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