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Engaging moments : the origins of medieval bridal-quest narrative / by Claudia Bornholdt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bornholdt, Claudia.
- Series:
- Erganzungsbande zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde ; Bd. 46
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brides in literature.
- Courtship in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Germanic literature--History and criticism.
- Germanic literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Medieval bridal-quest narrative
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : W de Gruyter, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In diesem Buch werden erstmals die frühesten westgermanischen Brautwerbungserzählungen gesammelt und vergleichend untersucht. Abweichend von früheren Studien lokalisiert die Autorin den Ursprung dieser Erzähltradition in der mündlichen und schriftlichen germanischen Dichtungstradition; ein Resultat, das zu einer Neubewertung der Genese der volksprachigen deutschen und skandinavischen Dichtung führt. Die Kapitel widmen sich in chronologischer Reihenfolge den lateinischen Chroniken der germanischen Völker sowie der frühen lateinischen und volkssprachigen Literatur Deutschlands und Skandinaviens.
- This book presents the first collection of the earliest West Germanic bridal-quest narratives together with a comparative study of them. In contrast to earlier studies, the author locates the origin of this narrative tradition in the oral and written Germanic literary tradition, a result that leads to a re-assessment of the genesis of vernacular German and Scandinavian literature. The chapters deal in chronological order with the Latin chronicles of the Germanic peoples and with the early Latin and vernacular literature in Germany and Scandinavia.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Wooers in Disguise
- Chapter 2. Walter Elopes With Hiltgunt
- Chapter 3. Catching Her Eye
- Chapter 4. Anchors Aweigh
- Chapter 5. Norse Nuptuals
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Bloomington.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236).
- ISBN:
- 9783110911152
- 3110911159
- OCLC:
- 649883380
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