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.
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)77-80
JournalФИЛОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ. ВОПРОСЫ ТЕОРИИ И ПРАКТИКИ
Volume13
Issue number3
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Elfriede Jelinek, female images, femininity, gender stereotype, myth destruction, play, woman myth, гендерный стереотип, Елинек, женские образы, женственность, миф о женщине, пьеса, разрушение мифа

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