Women in German Yearbook, Volume 14

by Women in German Yearbook

Each volume of Women in German Yearbook includes a wide variety of feminist essays on German literature and culture. In volume 14 John M. Jeep focuses on women's friendships in an anonymous twelfth-century paraphrase and commentary on the Song of Songs , Albrecht Classen examines a sixteenth-century songbook, and Mara R. Wade documents the importance of the contributions of three seventeenth-century Saxon sisters. ? Melanie Archangeli draws attention to the contributions of Charlotte von Hezel. Gail K. Hart explores Friedrich Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orleans . Lisa C. Roetzel reads Die G?nderode as a documentation of Bettine von Arnim's subversive notions of female genius. ? Muriel Cormican analyzes the vacillation between submission and self-assertion of the female protagonist in Lou Andreas-Salom?'s Das Haus . Inca Rumold reads Else Lasker-Sch?ler's Der Malik as a pacifist response to World War I. Friederike Emonds investigates the concepts of Heimat and Vaterland in Frau Emma k?mpft im Hinterland . Catherine C. Marshall sees the alternative society created in Ilse Langner's Klyt?mnestra as a feminist response to the rhetoric of war. ? Dagmar C. G. Lorenz explores the concepts "man" and "animal" in the works of Jewish writers. Hannelore Mundt focuses on the narrator's preoccupation with Katherine Mansfield in a recent novel by Christa Moog, and Sabine Wilke analyzes the cruel woman in the works of Monika Treut against the background of earlier depictions by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and the marquis de Sade.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803298110
• ISBN13: 9780803298118
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 272 Pages