Melusine's Footprint

Melusine's Footprint

Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth

Kemmis, Deva; Urban, Misty; Ridley Elmes, Melissa

Brill

11/2017

438

Dura

Inglês

9789004315082

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part I. Bodies and Texts: Mapping Melusine in Art and Print 1 The Tail of Melusine: Hybridity, Mutability, and the Accessible Other Frederika Bain 2 Polycorporality and Heteromorphia: Untangling Melusine's Mixed Bodies Ana Pairet 3 Mermaid, Mother, Monster, and More: Portraits of the Fairy Woman in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Melusine Narratives Caroline Prud'Homme 4 The Melusine Figure in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Literature and Art: Cultural-Historical Information within the Pictorial Program Albrecht Classen 5 The Alchemical Transformation of Melusine Melissa Ridley Elmes Part II. Mother, Muse: Melusine and Political Identity 6 Architecture and Empire in Historia de la linda Melosina Anna Casas Aguilar 7 The Lady with the Serpent's Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine Lydia Zeldenrust 8 Matriarchs and Mother Tongues: The Middle English Romans of Partenay Jennifer Alberghini 9 Melusine and Luxembourg: A Double Memory Pit Peporte Part III. Theoretical Transformations: Readings and Refigurations 10 Youth and Rebellion in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Melusine Stacey L. Hahn 11 The Promise of (Un)Happiness in Thuring von Ringoltingen's Melusine Simone Pfleger 12 Half Lady, Half Serpent: Melusine's Monstrous Body and the Discourse of Romance Angela Jane Weisl 13 Passing as a "Humayn Woman": Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine Chera A. Cole 14 Melusine and Purgatorial Punishment: The Changing Nature of Fays Zoe Enstone 15 Metamorphoses of Snake Women: Melusine and Madam White Zifeng Zhao Part IV. Melusines Medieval to Modern 16 Goethe and Die neue Melusine: A Critical Reinterpretation Renata Schellenberg 17 "Listening Down the Hall": An Epistemological Consideration of the Encounter with Melusine in the Germanic Literary Tradition Deva F. Kemmis 18 Woman, Abject, Animal: Refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and EXPORT Anna-Lisa Baumeister 19 How the Dragon Ate the Woman: The Fate of Melusine in English Misty Urban 20 Melusines Past, Present, and Future: An Afterword Tania M. Colwell Selected Bibliography Index
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