Women and Death 3: Women's Representations of Death in German Culture Since 1500 »

Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction Anna Richards Richards, Anna 1

1 Practicing Piety: Representations of Women's Dying in German Funeral Sermons of the Early Modern Period Jill Bepler Bepler, Jill 12

2 "Ich sterbe": The Construction of the Dying Self in the Advance Preparations for Death of Lutheran Women in Early Modern Germany Judith P. Aikin Aikin, Judith P. 31

3 The "New Mythology": Myth and Death in Karoline von Gunderrode's Literary Work Barbara Becker-Cantarino Becker-Cantarino, Barbara 51

4 The Murderess on Stage: Christine Westphalen's Charlotte Corday (1804) Stephanie Hilger Hilger, Stephanie 71

5 "Ob im Tode mein Ich geboren wird?": The Representation of the Widow in Hedwig Dohm's "Werde, die du bist" (1894) Abigail Dunn Dunn, Abigail 88

6 The Figure of Judith in Works by German Women Writers between 1895 and 1921 Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen 101

7 Lola Doesn't: Cinema, Jouissance, and the Avoidance of Murder and Death Simon Richter Richter, Simon 116

8 Death, Being, and the Place of Comedy in Representations of Death Stephanie Bird Bird, Stephanie 134

9 "Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk": The Appeal to Gaspara Stampa in Ingeborg Bachmann's Todesarten Aine McMurtry McMurtry, Aine 152

10 TV Nation: The Representation of Death in Warfare in Works by Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek Elisabeth Krimmer Krimmer, Elisabeth 174

Works Cited 193

Notes on the Contributors 213

Index 217