The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and LiteratureCambridge University Press, 1999 - 297 頁 In this illustrated historical survey of the image of death in art and literature Karl S. Guthke assesses the significance of the various personifications of death in different ages and cultures, as male or female, enemy or lover, friend or avenger, angel or devil. Guthke shows that such images are reflections of the life and cultures that produced them, and through them he offers astonishing new insights into the nature and perception of the Western self in its cultural, intellectual, and literary context. |
內容
Why this book? | 1 |
IMAGINING THE UNIMAGINABLE DEATH PERSONIFIED Is Death a woman? | 7 |
THE MIDDLE AGES THE UNFORTUNATE FALL The wages of sin Adams sin or Eves? | 36 |
RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE THE DEVIL INCARNATE Death and the Maiden and the man | 80 |
THE ROMANTIC AGE HOW WONDERFUL IS DEATH The youth with the downturned torch The last best friend Death in the bridal chamber | 118 |
Death immortalizing life | 240 |
Notes | 245 |
Select bibliography | 273 |
Index | 278 |
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Adam Alfred Kubin allegorical angel of death art and literature artist Atropos beautiful Berlin Bild vom Tod Bilder und Tänze bride bridegroom century Christ Christian classical copper engraving cultural Dance of Death Danse macabre dead death personified devil dressed Düsseldorf English erotic eroticism etching eternal example Félicien Rops female death figure female figure female personification fresco Freund Hein gender of Death German grammatical gender hand Heppe hourglass ibid Iconography image of death imagination Kozáky Kunst London Maiden male death figure masked ball medieval memento mori Mensch und Tod Middle Ages Moreau Mors Mors syphilitica motif muerte Munich mythology painting Paris personification of death personify death Philippe Ariès PLATE play poem reaper Renaissance representations of death role Schuster scythe seductress sexual shape skeleton skull soul Symbolist Tänze des Todes Thanatos Thema Totentanz tion Totentanz tradition Triumph of Death visual winged woman woodcut young