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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
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With contributions by:
Abigail Dunn
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English
Published/Copyright:
2010
About this book
Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.
In Western culture, women are often linked with death, perhaps because they are traditionally constructed as an unknowable "other." The first two Women and Death volumes investigate ideas about death and the feminine as represented in German culture since 1500, focusing, respectively, on the representation of women as victims and killers and the idea of the woman warrior, and confirming that women who kill or die violent or untimely deaths exercisefascination even as they pose a threat. The traditions of representation traced in the first two volumes, however, are largely patriarchal. What happens when it is women who produce the representations? Do they debunk or reject the dominant discourses of sexual fascination around women and death? Do they replace them with more sober or "realistic" representations, with new forms, modes, and language? Or do women writers and artists, inescapably bound up in patriarchal tradition, reproduce its paradigms? This third volume in the series investigates these questions in ten essays written by an international group of expert scholars. It will be of interest to scholars and students of German literature and culture, gender studies, and film studies. Contributors: Judith Aikin, Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Jill Bepler, Stephanie Bird, Abigail Dunn, Stephanie Hilger, Elisabeth Krimmer, Aine McMurtry, Simon Richter, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. Clare Bielby is Lecturer in German at the University of Hull. Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University of London.
In Western culture, women are often linked with death, perhaps because they are traditionally constructed as an unknowable "other." The first two Women and Death volumes investigate ideas about death and the feminine as represented in German culture since 1500, focusing, respectively, on the representation of women as victims and killers and the idea of the woman warrior, and confirming that women who kill or die violent or untimely deaths exercisefascination even as they pose a threat. The traditions of representation traced in the first two volumes, however, are largely patriarchal. What happens when it is women who produce the representations? Do they debunk or reject the dominant discourses of sexual fascination around women and death? Do they replace them with more sober or "realistic" representations, with new forms, modes, and language? Or do women writers and artists, inescapably bound up in patriarchal tradition, reproduce its paradigms? This third volume in the series investigates these questions in ten essays written by an international group of expert scholars. It will be of interest to scholars and students of German literature and culture, gender studies, and film studies. Contributors: Judith Aikin, Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Jill Bepler, Stephanie Bird, Abigail Dunn, Stephanie Hilger, Elisabeth Krimmer, Aine McMurtry, Simon Richter, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. Clare Bielby is Lecturer in German at the University of Hull. Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Clare Bielby
CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK.
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Contributor: Elisabeth Krimmer
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1: Practicing Piety: Representations of Women’s Dying in German Funeral Sermons of the Early Modern Period
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2: “Ich sterbe”: The Construction of the Dying Self in the Advance Preparations for Death of Lutheran Women in Early Modern Germany
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3: The “New Mythology”: Myth and Death in Karoline von Günderrode’s Literary Work
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4: The Murderess on Stage: Christine Westphalen’s Charlotte Corday (1804)
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5: “Ob im Tode mein Ich geboren wird?”: The Representation of the Widow in Hedwig Dohm’s “Werde, die du bist” (1894)
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6: The Figure of Judith in Works by German Women Writers between 1895 and 1921
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7: Lola Doesn’t: Cinema, Jouissance, and the Avoidance of Murder and Death
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8: Death, Being, and the Place of Comedy in Representations of Death
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9: “Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk”: The Appeal to Gaspara Stampa in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Todesarten
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10: TV Nation: The Representation of Death in Warfare in Works by Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek
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Works Cited
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Notes on the Contributors
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Index
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January 30, 2024
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9781571137104
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Camden House
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Keywords for this book
Women; Feminism; Gender; Death; Agents of death; Victim; Women killers; Sexualization; Feminine; Patriarchy; Violence; Eroticicsm; Female agency; German culture; German literature; Women's studies; Women in literature; Cultural history
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
