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Gender, agency and violence : European perspectives from early modern times to the present day /

Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day centres on literary, cinematic and artistic male and female perpetrators of violence and their discourses. The fifteen contributions to this volume show how patterns of violent agency can be translated acro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zitzlsperger, Ulrike (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Chapter 1 Varushing Women: Gendering History in Sixteenth Century Portrait-Books / Susan Gaylard Gaylard, Susan 1
  • Chapter 2 "Where Violent Sorrow Seems a Modern Ecstasy": The Violence of Women's Actions and Speech in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century French and English Theatre / Leila Goulahsen Goulahsen, Leila 23
  • Chapter 3 Performing Violence to End Violence: Theatrical Entertainment for the Marriage of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre / Julia Prest Prest, Julia 38
  • Chapter 4 A Brute Brute: The Violent Pre-Histories of Early Modern England in Anthony Munday's The Triumphs of Re-United Britannia / Philip Robinson Robinson, Philip 56
  • Chapter 5 Battle, Butchery and Fortitude: Violence, Agency and Gender in the Celebration of Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector of Brandenburg / Sara Smart Smart, Sara 74
  • Chapter 6 Robbers and Lady-Killers / Christian Jäger Jäger, Christian 87
  • Chapter 7 Beauty and Violence: The Constitution of Surface and Depth in the Gaze of Male Artists on Kleist's Penthesilea / Ricarda Schmidt Schmidt, Ricarda 96
  • Chapter 8 Queering Violence and Masculinity in Marinetti / Christine Kanz Kanz, Christine 123
  • Chapter 9 Varieties of Gender War in the Literature of German Expressionism (1910-1925): The Female Stabber in El Hor's "The She-Fool" ("Die Narrin") (1914) / Frank Krause Krause, Frank 132
  • Chapter 10 World War One Gueules Cassees and the Ambiguity of Violence / Marjorie Gehrhardt Gehrhardt, Marjorie 151
  • Chapter 11 Male Murderers in Joseph Roth's Tarabas and Beichte eines Mörders / Johann Georg Lughofer Lughofer, Johann Georg 164
  • Chapter 12 Unmasking Marian: Representing Violence, Gender and Agency in Medieval Films / Andrew B.R. Elliott Elliott, Andrew B.R. 173
  • Chapter 13 "This Will Hurt You More Than it Hurts Me": Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon / Esme Nicholson Nicholson, Esme 188
  • Chapter 14 Ostile o Affascinante? The Trouble with Perpetrators in Dacia Maraini's Voci (1994) and Bnio (1999) / Alex Standen Standen, Alex 205
  • Chapter 15 Remorseless Heroes: Gender, Agency and Violence in Contemporary Crime Fiction and Thrillers / Ulrike Zitzlsperger Zitzlsperger, Ulrike 221.