Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
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Drawing on Kristevan psychoanalysis and feminist critical theory, this text presents a re-evaluation of the role of the mother in the work of Lessing, the influential German critic and dramatist of the 18th century who shaped German literary tradition.
Many cultural historians agreed with Foucault that the late 19th century witnesses the birth of the homosexual identity. This work argues that the literature and discourse of male-male desire was evident a century earlier, within the tradition of German Classicism.