Albrecht Classen

Water in Medieval Literature

An Ecocritical Reading

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.

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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9781498539845
• ISBN-10: 149853984X
• Artikelnr.: 48692933

Autorenporträt

Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Theoretical
Methodological
and Interdisciplinary Reflections Chapter One - Water
Literature
Symbolism
and Epistemology in the Pre-Modern Age: A Pan-European Perspective Chapter Two - Water and Voyages in the Goliardic Epic Poem of Herzog Ernst: Transformation and Maturation through Travel into the Mysterious Orient Chapter Three - The Experience with Water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: Spiritual Epistemology in the Western Seas Chapter Four - Water Worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: The Search for Happiness in a Fluid World Chapter Five - Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: The Religious Transformation Through Water Chapter Six - Water Symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: The Material and the Spiritual Dimension of Water in a Middle High German Grail Romance Chapter Seven -Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical The Flowing Light of the Divinity: Spirituality
Liquidity
and Epistemology Chapter Eight - Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1351): Narrative Explorations of Tears
Water in Fountains
Wells
and in the Mediterranean Chapter Nine - Water as Markers of Identity
Space
and Time in the Icelandic Saga Njal's Saga: Travel
War
and Water in the World of Old Norse Literature Chapter Ten - Water Creatures
Wells
the Other Life
Hybridity
and the Aquatic: The Myth of Melusine in the Verse Romance by Jean d'Arras Chapter Eleven - Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron and other Problems with Water: Flooding
Voyaging
Sexual Violence
and Refuge Epilogue