Women and Death 3: Women's Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500

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Women and Death 3

Women's Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500

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Edited by Clare Bielby, University of Hull, Anna Richards, Birkbeck College, University of London

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: March 2023
Print publication year:: 2010
Online ISBN:: 9781571137104
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781571137104

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Theory
Series:: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.

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Women and Death 3

Women's Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-11

1 - Practicing Piety: Representations of Women’s Dying in German Funeral Sermons of the Early Modern Period
pp 12-30

2 - “Ich sterbe”: The Construction of the Dying Self in the Advance Preparations for Death of Lutheran Women in Early Modern Germany
pp 31-50

3 - The “New Mythology”: Myth and Death in Karoline von Günderrode’s Literary Work
pp 51-70

4 - The Murderess on Stage: Christine Westphalen’s Charlotte Corday (1804)
pp 71-87

5 - “Ob im Tode mein Ich geboren wird?”: The Representation of the Widow in Hedwig Dohm’s “Werde, die du bist” (1894)
pp 88-100

6 - The Figure of Judith in Works by German Women Writers between 1895 and 1921
pp 101-115

7 - Lola Doesn’t: Cinema, Jouissance, and the Avoidance of Murder and Death
pp 116-133

8 - Death, Being, and the Place of Comedy in Representations of Death
pp 134-151

9 - “Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk”: The Appeal to Gaspara Stampa in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten
pp 152-173

10 - TV Nation: The Representation of Death in Warfare in Works by Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek
pp 174-192

Works Cited
pp 193-212

Notes on the Contributors
pp 213-216

Index
pp 217-224

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