Beauty or beast? the woman warrior in the German imagination from the Renaissance to the present

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Women and literature--Germany--History.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, and in paintings and prints. These warriors are re-imaginings by men of figures such as the Amazons, the Valkyries, and the biblical killer Judith. They are transgressive and therefore frightening figures who leave their proper female sphere and have to be made safe by being killed, deflowered, or both. This has produced some compelling works of Westernculture - Cranach's and Klimt's paintings of Judith, Schiller's Joan of Arc, Hebbel's Judith, Wagner's Br--uuml--;nnhi

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1. Staking Out the Battlefield; 2. Amazons: Warriors or Women?; 3. Many Ways To Die: Women Warriors and National Myth; 4. Judith: Asking the Big Questions; 5. Models for the Men: Heroic Maidens from Schiller to Brecht; 6. Un-becoming a Woman: The Woman Warrior as Cross-dresser; 7. Women's Imaginings: Women Warriors in Fiction; 8. Women's Voices: Less Beast, More Beauty; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-93919-X

9786612939198

0-19-157648-4

OCLC:

646788791