on the central premises of Michel Foucault's discourse analysis and Judith Butler's analysis of gender as construct. Within this constructivist paradigm of gender and identity, I will undertake a textual analysis of character representation to demonstrate how identity is formed within the constraints of hegemonic discourses, and how resistance against these preformed modes of identity is predicated by fixed notions of social norms. <br /><br /> The texts focus on the lives of the two female protagonists. Both are widowed and fail to break out of the constraints forced upon them by society. With the awakening of their sexual desire, they are caught in an identity crisis, their desires standing at odds with the asexual identity they must assume as widows. In their attempt to combine their sexual desires with their desire to remain respectable in the eyes of society, the widows eventually fail since normative discourses of gender identity do not allow for alternative identities. Although the texts demonstrate the impossibility of living identities that contravene the central tenets of social norm, that the individual is not free to fashion its own identity, Schnitzler's texts also debunk the myth of a natural gender identity and subvert its fatalistic message by demonstrating clearly the constructed character of gender almost a century before the advent of poststructuralist gender?theory.

The subject of this thesis was virtue and honour in signo temporis. It means that I've tried to focus on the concept of virtue and honour in a certain time period. I have chosen three different literary periods and three works as their representatives. It was the bourgeois tragedy "Emilia Galotti" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, as the representative of the Enlightenment. For the first half of the 19th century I've chosen also a bourgeois tragedy "Maria Magdalena" by Friedrich Hebbel. And as the third example I analysed the novella "Fräulein Else" by Arthur Schnitzler. All of the three heroines are daugthers, who are strongly influenced by this fact. All of them find a tragic end. Two of them commit suicide and one persuades her own father to kill her. The fathers are also an important part of the plot, because their largely contribute to death of their daughters. Emilia in "Emilia Galotti" is stabbed by her own father, after she persuades him to kill her, because she is afraid of losing her virtue, which is at that times related with religion and identified with chastity. In the first half of the 19th century the religious aspect was still a part of the concept of virtue and honour. But the honour was now perceived more in the way of reputation. Klara in "Maria Magdalena", who lost her virtue by...

The role of women in society was an important socio?cultural discourse explored in the literature of the late 19th century. The Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler was a key contributor to this discourse. He was well known for the psychological portrayal of his characters and the sexualization of his literary types, especially of his female characters, and in his writings he dared to break societal taboos. Schnitzler created a wide array of social types, such as the "integrated woman," the "ageing spinster," the "woman of the world," the "prostitute" and the widely discussed type the "süße Mädel" ("sweet girl"). In this thesis, however, I will focus on one of the less examined female types in Schnitzler's work: the "widow. " I will examine two narratives by Schnitzler that concentrate on the widow "Frau Berta Garlan" (1901) and "Frau Beate und ihr Sohn" (1913), to investigate this type and to examine the modes of gendered identity?formation as portrayed in the literary texts. <br /><br /> To examine the gender?types that the protagonists reflect in the search for their identity, I will undertake an intratextual analysis of the text, based on the central premises of Michel Foucault's discourse analysis and Judith Butler's analysis of gender as construct. Within this constructivist paradigm of gender and identity, I will undertake a textual analysis of character representation to demonstrate how identity is formed within the constraints of hegemonic discourses, and how resistance against these preformed modes of identity is predicated by fixed notions of social norms. <br /><br /> The texts focus on the lives of the two female protagonists. Both are widowed and fail to break out of the constraints forced upon them by society. With the awakening of their sexual desire, they are caught in an identity crisis, their desires standing at odds with the asexual identity they must assume as widows. In their attempt to combine their sexual desires with their desire to remain respectable in the eyes of society, the widows eventually fail since normative discourses of gender identity do not allow for alternative identities. Although the texts demonstrate the impossibility of living identities that contravene the central tenets of social norm, that the individual is not free to fashion its own identity, Schnitzler's texts also debunk the myth of a natural gender identity and subvert its fatalistic message by demonstrating clearly the constructed character of gender almost a century before the advent of poststructuralist gender?theory.

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