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Contemporary Women's Writing in German: Changing the Subject
by Brigid Haines, Margaret Littler. 160 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Ingeborg Bachmann, Simultan (1972)

2: Elfriede Jelinek, Die Liebhaberinnen (1975)

3: Anne Duden, 'Übergang' (1982)

4: Christa Wolf, Kassandra (1983)

5: Herta Müller, Reisende Auf Einem Bein (1989)

6: Emine Sevgi Özdamar, 'Mutter Zunge' and 'Großvater Zunge' (1990)

Chronology

Glossary

Furtherreading

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Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
by Elke P. Frederiksen, Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler. 566 pgs.

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Women have contributed to the literature of German-speaking countries since the Middle Ages, and they continue to write important works at the close of the 20th century. While research on texts by women writers in German-speaking countries has increased substantially, most of these authors remain virtually unknown to English-speaking scholars and students. The first work of its kind in English, this reference book contains alphabetically arranged entries for 54 Austrian, German, and Swiss women writers--such as Hrotsvit von Gandersheim, Louise Aston, Elfriede Jelinek, and Erica Pedretti--from the tenth century to the present day. Each entry includes a biography, a discussion of major themes, a survey of criticism, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An introductory essay overviews the history of literature by women in German-speaking countries, and an extensive bibliography concludes the volume.

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Preface

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Introduction: a Multiplicity of Voices

Worm Cited

Ilse Aichinger (1921- ) Austria

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Lou Andreas- SalomÉ (1861-1937) Germany/Russia

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Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884) Germany/Usa

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Bettina Brentano-Von Armin (1785-1859) Germany

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Louise Aston (1814-1871) Germany

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Rose AuslÄnder (1901-1988) Austria-Hungary/Germany

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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) Austria

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Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179) Germany

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Charlotte Birchpfeiffer (1800-1868) Germany

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Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919) Germany

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Hilde Domin (1912- ) Germany

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Ingeborg Drewitz (1923-1986) Germany

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Annette Von Drostc-HÜlshoff (1797-1848) Germany

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Marie Von Ebner- Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austria

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Marieluise Fleißer (1901-1974) Germany

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Barbara Frischmuth (1941- ) Austria

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Hrotsvit Von Gandersheim (ca. 935-Ca. 1002) Germany

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"Luise Gottsched (1713-1762) Germany

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Catharina Regina Von Greiffenberg (1633-1694) Austria/Germany

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Karoline Von GÜnderrode (1780-1806) Germany

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Ida Hahn-Hahn (1805-1880) Germany

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Elfriede Jelinek (1946-) Austria

Anna Louisa Karsch (1722-1791) Germany

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Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974) Germany

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Marie-ThÉrÈse Kerschbaumer (1936- ) Austria

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Irmgard Keun (1905-1982) Germany

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Sarah Kirsch (1935-) Germany

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Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943) Germany

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Helga KÖnigsdorf (1938-) Germany

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Elisabeth LanggÄsser (1899-1950) Germany

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Sophie Von La Roche (1730-1807) Germany

Major Themes and Narrative/Poetic Strategies

Else Lasker- SchÜler (1869-1945) Germany/Israel

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Fanny Lewald (1811-1889) Germany

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Mechthild Von Magdeburg (ca. 1210-Ca. 1294) Germany

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Monika Maron (1941- ) Germany

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Sophie Mereau (1770-1806) Germany

LibuŠe MonÍkovÁ (1945- ) Czech Republic/Germany

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Irmtraud Morgner (1933-1990) Germany

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Louise Otto-Peters (1819-1895) Germany

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Erica Pedreth (1930- ) Moravia/Switzerland

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Christa Reinig (1926- ) Germany

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Gerlind Reinshagen (1926- ) Germany

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Gabriele Reuter (1859-1941) Germany

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Luise Rinser (1911- ) Germany

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Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) Germany/Sweden

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Dorothea Schlegel (1764-1839) Germany

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Caroline Schlegel- Schelling (1763-1809) Germany

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Johanna Schopenhauier (1766-1838) Germany

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Anna Maria Van Schurman (1607-1678) Germany/The Netherlands

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Anna Seghers (1900-1983) Germany

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Verena Stefan (1947- ) Switzerland/Germany

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Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) Germany

Gabrielle Wohmann (1932- ) Germany

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Chirta Wolf (1929- ) Germany

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Appendix: List of Authors by Date

Selected Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Title Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Post-War Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches
by Chris Weedon. 360 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Reading Women's Writing Feminist Critical Approaches

Chapter Three: Women's Writing In Occupied Germany, 1945-1949

Chapter Four: Women's Writing In The 1950s and 1960s

Chapter Five: The Early Novels Of Ruth Rehmann

Chapter Six: Women's Writing, 1968-1980

Chapter Seven: Women's Writing of The 1980s and 1990s

Chapter Eight: Original Differentiation The Poetics of Anne Duden

Chapter Nine: Searching for Intercultural Communication Emine Sevgi Özdamar -- a Turkish Woman Writer In Germany

Chapter Ten: Women Writers in The Gdr, 1945-1989

Chapter Eleven: Developments in East German Women's Writing Since Autumn 1989

Chapter Twelve: Reading Christa Wolf

Chapter Thirteen: Post-War Austrian Women Writers

Chapter Fourteen Reading Ingeborg Bachmann

Chapter Fifteen: Reading Elfriede Jelinek

Chapter Sixteen: Women's Writing in German- Speaking Switzerland Engaging with Tradition -- Eveline Hasler And Gertrud Leutenegger

