Engaging Moments: The Origins of Medieval Bridal-Quest Narrative

Claudia Bornholdt

Published by De Gruyter 2005

Engaging Moments

The Origins of Medieval Bridal-Quest Narrative

Claudia Bornholdt

Volume 46 in the series Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911152

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About this book

This book presents the first collection of the earliest West Germanic bridal-quest narratives together with a comparative study of them. In contrast to earlier studies, the author locates the origin of this narrative tradition in the oral and written Germanic literary tradition, a result that leads to a re-assessment of the genesis of vernacular German and Scandinavian literature. The chapters deal in chronological order with the Latin chronicles of the Germanic peoples and with the early Latin and vernacular literature in Germany and Scandinavia.

Author / Editor information

Claudia Bornholdt is Assistant Professor of medieval German and Scandinavian Literature in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reviews

"Through her sound scholarship, dept interpretion, and cogent argumentation, she has contributed significantly to medieval narratology."
Rosemarie Thee Morewedge in: Journal of English and Germnaic Philology 1/2008

"The author is to be congratulated on revisiting older theories on the development and origin of bridal quest narratives with a keen eye for nuance in a wide array of medieval texts and for ideological tendencies and lacunae in scholary interpretations of the late nineteenth and twentieth century."
Ulrike Wiethaus in: Colloquia Germanica 1/2007

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars; Institutes; Academic Departments
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 236
Keywords: Mittelalter/Literatur, Literaturgeschichte; Motiv (Literatur); Germanische Völker/Literatur, Literaturgeschichte; Brautsuche

eBook

Published: February 13, 2012
ISBN: 9783110911152

Hardcover

Published: April 18, 2005
ISBN: 9783110184501