The Resonance of the Piano: Gender, Culture, and Power in German Literature from Bourgeois Realism to Postmodern Critique

Priyanka; Dev Kumar Choudhary

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i05.58784

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The Resonance of the Piano: Gender, Culture, and Power in German Literature from Bourgeois Realism to Postmodern Critique

Author(s)	Ms. Priyanka, Mr. Dev Kumar Choudhary
Country	India
Abstract	This article explores the piano's symbolic and thematic function in German literature, with particular attention to Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks (1901) and Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin (1983). Through a comparative analysis, it examines how the piano serves as a symbol of social prestige, gendered education, and cultural refinement in bourgeois realism and as a tool for psychological control, desire, and repression in postmodernist feminist critique.
Keywords	Piano, Literature, Resonance, Mann, Jelinek, Bourgeois, Education
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On	2025-10-25
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i05.58784

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