Afterword

Notes on Contributors

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German Women in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History
by John C. Fout. 439 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Current Research on German Women's History in the Nineteenth Century

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Enlightened Reforms and Bavarian Girls' Education: Tradition through Innovation

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Hannah Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen

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Henriette Schleiermacher: A Woman in a Traditional Role

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The Reading Habits of Women in the VormÄrz

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Prelude to Consciousness: Amalie Sieveking and the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and the Sick

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Female Political Opposition in Pre-1848 Germany: The Role of Kathinka Zitz-Halein

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German Women Writers and the Revolution of 1848

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Self-Conscious Histories: Biographies of German Women in the Nineteenth Century

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Growing Up Female in the Nineteenth Century

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The Radicalization of Lily Braun

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The Impact of Agrarian Change on Women's Work and Child Care in Early Nineteenth-Century Prussia

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Domestic Industry: Work Options and Women's Choices

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Social Insurance and the Family Work of Oberlausitz Home Weavers in the Late Nineteenth Century

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The Woman's Role in the German Working-Class Family in the 1890s from the Perspective of Women's Autobiographies

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The Civilizing Tendency of Hygiene: Working-Class Women under Medical Control in Imperial Germany

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The Female Victim: Homicide and Women in Imperial Germany

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An English-Language Bibliography on European and American Women's History

ANTHOLOGIES OF ORIGINAL SOURCES

The Contributors

Index
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Studies in Modern German Literature: Sudermann; Hauptmann; Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
by Otto Heller. 310 pgs.

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Modern German Literature: Hermann Sudermann

Gerhart Hauptmann

Women Writers

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Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers
by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz. 402 pgs.

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Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Writing the Motherland

2: At the Crossroads

3: The Troubled Metropolis

4: Beyond Humanism

5: German and Jew

6: The Diaspora in the Diaspora

7: Jewish Women Authors and the Left

8: Between Eden and Utopia

9: Encounters and Confrontations

10: Toward a New Jewish Women's Literature

Conclusion

Notes

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General Index

Author-Title Index
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Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic
by Jerold C. Frakes. 298 pgs.

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1. Introduction

2. Philology and/as Patriarchy: The Conventions of Nibelungenlied Scholarship

3. Women, Property, and Power

4. Pillow Talk: Intimate Conversations -- Political Strategies

5. Teuton as Amazon: The Devil's Bride and the She-Devil

6. Inconclusive Intermezzo: The Monsters, the Critics, Diu Klage

7. Women, Sovereignty, and Class in Kudrun

8. Suone as Social (Trans)formation

9. Women's Epic and/as Masculist Backlash

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Modern German Literature, 1880-1950 (Chap. XIII "The Women Writers")
by Jethro Bithell. 584 pgs.

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Illustrations

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Preface To the Third Edition

I: Naturalism

II: The Dramatists Of Naturalism

III: Humorists, Satirists, Satanists and Visionaries

IV: The Novel of Naturalism And Decadence

V: From Bahr to Dehmel

VI: Stefan George And His Circle

VII: Rilke

VIII: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

IX: The Neo-Romantic And Austrian Dramatists

X: Cosmic Impressionists And Epic Infinities

XI: Neo-Classicism

XII: The Novel Of Impressionism

XIII: The Women Writers

XIV: The Regional Novel

XV: The Novel Of Expressionism

XVI: Exotic Literature And the Colonial Novel

XVII: The Historical Novel

XVIII: The Drama Of Expressionism

XIX: Phases of Lyric Poetry

XX: The Literature Of Race and Soil

XXI: Philosophers and Sophists

XXII: Existentialism And Surrealism, Political And Religious Phases

XXIII: Post-War Austrian Writers

XXIV: The New Verse

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Beyond 1989: Re-Reading German Literary History since 1945 ("Critical Interventions: German Women Writing after 1945" begins on p. 69)
by Keith Bullivant. 180 pgs.

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Introduction: Beyond 1989

Confronting The Nazi Past

A Farewell to The Letters of The Federal Republic?: F. Schirrmacher's Postwall Assessment Of Postwar German Literature

Texts and Contexts: Gdr Literature During the 1970s

Literature And Convergence: The Early 1980s

Critical Interventions: German Women Writing After 1945

Thou Bleeding Piece Yof Earth: The Affinity of Aesthetics and Ethics And Erich Fried's Poems

A Revival of Conservative Literature?: The "Spiegel-Symposium 1993" and Beyond

Re/Fusing Past And Present: Cinematic Reunification Under the Sign of Nationalism And Racism: Helke Misselwitz's Herzprung

What Should Remain?: Exploring the Literary Contributions To Postwar German History

Notes on Contributors
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Women Writers and Fascism: Reconstructing History
by Marie-Luise Gattens. 185 pgs.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

One: FASCISM AS GENDERED HISTORY Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas

Two: THE FATHERLY TEXT OF HISTORY Ruth Rehmann's Der Mann auf der Kanzel

Three: WOMEN'S HISTORY AS ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood

Four: LAW, GENDER, AND COMPLICITY Helga Schubert's Judasfrauen

Five: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY CONTINUES

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Boundaries, Borders and Female Identity in German Women Writers of World War I, in Women and Language
by Patricia Marchesi. 8 pgs.

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The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature
by Friederike Eigler, Susanne Kord. 684 pgs.

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Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive reference provides a much needed synthesis of the contribution women have made to German literature and culture. In entries for more than 500 topics, the volume surveys literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; important authors and works; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry offers a concise identification of the term, a discussion of its significance, and a bibliography of works for further reading.

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Appendix of Names

Index

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