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Record Number:
2785
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Rasmussen , Ann Marie.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Fathers to Think Back Through: The Middle High German Mother-Daughter and Father-Son Advice Poems known as "Die Winsbeckin" and "Der Winsbecke" ["In particular, the essay examines the 'enabling' notions of authenticity, authorship, and paternal authority that shaped scholarship on the poems from 1845 to 1985. The trope of a father instructing his son furnished a productive framework for the overwhelmingly male professional caste of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars to 'think back through,' I will argue, as they constructed notions of conduct literature that privileged a version of paternal, secular authority and that rested at times on a nostalgic belief that didactic literature was imbued with an authentic connection to lived medieval experience." p. 109].
Source:
Medieval Conduct. Edited by Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark. Medieval Cultures, Volume 29. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pages 106 - 134.
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Article Type:
Essay
Subject
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:
Daughters in Literature
Fathers in Literature
Gender
Handbooks
Human Behavior
Literature- Verse
Mothers in Literature
Reception
Scholars
Sons in Literature
Der Winsbecke (The Knight from Winsbecke), Didactic Middle High German Poem
Die Winsbeckin (The Lad
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Germany
Century:
13, 19- 20
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Two Figures. Figure One "Der Winsbecke," a manuscript illustration in which the father addresses his son (Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, cpg. fol. 213r). Figure Two "Die Winsbeckin," a manuscript illustration in which the mother addresses her daughter (Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, cpg. fol. 217).
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Author's Affiliation:
Duke University
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2001.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0816635757