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

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 thereforefrightening 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 Western culture - Cranach's and Klimt's paintings of Judith, Schiller's Joan of Arc, Hebbel's Judith, Wagner's Brunnhilde, Fritz Lang's Brunhild. Nowadays, representations of the woman warrior are used as a way of thinking about the woman terrorist. Women writers only engage with these imaginings at theend of the 19th century, but from the late 18th century on they begin to imagine fictional cross-dressers going to war in a realistic setting and thus think the unthinkable INDICE: INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; I. Angels of Death - German Culture, Women Warriors, and Heroes; II. Amazons - Warriors or Women?; III. Many Ways to Die - Women Warriors and National Myth; IV. Judith - Asking the Big Questions; V. Death and the Maiden - Heroic Maidens from Schiller to Brecht; VI.Unbecoming a Woman - the Woman Warrior as Cross-Dresser; VII. Women's Imaginings - Warriors in Fiction; VIII. Women's Voices - the Amazons, Judith, Charlotte Corday; BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INDEX

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955823-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 30/06/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés