Lucinde or the ambiguity of genders/genres
Abstract
The first German Romanticism was one of the earliest cultural and philosophical movements to incorporate into its program of thought the demand of sexual equality. Although in contradictory way, this approach appears steadily in the Friedrich Schlegel works. His novel Lucinda is the point of union of the philosopher’s main ideas about women and the feminine. In this article, I propose a reading of the literary text as the implementation of the Schlegelian ideas about the sexual gender. This analysis concludes with the thesis that, for the youngster of the Schlegel, gender ambiguity is an indispensable requirement in the achievement of a full humanity, while defending that the same ambiguity must be reflected in the textuality that prefigures it.
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