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The article reads Bettina von Arnim’s Goethe’s Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde focusing on the written gestures she describes in the remembered and imagined encounters with Goethe. Based on the rhetorical devices of actio and ekphrasis, Bettina von Arnim establishes a rhetoric of bodily interaction, which subverts the restricted gestural codes recommended for women in 18th/19th Century etiquette manuals. Thereby she transforms an instrumental actio based on disciplining and controlling the (female) body into a bodily relation to the self and to the word that resonates with female wants.

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Published in:
Rhetorik : ein internationales Jahrbuch
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Niemeyer
Publishing place:
Berlin
Tübingen
Vol.:
42
No.:
1
ISSN:
1865-9160
ISSN:
0720-5775
ISSN:
1865-9160
Pages:
70 - 86
Date Issued:
2023
URN:
urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:3-2026-01371-2
DOI:
10.1515/rhet-2023-0006
Language:
German
Type of Resource:
Text
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Keywords:
Bettina von Arnim; Goethe’s Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde; actio; ekphrasis; gesture; embodiment; rhetoric; gender; etiquette; women's writing
Classification:
Published version
DDC subject of DNB:
400 Language, Linguistics
Hosting institution:
Faculties, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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