Melusine's footprint : : tracing the legacy of a medieval myth / / edited by Misty Urban, Deva F. Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes.
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 traditi...
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| Superior document: | Explorations in medieval culture |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Explorations in Medieval Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 437 pages) :; color illustrations, photographs. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Bodies and Texts: Mapping Melusine in Art and Print
- The Tail of Melusine: Hybridity, Mutability, and the Accessible Other / Frederika Bain
- Polycorporality and Heteromorphia: Untangling Melusine's Mixed Bodies / Ana Pairet
- Mermaid, Mother, Monster, and More: Portraits of the Fairy Woman in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Melusine Narratives / Caroline Prud'Homme
- The Melusine Figure in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Literature and Art: Cultural-Historical Information within the Pictorial Program / Albrecht Classen
- The Alchemical Transformation of Melusine / Melissa Ridley Elmes
- Mother, Muse: Melusine and Political Identity
- Architecture and Empire in Historia de la linda Melosina / Anna Casas Aguilar
- The Lady with the Serpent's Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine / Lydia Zeldenrust
- Matriarchs and Mother Tongues: The Middle English Romans of Partenay / Jennifer Alberghini
- Melusine and Luxembourg: A Double Memory / Pit Péporté
- Theoretical Transformations: Readings and Refigurations
- Youth and Rebellion in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine / Stacey L. Hahn
- The Promise of (Un)Happiness in Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine / Simone Pfleger
- Half Lady, Half Serpent: Melusine's Monstrous Body and the Discourse of Romance / Angela Jane Weisl
- Passing as a "Humayn Woman": Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine / Chera A. Cole
- Melusine and Purgatorial Punishment: The Changing Nature of Fays / Zoë Enstone
- Metamorphoses of Snake Women: Melusine and Madam White / Zifeng Zhao
- Melusines Medieval to Modern
- Goethe and Die neue Melusine: A Critical Reinterpretation / Renata Schellenberg
- "Listening Down the Hall": An Epistemological Consideration of the Encounter with Melusine in the Germanic Literary Tradition / Deva F. Kemmis
- Woman, Abject, Animal: Refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and EXPORT / Anna-Lisa Baumeister
- How the Dragon Ate the Woman: The Fate of Melusine in English / Misty Urban
- Melusines Past, Present, and Future: An Afterword / Tania M. Colwell.