Brides and Doom : : Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of 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