Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Practicing Piety: Representations of Women’s Dying in German Funeral Sermons of the Early Modern Period
- 2 “Ich sterbe”: The Construction of the Dying Self in the Advance Preparations for Death of Lutheran Women in Early Modern Germany
- 3 The “New Mythology”: Myth and Death in Karoline von Günderrode’s Literary Work
- 4 The Murderess on Stage: Christine Westphalen’s Charlotte Corday (1804)
- 5 “Ob im Tode mein Ich geboren wird?”: The Representation of the Widow in Hedwig Dohm’s “Werde, die du bist” (1894)
- 6 The Figure of Judith in Works by German Women Writers between 1895 and 1921
- 7 Lola Doesn’t: Cinema, Jouissance, and the Avoidance of Murder and Death
- 8 Death, Being, and the Place of Comedy in Representations of Death
- 9 “Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk”: The Appeal to Gaspara Stampa in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten
- 10 TV Nation: The Representation of Death in Warfare in Works by Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek
- Works Cited
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Practicing Piety: Representations of Women’s Dying in German Funeral Sermons of the Early Modern Period
- 2 “Ich sterbe”: The Construction of the Dying Self in the Advance Preparations for Death of Lutheran Women in Early Modern Germany
- 3 The “New Mythology”: Myth and Death in Karoline von Günderrode’s Literary Work
- 4 The Murderess on Stage: Christine Westphalen’s Charlotte Corday (1804)
- 5 “Ob im Tode mein Ich geboren wird?”: The Representation of the Widow in Hedwig Dohm’s “Werde, die du bist” (1894)
- 6 The Figure of Judith in Works by German Women Writers between 1895 and 1921
- 7 Lola Doesn’t: Cinema, Jouissance, and the Avoidance of Murder and Death
- 8 Death, Being, and the Place of Comedy in Representations of Death
- 9 “Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk”: The Appeal to Gaspara Stampa in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten
- 10 TV Nation: The Representation of Death in Warfare in Works by Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek
- Works Cited
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Women and Death 3Women's Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010