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Autore |
Linton Anna <1975-> |
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Titolo |
Poetry and parental bereavement in early modern Lutheran Germany [[electronic resource] /] / Anna Linton |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2008 |
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1-281-51519-1 |
9786611515195 |
0-19-155277-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2002. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-306) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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