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 Gùˆnderrode'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.
Series:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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