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1 online resource (xiv, 437 pages) |
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Explorations in medieval culture |
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Explorations in medieval culture.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Bodies and Texts: Mapping Melusine in Art and Print -- 1. The Tail of Melusine: Hybridity, Mutability, and the Accessible Other / Frederika Bain -- 2. Polycorporality and Heteromorphia: Untangling Melusine's Mixed Bodies / Ana Pairet -- 3. Mermaid, Mother, Monster, and More: Portraits of the Fairy Woman in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Melusine Narratives / Caroline Prud'Homme -- 4. The Melusine Figure in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Literature and Art: Cultural-Historical Information within the Pictorial Program / Albrecht Classen -- 5. The Alchemical Transformation of Melusine / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- pt. II Mother, Muse: Melusine and Political Identity -- 6. Architecture and Empire in Historia de la linda Melosina / Anna Casas Aguilar -- 7. The Lady with the Serpent's Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine / Lydia Zeldenrust -- 8. Matriarchs and Mother Tongues: The Middle English Romans of Partenay / Jennifer Alberghini |
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Note continued: 9. Melusine and Luxembourg: A Double Memory / Pit Peporte -- pt. III Theoretical Transformations: Readings and Refigurations -- 10. Youth and Rebellion in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Melusine / Stacey L. Hahn -- 11. The Promise of (Un)Happiness in Thuring von Ringoltingen's Melusine / Simone Pfleger -- 12. Half Lady, Half Serpent: Melusine's Monstrous Body and the Discourse of Romance / Angela Jane Weisl -- 13. Passing as a "Humayn Woman": Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine / Chera A. Cole -- 14. Melusine and Purgatorial Punishment: The Changing Nature of Fays / Zoe Enstone -- 15. Metamorphoses of Snake Women: Melusine and Madam White / Zifeng Zhao -- pt. IV Melusines Medieval to Modern -- 16. Goethe and Die neue Melusine: A Critical Reinterpretation / Renata Schellenberg -- 17."Listening Down the Hall": An Epistemological Consideration of the Encounter with Melusine in the Germanic Literary Tradition / Deva F. Kemmis |
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Note continued: 18. Woman, Abject, Animal: Refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and export / Anna-Lisa Baumeister -- 19. How the Dragon Ate the Woman: The Fate of Melusine in English / Misty Urban -- 20. Melusines Past, Present, and Future: An Afterword / Tania M. Colwell |
| Summary |
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 traditions, these essays investigate Melusine?s English, Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese counterparts and explore her roots in philosophy, folklore, and classical myth.0Combining approaches from art history, history, alchemy, literature, culture, and medievalism, applying rigorous critical lenses ranging from feminism and comparative literature to film and monster studies, this volume brings Melusine scholarship into the twenty-first century with nineteen lively and evocative essays that reassess this powerful figure?s multiple meanings and illuminate her dynamic resonances across cultures and time |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Melusine (Legendary character) in literature.
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Melusine (Legendary character)
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Women in literature.
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Mythology in literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature, Medieval
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Melusine (Legendary character)
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Melusine (Legendary character) in literature
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Mythology in literature
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Urban, Misty, editor.
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Kemmis, Deva F., editor
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Elmes, Melissa Ridley, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004355958 |
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9004355952 |
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