Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2407
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Sterba , Wendy.
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  • Title: The Question of Enite’s Transgression: Female Voice and Male Gaze as Determining Factors in Hatmann’s Erec [The author argues that by re-inscribing the Echo and Narcissus myth in the story of Erec and Enite, Hartmann von Aue effectively advises women to listen to their inner voices, and advises men to turn their gazes outward from themselves. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature.  Edited by Albrecht Classen.  Kümmerle Verlag, 1991.  Pages 57 - 68.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Enite (Literary Figure) Female Voice in Literature Gaze Hartmann von Aue, Poet - Erec Literature - Verse
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 12
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  • Author's Affiliation: College of Saint Benedict
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  • Year of Publication: 1991.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 3874527689