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Record Number:
9317
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Townsend , David.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Ironic Intertextuality and the Reader's Resistance to Heroic Masculinity in the "Waltharius" [suggests that monastic readers viewed Hildegund as a subversive character who undercut the warriors' bravado; comparisons are made with the "Aeneid's" Dido episode and slasher films].
Source:
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler. Garland Publishing, 1997. Pages 67 - 86.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Gender in Literature
Heroes in Literature
Hildegund (Literary Figure)
Irony
Latin Literature
Literature- Verse
Masculinity in Literature
Readers
Waltharius, Latin Epic
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Germany
Century:
9
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Table:
Abstract:
This essay examines the way readers of an early medieval epic used irony as a powerful and flexible, though ambiguous, strategy to undercut the text's ostensible investment in the heroic masculinity of Germanic legend. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing at http://www.garlandpub.com].
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1997.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0815328362