Hrotsvit of Gandersheim : Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances.

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Hrotsvit's keen awareness of contemporary issues and her determination to provide her readers with a rich variety of exemplary female heroes and acts of personal courage, offer twenty-first-century readers a powerful model of responsibility and agency.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Phyllis
Otros Autores: McMillin, Linda A., Wilson, Katharina, Brown, Phyllis R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Hrotsvitha, > approximately 935-approximately 975 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hrotsvitha, > approximately 935-approximately 975
To 1500
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) > History and criticism.
Christianity and literature > Germany > History > To 1500.
Women and literature > Germany > History > To 1500.
Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne > Histoire et critique.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Christianity and literature
Women and literature
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1. Constructing a Context
  • Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and the Problem of Royal Succession in the East Frankish Kingdom
  • The Index Aequus: Legality and Equity in Hrotsvit's Basilius
  • 'Weighed down with a thousand evils': Images of Muslims in Hrotsvit's Pelagius
  • Section 2. Forming Identities
  • Violence and Virginity in Hrotsvit's Dramas
  • Kids Say the Darndest Things: Irascible Children in Hrotsvit's Sapientia
  • The Construction of the Desiring Subject in Hrotsvit's Pelagius and Agnes
  • Pulchrum Signum? Sexuality and the Politics of Religion in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Composed between 963 and 973
  • Section 3. Creating Affinities
  • Hrotsvit's Dramas: Is There a Roman in These Texts?
  • Hrotsvit's Sapientia as a Foreign Woman
  • Hrotsvit and the Devil
  • Hrotsvit's Latin Drama Gallicanus and the Old English Epic Elene: Intercultural Founding Narratives of a Feminized Church
  • Section 4. Conducting Performances
  • Hrotsvit's Literary Legacy
  • 'Bring me a soldier's garb and a good horse': Embedded Stage Directions in the Dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
  • Dramatic Convergence in Times Square: Hrotsvit's Sapientia and Collapsable Giraffe's 3 Virgins
  • Playing with Hrotsvit: Adventures in Contemporary Performance
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index
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