Poetry and parental bereavement in early modern Lutheran Germany /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Linton, Anna, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2008.
Colección:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Temas:
1500-1700
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.
Poésie élégiaque allemande > Histoire et critique.
Littérature allemande > Auteurs luthériens > Histoire et critique.
Deuil > Coutumes > Allemagne > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Deuil > Allemagne > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Consolation > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Enfants > Mort > Aspect psychologique.
POETRY > Continental European.
Bereavement
Children > Death > Psychological aspects
Consolation
Elegiac poetry, German
German poetry > Early modern
Mourning customs
Occasional verse, German
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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