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Format: 112 S.

Note: Zugl.: Zürich, Univ., Diss., 1889

Language: German

Subjects: German Studies

Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift

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Format: 112 S. 8"

Note: @Zürich, Phil. Diss. 1889

Language: Undetermined

Author information: Ziely, Wilhelm 1470-1542

Author information: Thüring von Ringoltingen 1415-1483

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Format: X, 243 S. , Ill , 23 cm

ISBN: 9780739195185 , 9780739195208

Series Statement: Ecocritical theory and practice

Content: By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflictual situations or in refuge. By probing the way the individual authors dealt with the forest, illustrating how their characters fared in this sylvan space, the role of the forest proved to be of supreme importance in understanding the fundamental relationship between humans and nature. The medieval forest almost always introduced an epistemological challenge: how to cope in life, or how to find one's way in this natural maze. By approaching these narratives through modern ecocritical issues that are paired with premodern perspectives, we gain a solid and far-reaching understanding of how medieval concepts can aid in a better understanding of human society and nature in its historical context. This book revisits some of the best and lesser known examples of medieval German literature, and the critical approach used here will allow us to recognize the importance of medieval literature for a profound reassessment of our modern existence with respect to our own forests. --

Content: By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflictual situations or in refuge. By probing the way the individual authors dealt with the forest, illustrating how their characters fared in this sylvan space, the role of the forest proved to be of supreme importance in understanding the fundamental relationship between humans and nature. The medieval forest almost always introduced an epistemological challenge: how to cope in life, or how to find one's way in this natural maze. By approaching these narratives through modern ecocritical issues that are paired with premodern perspectives, we gain a solid and far-reaching understanding of how medieval concepts can aid in a better understanding of human society and nature in its historical context. This book revisits some of the best and lesser known examples of medieval German literature, and the critical approach used here will allow us to recognize the importance of medieval literature for a profound reassessment of our modern existence with respect to our own forests. --

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction and theoretical reflections: the Forest as an epistemological challenge in the Middle AgesChapter One: Hartmann von Aue's concept of the Forest: the Arthurian adventure in the Forest and the consequences -- Chapter Two: the Forest as staging ground for the heroic protagonist: glory and demise in the Nibelungenlied -- Chapter Three: the Forest in Wolfram von Eschenbach's works: the passage from the Arthurian court to the Grail Kingdom through the Forest -- Chapter Four: the Forest in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan and in alternative Tristan versions -- Chapter Five: the Forest in der Melerantz von Frankreich by the Pleier -- Chapter Six: the Forest as the transitional and transformative space in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier und Meliur -- Chapter Seven: the ambivalence of the Forest: exile or safe haven? the destiny of the female protagonist refracted in the Forest: Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken's Königin Sibille -- Chapter Eight: Forest in Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine: dark spaces, mysterious origins, meaningful connections: the Forest and the establishment of dynasties -- Epilogue -- Bibliography.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780739195192

Language: English

Subjects: History , German Studies

Keywords: Deutsch ; Literatur ; Wald ; Geschichte 1170-1500 ; Deutsch ; Literatur ; Wald ; Geschichte 1170-1500

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author information: Classen, Albrecht 1956-

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Format: 1 online resource (xiv, 437 pages) : , color illustrations, photographs.

ISBN: 90-04-35595-2

Series Statement: Explorations in medieval culture

Content: In Melusine's Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth , editors Misty Urban, Deva Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes offer an invigorating international and interdisciplinary examination of the legendary fairy Melusine. Along with fresh insights into the popular French and German traditions, these essays investigate Melusine's English, Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese counterparts and explore her roots in philosophy, folklore, and classical myth. Combining approaches from art history, history, alchemy, literature, cultural studies, and medievalism, applying rigorous critical lenses ranging from feminism and comparative literature to film and monster theory, this volume brings Melusine scholarship into the twenty-first century with twenty lively and evocative essays that reassess this powerful figure's multiple meanings and illuminate her dynamic resonances across cultures and time. Contributors are Anna Casas Aguilar, Jennifer Alberghini, Frederika Bain, Anna-Lisa Baumeister, Albrecht Classen, Chera A. Cole, Tania M. Colwell, Zoë Enstone, Stacey L. Hahn, Deva F. Kemmis, Ana Pairet, Pit Péporté, Simone Pfleger, Caroline Prud'Homme, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Renata Schellenberg, Misty Urban, Angela Jane Weisl, Lydia Zeldenrust, and Zifeng Zhao.

Note: Introduction -- , Bodies and Texts: Mapping Melusine in Art and Print -- , The Tail of Melusine: Hybridity, Mutability, and the Accessible Other / , Polycorporality and Heteromorphia: Untangling Melusine's Mixed Bodies / , Mermaid, Mother, Monster, and More: Portraits of the Fairy Woman in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Melusine Narratives / , The Melusine Figure in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Literature and Art: Cultural-Historical Information within the Pictorial Program / , The Alchemical Transformation of Melusine / , Mother, Muse: Melusine and Political Identity -- , Architecture and Empire in Historia de la linda Melosina / , The Lady with the Serpent's Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine / , Matriarchs and Mother Tongues: The Middle English Romans of Partenay / , Melusine and Luxembourg: A Double Memory / , Theoretical Transformations: Readings and Refigurations -- , Youth and Rebellion in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine / , The Promise of (Un)Happiness in Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine / , Half Lady, Half Serpent: Melusine's Monstrous Body and the Discourse of Romance / , Passing as a "Humayn Woman": Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine / , Melusine and Purgatorial Punishment: The Changing Nature of Fays / , Metamorphoses of Snake Women: Melusine and Madam White / , Melusines Medieval to Modern -- , Goethe and Die neue Melusine: A Critical Reinterpretation / , "Listening Down the Hall": An Epistemological Consideration of the Encounter with Melusine in the Germanic Literary Tradition / , Woman, Abject, Animal: Refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and EXPORT / , How the Dragon Ate the Woman: The Fate of Melusine in English / , Melusines Past, Present, and Future: An Afterword /

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-04-31508-X

Language: English

Keywords: Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc.