Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The Experience of Words. A Tribute to Barbara Becker-Cantarino; Luise Gottsched, Freethinker; Schwangerschaft und Geburt in der 'schönen' Literatur. Überlegungenzum Funktionswandel eines Motivs; Dispositive der Macht in Maria Anna Sagers Die verwechselten Töchter (1771) und Karolinens Tagebuch (1774); Recent German Literature: 'Romantic' or 'romantic'?; Transferleistungen: Formen des Traditionsverhaltens bei Paul Fleming; The Gruber Manuscript: Alms, Books and the New World. - Gewalt, Geschlecht und die Kunst der Novelle: Boccaccio, Schiller und KleisThe Desire to Control Death: Heinrich von Kleist's Epistolary Correspondence on Schicksal, Tod and Selbstmord; ""Meine liebe Mutter."" Cyriacus Spangenberg and his Treatise on ""WeiberAdel"" (1591); Revampi Frank Wedekind's Prostitutes. A Liberating Re-Creationor Male Recreation?; Die Schäferliteratur und die Frauen; Journeys Across Continents -- Writing Across Borders. From Europeto Africa -- from Africa to Europe. - Living in the Moment, Reflecting on the Past: Exploring Loss, Language, and Identity in Martina Hefter's Zurück auf Los and Die Küsten der BergeEingemauert: Helga Schütz, Grenze zum gestrigen Tag; ""Mit der Wende Kam der Appetit"": Work, Food, and Gender in Terézia Mora's Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent; Körper, Gender, Eulenspiegel; Publications by Barbara Becker-Cantarino; Index of Names This volume of original essays celebrates Barbara Becker-Cantarino, whose prolific publications on German literary culture from 1600 to the twentieth century are major milestones in the field of German cultural studies. The range of topics in the collection reflects the breadth of Becker-Cantarino's scholarship. Examining literature from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the contributors explore the intersections of gender, race, and genre, history and gender, and gender and violence. They provide fresh readings of the works of known and lesser-known writers, including Cyriacus Span
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