Papers by Ann Marie Rasmussen
Boydell & Brewer, Sep 1, 2012
Was ist eine Gabe? Löschen Tauschcharakter und Reziprozität die Gabe aus? Gibt es eine Gabe, die ... more Was ist eine Gabe? Löschen Tauschcharakter und Reziprozität die Gabe aus? Gibt es eine Gabe, die nicht erwidert werden will? Gibt es einen Überschuss des Gebens über die Gabe hinaus? Der Band untersucht solche und benachbarte Fragen, die aus den einschlägigen Theoriediskussionen bekannt sind, an literarischen Modellierungen von Liebesgaben in vormodernen Texten. Im Liebesdiskurs, so scheint es, können Gaben einen besonders prekären Status erhalten: kann hier doch eine Tausch-, Substitutions- und Vergeltungslogik zur Anwendung kommen auf das, was gemeinhin als inkommensurabel gilt – die Liebe. Zugleich sind Liebesgaben in vormoderner Literatur von hoher Relevanz für poetologische und narratologische Fragestellungen: Ihre literarische Modellierung kann zum 'mise en abyme' werden, zum Rückverweis des poetischen Textes auf sich selbst; Liebesgaben-Entwürfe werden ferner vielfach zu zentralen Brennpunkten und Schaltstellen narrativer Strukturen und Dynamiken. Die Beiträge gehen auf zwei Tagungen zu Liebesgaben in der lateinischen, deutschen, englischen und italienischen Literatur der Vormoderne zurück, die einander mit unterschiedlichen Akzentsetzungen ergänzten; dies spiegelt sich in der zweiteiligen Anlage des Bandes, der sich im ersten Teil kommunikativen, semiotischen und performativen Aspekten und im zweiten Teil narratologischen und poetologischen Dimensionen der Liebesgabe widmet.
University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2001
List of Abbreviations Introduction -Anne L. Klinck Chapter 1 Sappho and Her Daughters: Some Paral... more List of Abbreviations Introduction -Anne L. Klinck Chapter 1 Sappho and Her Daughters: Some Parallels Between Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song -Anne L. Klinck Chapter 2 Ides geomrode giddum: The Old English Female Lament -Pat Belanoff Chapter 3 Women's Performance of the Lyric Before 1500 -Susan Boynton Chapter 4 Ca no soe joglaresa: Women and Music in Medieval Spain's Three Cultures -Judith R. Cohen Chapter 5 Feminine Voices in the Galician-Portuguese cantigas de amigo -Esther Corral Chapter 6 Sewing like a Girl: Working Women in the chansons de toile -E. Jane Burns Chapter 7 Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours -Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner Chapter 8 The Conception of Female Roles in the Woman's Song of Reinmar and the Comtessa de Dia -Ingrid Kasten Chapter 9 Reason and the Female Voice in Walther von der Vogelweide's Poetry -Ann Marie Rasmussen Chapter 10 Ventriloquisms: When Maidens Speak in English Songs, c. 1300-1550Judith M. Bennett Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Apr 1, 2009
Parzival’s visit in Jeschute’s tent, for example, is cited under slightly different perspectives ... more Parzival’s visit in Jeschute’s tent, for example, is cited under slightly different perspectives in no less than ten different subsections. One consequence of this organizational model is a remarkable number of intratextual citations in which Trînca refers to various sections in her study. Trînca digresses at times to address issues which are neither entirely persuasive, as presented, nor in most cases relevant to her central argument. These distractions include the issue of dating Parzival Books I & II, Wolfram’s introduction of the tauige Rose metaphor into Middle High German literature, an implicit poetological challenge against Horace, and Wolfram’s reflection of Hartmann’s Êrec and Iwein. Since the bibliography and review of research focus on the “Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte” (p. 23), there may be questions about familiarity with literature bearing materially on Trînca’s arguments. Given the space devoted to the terminology and customs of hunting, for example, the absence of any reference to basic works like David Dalby’s Lexicon of the Mediæval German Hunt (1965) is noteworthy. Careful reading and explication of several passages and themes from Wolfram’s works represent the major strength of the study. These readings include valuable insights into Ither’s slaying as the culmination of, and counterpoint to, the hunting context established for Parzival in Soltâne, issues of textuality, and, not least, Wolfram’s narrative perspective. The fact that Wolfram explicitly calls attention to his role and method as poet/ narrator is well enough established to locate Trînca’s dissertation profitably within the larger context of scholarship documenting Wolfram’s ingenuity, idiosyncracy, and, not least, unconventional use of language. In that respect, and despite reservations about the study’s ambitious and ultimately not fully realized scope, Trînca has made a positive contribution to Wolfram scholarship in particular and to scholarship on Middle High German poetics in general. Siegfried Christoph University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Medieval feminist newsletter, Sep 1, 1996
runway she said, "let's keep talking, start a newsletter or something"-all tossed out as she rush... more runway she said, "let's keep talking, start a newsletter or something"-all tossed out as she rushed down the runway. Subsequently I sent out a call for interest and put the first newsletter together in the spring of 1986 with 79 names. I think it is worth mentioning that without Jane Chance's enthusiasm, MFN might never have gotten off the ground-Jane listened to us talk and then urged Otto Griindler to give us a chance. Once our first sessions took place everyone saw the need for more sessions and it was smooth sailing, but it took Jane's support and Otto's openness to make it possible.
