From idler to do-nothing - Poetic forms depicting interpersonal relations on stage, visually or novelistically as literary examples of subversive idleness

Authors
Klotz, V
Citation
V. Klotz, From idler to do-nothing - Poetic forms depicting interpersonal relations on stage, visually or novelistically as literary examples of subversive idleness, OSTER Z VOL, 104(1), 2001, pp. 23-37
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Literature
Journal title
OSTERREICHISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR VOLKSKUNDE
ISSN journal
00299669 → ACNP
Volume
104
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
23 - 37
Database
ISI
SICI code
0029-9669(2001)104:1<23:FITD-P>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
One German term for idling(Mussig-Gehen) includes the verb "to go or walk." Any such going is understood as agile movement, and not by any means as mo tionlessness or as staying in a resting position. Yet when it comes to viol ations of societal norms, sanctions are far sharper for what is actively do ne than what is passively not done. This essay analyzes those poetic forms which depict interpersonal relations either on stage or describes them visu ally and novelistically, and in that sense presents literary examples of su bversive idleness.