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Brides and doom : gender, property, and power in medieval German women's epic / Jerold C. Frakes.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frakes, Jerold C., author.
- Series:
- The Middle Ages
- The Middle Ages Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, German--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, German.
- German poetry--Middle High German, 1050-1500--History and criticism.
- German poetry.
- Women--Germany--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Women.
- Feminism and literature--Germany--History.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature--Germany--History.
- Women and literature.
- Power (Social sciences) in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Property in literature.
- Feminism and literature--Germany--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature--Germany--History--To 1500.
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
- Women--Germany--History--To 1500--Germany.
- Feminism and literature--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature--History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1994]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jerold C. Frakes approaches the Nibelungenlied, the Klage, and the Kudrun, epic poems central to the Middle High German tradition, through a set of literary, economic, ad sociological interpretations, informed by a broad range of contemporary feminist scholarship.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)
- ISBN:
- 9781512816051
- 1512816051
- 9780585199771
- 0585199779
- OCLC:
- 1024015711
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