The Fetishization of Female Trauma. How Mozart Constructs Sovereignty Through Maleness and Denies Sovereignty Through Femaleness

Literature Review from the year 2016 in the subject Musicology, grade: A, , course: Seminar II, language: English, abstract: I aim to illuminate the sexual, familial, and the political power structures in "Don Giovanni" through the use of Lauren Berlant’s theory of the intimate public sphere and Rousseau’s theory of the body politic. More specifically, I wish to examine how through maleness, sov...