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Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature (Paperback)
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Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature (Paperback)

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Paperback 253 Pages / Published: 31/12/1996
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Synopsis
Medieval German fiction contains many dialogues between mothers and daughters and numerous plots about their relationships, although this pattern has not been widely noted in existing scholarship. Even though the authors of these works are either male or anonymous, literature with mother-daughter motifs reveals much about the contradictions of social and sexual conflicts in medieval society. Ann Marie Rasmussen has focused on selected fictional texts in order to examine the wider implications of the mother-daughter theme as a literary and cultural paradigm. She explores each work in its historical context as a literary and cultural system deploying stereotypical representations of mothers and daughters in specific ways and for specific purposes. By examining works from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. Rasmussen charts the use made of mother-daughter stereotypes in light of historical change: the emergence of patrilineal kinship organization among the nobility, the problems attending noblewomen's exercise of political power, and the shifting contradictions between sexuality and honor in representations of common women.

Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815603894
Number of pages: 253
Weight: 381 g
Dimensions: 237 x 161 x 27 mm

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