Reviews for Studien zur Tradierung der weltlichen mittelhochdeutschen Epik im 15. und beginnenden 16. Jahrhundert

The average rating for Studien zur Tradierung der weltlichen mittelhochdeutschen Epik im 15. und beginnenden 16. Jahrhundert based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-01-12 00:00:00 Karl Laage I chose this book for its provocative title, hoping for insights into medieval womanhood - but it is actually a work of literary criticism, dealing with both the medieval texts themselves from a feminist perspective and the historically patriarchal scholarship about them. The author is clearly interested in language and the history of language, which serves as a warning that you will be dealing with someone who uses language densely and precisely, and at times it's quite slow reading. (For example, a fondness for compounding prefixes, "It is neither in- nor destructive". Stuff like that, not your normal reading.) Still, I greatly enjoyed revisiting the texts from a modern critical point of view, something I haven't done much with the medieval romances I've read.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-07-19 00:00:00 Nancy Rosborough Really great help when I was trying to outline the criteria for an epic in my nonthesis.