Demystification of "Woman Myth" in Early Plays by Elfriede Jelinek
Pridorogina Elena Aleksandrovna
Saint Petersburg University
Submitted: 07.02.2020
Abstract. The article analyses two plays of the modern Austrian prose-writer, essayist and dramatist Elfriede Jelinek (1946). By the example of the two chosen plays the paper examines the gender relations problem, which acquired the features of the gender opposition of "male" and "female" in the writer’s creative work. It is shown that, using borrowed stories and artistic exaggeration techniques, the author reveals absurdity of stereotype everyday consciousness and destroys everyday myths attracting public attention to problems of the modern society.
Key words and phrases: Елинек, женственность, гендерный стереотип, разрушение мифа, миф о женщине, пьеса, женские образы, Elfriede Jelinek, femininity, gender stereotype, myth destruction, woman myth, play, female images
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