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Brides and Doom : Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic / Jerold C. Frakes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780812232899
  • 9781512816051
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 831/.03209352042
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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, and sociological interpretations, informed by a broad range of contemporary feminist scholarship.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512816051

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

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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, and sociological interpretations, informed by a broad range of contemporary feminist scholarship.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)