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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465361403321

Autore

Linton Anna <1975->

Titolo

Poetry and parental bereavement in early modern Lutheran Germany [[electronic resource] /] / Anna Linton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-51519-1

9786611515195

0-19-155277-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

831/.5093548

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-306) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Conventions; Introduction; 1. Lutheran consolation for bereaved parents; A brief history of Lutheran consolation; Parental love and loss; The medical model of consolation; Mourning conventions and consolation arguments; The duty of consolation; 2. The purposes of poetry; Poetry and society; 3. Models and metaphors for Lutheran funeral poetry; 4. Death and didacticism; 5. Brides of Christ and heavenly soldiers: imagery in funeral verse; Seasonal imagery and the metaphor 'children are plants'; Representations of death; Life as a journey

Name-, age-, and gender-specific images6. Paul Fleming and Margarethe Susanna von Kuntsch; Paul Fleming; Margarethe Susanna



von Kuntsch; Conclusion; Biographies of poets and authors; Funeral booklets and occasional poems for the children cited; Bibliography; Reference works; Classical and patristic texts; Primary sources; Secondary literature; Index of Bible verses; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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.