Reading Medieval European Women Writers: Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past

ISBN-13: 9783631674079 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 430 str.

Albrecht Classen

Opis

Bringing together representative poets from Germany, England, France, Spain, Hungary, and Austria, this title offers a critical reading of texts by female poets/writers which demonstrate that women all over Europe in the premodern era enjoyed considerable freedom to express themselves and to contribute to the literary discourse of their time.

Recenzje

«Es ist [...] zu wünschen, dass dieses wichtige Buch eine große Verbreitung erfährt und seine Funktion nicht nur als neues Standardwerk zum Thema erfüllt, sondern auch darüber hinaus ein neues Literaturverständnis begründet.»
(Bea Lundt, Mediaevisitik 29/2016)

Spis treści

Contents: Medieval European women writers - Hrotsvit of Gandersheim - Marie de France - Christine de Pizan - Julian of Norwich - Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken - Eleonore of Austria - Helene Kottaner(in) - Leonor López de Córdoba - Marguerite de Navarre.

O autorze

Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, researching and teaching European literature from ca. 800 to ca. 1800. In his more than 80 scholarly books and more than 600 articles he has focused on the history of mentality, gender studies, xenology, comparative literature, ecocriticism, and cultural history. He is the editor of Mediaevistik. He edited the Handbook of Medieval Studies as well as the Handbook of Medieval Culture. Recently his The Forest in Medieval German Literature appeared in print.