Notes on the Contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1: Practicing Piety: Representations of Women’s Dying in German Funeral Sermons of the Early Modern Period 12
7. 2: “Ich sterbe”: The Construction of the Dying Self in the Advance Preparations for Death of Lutheran Women in Early Modern Germany 31
8. 3: The “New Mythology”: Myth and Death in Karoline von Günderrode’s Literary Work 51
9. 4: The Murderess on Stage: Christine Westphalen’s Charlotte Corday (1804) 71
10. 5: “Ob im Tode mein Ich geboren wird?”: The Representation of the Widow in Hedwig Dohm’s “Werde, die du bist” (1894) 88
11. 6: The Figure of Judith in Works by German Women Writers between 1895 and 1921 101
12. 7: Lola Doesn’t: Cinema, Jouissance, and the Avoidance of Murder and Death 116
13. 8: Death, Being, and the Place of Comedy in Representations of Death 134
14. 9: “Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk”: The Appeal to Gaspara Stampa in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten 152
15. 10: TV Nation: The Representation of Death in Warfare in Works by Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek 174
16. Works Cited 193
17. Notes on the Contributors 213
18. Index 217