Brides and Doom

Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic

• Author(s): Jerold C. Frakes,
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Pages: 290
• ISBN_10: 0812232895
  ISBN_13: 9780812232899
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Collections / Medieval , Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Literary Criticism / Medieval , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity , Poetry / European / General , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory ,

Description:... Examines gender issues that appear in the heroic epics Nibelungenlied, Diu Dlage, and Kudrun, all of which revolve around women. Reviews the conventional scholarship, and discusses property and power, intimate conversations and political strategies, Teuton as Amazon, sovereignty and class, and other topics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR