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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Frakes, Jerold C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512816051; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512816051
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jerold C. Frakes.

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.