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Article: Representing the people: "Darstellung" and "Vertretung" in Else Lasker-Schuler's drama Die Wupper.
- Article from:
- The Germanic Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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In providing an aesthetic response to reality, literature must either confront or ignore the social and economic divisions within the populace and the factors that inhibit the creation of a unified order.(1) A literary work can take a position that corresponds to already developed ideological perspectives or theories, but it can also organize its own approach; in any case, its composition allows it to create an independent expression of reality.
One traditional dramatic method was to accept the current order by adopting its existing structure in the Standeklausel: the social hierarchy determined the form of literary representation, reserving places in high drama ...