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Women Writers and National Identityby Stephanie Bird; H. B. Nisbet; Martin Swales; Theodore J. Ziolkowski
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers: Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Duden and Emine Özdamar. This book will be of interest to literary and women's studies scholars as well as Germanists. more...
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach; Cyril Edwards
Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 95.00Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. This book is a new translation of Parzival, together with the fragments of the Titurel, an elegiac offshoot of Parzival, and the nine love-songs attributed to Wolfram. more...
Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writingby Wendy Arons
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00In "Performance and Femininity," Arons examines a series of texts by eighteenth-century German women in order to illuminate how women writers of the time used theater and performance both to investigate female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant cultural discourse of femininity. Arons's study focuses on works featuring heroines who, for the most part— like their authors— lead lives with public dimensions, primarily by working as actresses. The texts she chooses all call attention to the difficulties that the eighteenth-century conception of the self as sincere and antitheatrical presented for women. By highlighting the fact that the social audience that determines a woman's reputation is almost... more...
Titurelby Wolfram von Eschenbach; Helmut Brackert; Stephan Fuchs-Jolie
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2002; US$ 218.00'Titurel', a later offshoot of Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival', can be seen as one of the most enigmatic works in the history of German literature. With its highly complex form, the darkness of its language and imagery, and its fragmentary character, more...
Montierte Texte - hybride Heldenby Lydia Miklautsch
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2005; US$ 118.80Considered by researchers to be typical post-classical adaptations of medieval narratives and of lesser literary value, the poems about the Germanic hero Wolfdietrich are among the best sellers of the Late Middle Ages. The author investigates the reason more...
Lanzeletby Ulrich von Zatzikhoven; Florian Kragl
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 402.30This edition of Ulrich von Zatzikhofens Lanzelet replaces the old edition by Karl August Hahn and thus fulfils a long-felt need in German Medieval Studies. In contrast to Hahns procedure of using the (somewhat sparse) texts to construct a definitive sin more...
Leiden lesenby Katharina Mertens Fleury
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 132.30This study is an analysis of the facets of compassion in Wolfram's Parzival, which was written at the beginning of the thirteenth century. In order to grasp the actual meaning of compassio during this time, the analysis of the epic poem is preceded by add more...
Medieval Literacy and Textuality in Middle High Germanby Annette Volfing
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 85.00This book discusses the treatment of the theme of reading and writing within a major Middle High German Arthurian romance: Albrecht's Jüngerer Titurel. more...
Empathie, Mitleid, Sympathieby Verena Barthel
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 176.00Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm is one of the most-discussed German poetic texts from the High Middle Ages. To date, researchers have been unable to agree how to read this text - as a plea for the ideology of the Crusades, for tolerance or even for humanity. The present study seeks new answers to these important questions by evaluating the text structures predestined to influence the medieval reader or listener in their experience and judgement - when and for whom does the text evoke their empathy, their compassion or even their sympathy? more...
Der Marner - Lieder und Sangsprüche aus dem 13by Eva Willms
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 304.00The edition combines the texts by Der Marner, in his time a highly regarded representative of early Sangspruch poetry, translated and exhaustively commentated, with all documents referring to him and all the texts by 14th to 16th century poets - mostly anonymous - who composed new songs using his melodies and his verses with their own additions. Using this prominent example of a significant part of medieval song composition up to the Reformation, the edition enables the reader to follow poetic processes, literary interests and cultural developments. more...









