Beauty Or Beast?: The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present

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Encompassing literature, theatre, opera, and art Beauty or Beast? explores representations of the transgressive and frightening figure of the woman warrior in German culture. Watanabe-O'Kelly examines some of the most compelling works of Western culture - Cranach's and Klimt's paintings of Judith, Schiller's Joan of Arc, Hebbel's Judith, Wagner's Brünnhilde, Fritz Lang's Brünhild, and the ways in which women writers come to engage with theseimaginings.

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  Beauty or Beast?: The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination...

  • 2010-06-17
  • 312 pages
  • Ebook
  • OUP Oxford

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