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Melusine's Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth(4 Explorations in Medieval Culture)

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In Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, editors Misty Urban, Deva Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes offer an invigorating international and interdisciplinary examination of the legendary fairy Melusine. Along with fresh insights into the popular French and German traditions, these essays investigate Melusine’s English, Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese counterparts and explore her roots in philosophy, folklore, and classical myth. Combining approaches from art history, history, alchemy, literature, cultural studies, and medievalism, applying rigorous critical lenses ranging from feminism and comparative literature to film and monster theory, this volume brings Melusine scholarship into the twenty-first century with twenty lively and evocative essays that reassess this powerful figure’s multiple meanings and illuminate her dynamic resonances across cultures and time. Contributors are Anna Casas Aguilar, Jennifer Alberghini, Frederika Bain, Anna-Lisa Baumeister, Albrecht Classen, Chera A. Cole, Tania M. Colwell, Zoë Enstone, Stacey L. Hahn, Deva F. Kemmis, Ana Pairet, Pit Péporté, Simone Pfleger, Caroline Prud’Homme, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Renata Schellenberg, Misty Urban, Angela Jane Weisl, Lydia Zeldenrust, and Zifeng Zhao.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part I. Bodies and Texts: Mapping Melusine in Art and Print 1 The Tail of Melusine: Hybridity, Mutability, and the Accessible Other Frederika Bain 2 Polycorporality and Heteromorphia: Untangling Melusine's Mixed Bodies Ana Pairet 3 Mermaid, Mother, Monster, and More: Portraits of the Fairy Woman in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Melusine Narratives Caroline Prud'Homme 4 The Melusine Figure in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Literature and Art: Cultural-Historical Information within the Pictorial Program Albrecht Classen 5 The Alchemical Transformation of Melusine Melissa Ridley Elmes Part II. Mother, Muse: Melusine and Political Identity 6 Architecture and Empire in Historia de la linda Melosina Anna Casas Aguilar 7 The Lady with the Serpent's Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine Lydia Zeldenrust 8 Matriarchs and Mother Tongues: The Middle English Romans of Partenay Jennifer Alberghini 9 Melusine and Luxembourg: A Double Memory Pit Péporté Part III. Theoretical Transformations: Readings and Refigurations 10 Youth and Rebellion in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine Stacey L. Hahn 11 The Promise of (Un)Happiness in Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine Simone Pfleger 12 Half Lady, Half Serpent: Melusine's Monstrous Body and the Discourse of Romance Angela Jane Weisl 13 Passing as a "Humayn Woman": Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine Chera A. Cole 14 Melusine and Purgatorial Punishment: The Changing Nature of Fays Zoë Enstone 15 Metamorphoses of Snake Women: Melusine and Madam White Zifeng Zhao Part IV. Melusines Medieval to Modern 16 Goethe and Die neue Melusine: A Critical Reinterpretation Renata Schellenberg 17 "Listening Down the Hall": An Epistemological Consideration of the Encounter with Melusine in the Germanic Literary Tradition Deva F. Kemmis 18 Woman, Abject, Animal: Refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and EXPORT Anna-Lisa Baumeister 19 How the Dragon Ate the Woman: The Fate of Melusine in English Misty Urban 20 Melusines Past, Present, and Future: An Afterword Tania M. Colwell Selected Bibliography Index


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  • ISBN-13: 9789004315082
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Edition: Explorations in Medieval Culture
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 997 gr
  • ISBN-10: 900431508X
  • Publisher Date: 23 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 438
  • Series Title: 4 Explorations in Medieval Culture
  • Sub Title: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth
  • Width: 155 mm


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