Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas: Figuring the Female

Figuring the Female explores language as a cultural document for an intervention into the ways that female alterity is framed in the ancient world. Grillparzer creates a new way of being that is primarily discursive in which the once unintelligible female figure may be known and heard.

Alicia E. Ellis is associate professor of German at Colby College.