Bamberger interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien, 2013
Alles Scheiße-oder was? Vorkommen und Funktion von Exkrementen in literarischen Texten der Frühen... more Alles Scheiße-oder was? Vorkommen und Funktion von Exkrementen in literarischen Texten der Frühen Neuzeit Spurensuche Gewiss, das Thema ist anrüchig, sehr sogar, und noch vor wenigen Jahrzehnten wären es ein ziemlicher Tabu-und mithin wohl auch ein Karrierebruch gewesen, es in der Öffentlichkeit zu thematisieren, selbst in der Wissenschaft. 1 Das zeigt sich nicht zuletzt in älteren Literaturgeschichten, wenn man sie etwa unter dem Stichwort ‚Eulenspiegel' durchsieht. So rechtfertigt Wilhelm Scherer "die Macht der Roheit" mit dem seiner Meinung nach übergeordneten Prinzip "der überlegene[n] Bauernschläue", die sich hier selbst "ein unvergängliches Denkmal gesetzt" habe, 2 und Josef Nadler kennt sogar den Grund, weshalb im ‚Eulenspiegel' manchmal so drastisch formuliert wird: 1 Meines Wissens hat sich erstmals Albert GIER diesem Themenkomplex angenähert, wenn auch ganz vorsichtig (Albert GIER: Skatologische Komik in der französischen Literatur des Mittelalters. In: Wolfram-Studien Bd. VII. Hrsg. von Werner Schröder. Berlin 1982, S. 154-183). Sein ursprünglicher Plan, einen Überblick über alle skatologischen Texte der alt-und mittelfranzösischen Literatur zu geben, scheitert jedoch "angesichts des Umfangs und der Verschiedenartigkeit des Materials" (S. 154), weshalb er sich "auf einige besonders interessante Beispiele" konzentriert. Allerdings war das zu erwarten, denn das Problem verliert viel von seiner Brisanz, wenn man es auf das Element der Komik eingrenzt. Inzwischen hat sich eine Menge geändert. Im Zeitmagazin 44 vom 27.10.2011 listet Harald MARTENSTEIN (Über unflätige Buchtitel: ›Dieses Wort. Es gilt jetzt als mutig, originell, provokativ‹, S.
Boydell & Brewer, Mar 1, 2016
This essay discusses the late medieval extended family of saints known as The Holy Kinship (Saint... more This essay discusses the late medieval extended family of saints known as The Holy Kinship (Saint Anne, her three daughters, and their offspring) as a way of thinking about the constructed and changing nature of family and kinship relations and about normative constructions of gender. Focussing also on the appearance of babies and books in many images of the Holy Kinship, it discusses the ideal of the learned woman in late medieval, Northern Europe, referencing a short text known as "The Twenty-One-Year-Old Woman."
Medieval Feminist Forum, 2003
Julian of Norwich is also briefly mentioned on p. 728. I could find no mention of Catherine of Ge... more Julian of Norwich is also briefly mentioned on p. 728. I could find no mention of Catherine of Genoa and the index was no help in this respect. The fourth and "missing" woman from this volume was Hildegard of Bingen. 3 For a consideration of the various debates surrounding women's status in fourteenth-century England,
The Mediaeval Journal, 2018
Produced in the high and lateMiddle Ages, badges are small, brooch-like objects with images, prod... more Produced in the high and lateMiddle Ages, badges are small, brooch-like objects with images, produced and worn for others to see, read, and interpret.The hypothesis tying together the articles in t...
runway she said, "let's keep talking, start a newsletter or something"-all tossed out as she rush... more runway she said, "let's keep talking, start a newsletter or something"-all tossed out as she rushed down the runway. Subsequently I sent out a call for interest and put the first newsletter together in the spring of 1986 with 79 names. I think it is worth mentioning that without Jane Chance's enthusiasm, MFN might never have gotten off the ground-Jane listened to us talk and then urged Otto Griindler to give us a chance. Once our first sessions took place everyone saw the need for more sessions and it was smooth sailing, but it took Jane's support and Otto's openness to make it possible.
… to Gottfried von Strassburg's" Tristan, 2003
... him. Princess Isolde, Tristan's Lover This essay has already said much indirectly about ... more ... him. Princess Isolde, Tristan's Lover This essay has already said much indirectly about the heroine, Isolde. She enters ... death. Tristan must flee Cornwall and the lovers will see one another only intermittently until their deaths. As Stephen ...
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