| Description |
xii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
1. Imaging the Unimaginable: Death Personified: Is Death a woman? -- 2. The Middle Ages: The Unfortunate Fall: The wages of sin - Adam's sin, or Eve's? -- 3. Renaissance and Baroque: The Devil Incarnate: Death and the Maiden - and the man -- 4. The Romantic Age: "How Wonderful is Death": The youth with the downturned torch; "The last best friend"; Death in the bridal chamber -- 5. From Decadence to Postmodernity: The Stranger at the Masked Ball: Angels of death and skeletal coquettes -- Epilogue: Death immortalizing life |
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1. Imaging the Unimaginable: Death Personified: Is Death a woman? -- 2. The Middle Ages: The Unfortunate Fall: The wages of sin - Adam's sin, or Eve's? -- 3. Renaissance and Baroque: The Devil Incarnate: Death and the Maiden - and the man -- 4. The Romantic Age: "How Wonderful is Death": The youth with the downturned torch; "The last best friend"; Death in the bridal chamber -- 5. From Decadence to Postmodernity: The Stranger at the Masked Ball: Angels of death and skeletal coquettes --Epilogue: Death immortalizing life |
| Summary |
Tracing the gender of representations of death in art and literature from medieval times to the present day, Karl Guthke offers insights into the nature and perception of the Western self in its cultural, intellectual, and literary context |
| Analysis |
Muerte en el arte |
| Notes |
"Gender in death is my [the author's] own version (with some additions, deletions and corrections) of Ist der Tod eine Frau? (Munich: Beck, 1997; 2nd edn. 1998)."--P. xi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-289) and index |
| Subject |
Gender identity in literature.
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Death in literature.
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Arts.
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Death in art.
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Gender identity in art.
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Gender Identity.
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Women.
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| Author |
Guthke, Karl Siegfried, 1933-
Ist der Tod eine Frau?
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| LC no. |
98025141 |
| ISBN |
0521644607 paperback |
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0521591953 hb |
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