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Author Linton, Anna, 1975-

Title Poetry and parental bereavement in early modern Lutheran Germany / Anna Linton
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages)
Series Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Contents Lutheran consolation for bereaved parents -- Purposes of poetry -- Models and metaphors for Lutheran funeral poetry -- Death and didacticism -- Brides of Christ and heavenly soldiers: imagery in funeral verse -- Paul Fleming and Margarethe Susanna von Kuntsch
Summary This study of Lutheran funeral booklets - verse written to console bereaved parents - adds to our understanding of the genre, which has not been fully explored as literature or for what it reveals about the depiction of children or parent-child relationships in early modern Europe
Notes Based on the author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-306) and index
Notes English
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Subject German poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Elegiac poetry, German -- History and criticism
German literature -- Lutheran authors -- History and criticism
Mourning customs -- Germany -- History -- 16th century
Bereavement -- Germany -- History -- 16th century
Consolation -- History -- 16th century
Occasional verse, German -- History and criticism
Children -- Death -- Psychological aspects
POETRY -- Continental European.
Bereavement.
Children -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Consolation.
Elegiac poetry, German.
German poetry -- Early modern.
Mourning customs.
Occasional verse, German.
Germany.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
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