Women and death 3 : women's representations of death in German culture since 1500 / edited by Clare Bielby and Anna Richards.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2010.
Description
vi, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.
    Contents
    • Practicing piety: representations of women's dying in German funeral sermons of the early modern period / Jill Bepler
    • "Ich sterbe": the construction of the dying self in the advance preparations for death of lutheran women in early modern Germany / Judith P. Aikin
    • The "new mythology": myth and death in Karoline von Günderrode's literary work / Barbara Becker-Cantarino
    • The murderess on stage: Christine Westphalen's Charlotte Corday (1804) / Stephanie Hilger
    • "Ob im Tode mein Ich geboren wird?": The representation of the widow in Hedwig Dohm's "Werde, die du bist" (1894) / Abigail Dunn
    • The figure of judith in works by German women writers between 1895 and 1921 / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
    • Lola doesn't: cinema, jouissance, and the avoidance of murder and death / Simon Richter
    • Death, being, and the place of comedy in representations of death / Stephanie Bird
    • "Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk": the appeal to Gaspara Stampa in Ingeborg Bachmann's Todesarten / Aine McMurtry
    • TV nation: the representation of death in warfare in works by Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek / Elisabeth Krimmer.
    Other title(s)
    Women and death three
    ISBN
    • 9781571134394 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 1571134395 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2010000983
    OCLC
    462878495
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