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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797127003321

Autore

Classen Albrecht

Titolo

The forest in medieval German literature : Ecocritical readings from a historical perspective / / Albrecht Classen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-9519-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Disciplina

830.9/002

Soggetti

German literature - Middle High German, 1050-1500 - History and criticism

Forests in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction and Theoretical Reflections; 1 Hartmann von Aue's Concept of the Forest; 2 The Forest as Staging Ground for the Heroic Protagonist; 3 The Forest in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Works; 4 The Forest in Gottfried von Straßburg's Tristan and in Alternative Tristan Versions; 5 The Forest in Der Melerantz von Frankreich by The Pleier; 6 The Forest as the Transitional and Transformative Space in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier und Meliur; 7 The Ambivalence of the Forest: Exile or Safe Haven?; 8 Forest in Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine; Epilogue

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Forest in Medieval German Literature </span><span>analyzes the topic of the "forest" through some of the best and lesser known examples of medieval German literature, approaching them through modern ecocritical issues that are paired with premodern perspectives. This study allows us to understand how much medieval concepts of the forest can aid in a better understanding of human society and nature in its historical context.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>