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Published March 13, 2023 | Version https://www.ijassjournal.com/2020/V3I6/4146575157.pdf
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Grimmelshausen's Landstörtzerin Courasche Like Frau Welt.

  • 1. (Department of Modern Languages and Cultures/ University of Genoa, Italy)

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The aim of this essay is to describe the role of Courage –the female protagonist of ‘Die Landstörtzerin Courasche’ (1669) by Grimmelshausen - as the incarnation of Frau Welt, as was suggested by Feldges, in order to bring out the complexity of a literary character whose (female) image was made up of the usual misogynistic stereotypes of Grimmelshausen’s historical and cultural context. Despite being depicted as a modern Frau Welt, Courage cannot escape her destiny of subordination to men and essentially acts as a deterrent character, thus embodying the misogynistic stereotypes of the time

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