 | Federfuchser/Penpusher from Lessing to Grillparzer: A Study Focused on Grillparzer''s Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg Subjects: German drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism; German drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Secretaries in literature; Grillparzer Franz 1791-1872. Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg; Concentrating on Klesel's role in Franz Grillparzer's Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg, William Reeve argues that Klesel represents the culmination of a literary type - the Federfuchser, or pen-pushing secretary. Evolving out of the political and social conditions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the secretary is an intellectually gifted individual who acts as the agent of a less-gifted, usually aristocratic, patron. In the secretary's hand, the pen proves mightier than the sword. |
