Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany

Informationen zum Autor Anna Linton took her BA, M.St. and D.Phil. at the University of Oxford. After two years as a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, she took up a lectureship in German at King's College London, where she teaches a wide range of courses covering German language and literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. She has published articles on early modern topics, and her current research project charts the parallel reception in German culture of the biblical story of Jephthah sacrificing his daughter and the classical myth of Iphigenia at Aulis. She is a member of the Steering Committee for an AHRC-funded project, 'Representations of Women and Death in German Art, Literature and Media from 1500'. Klappentext This study of Lutheran funeral booklets - verse written to console bereaved parents - adds to our understanding of the genre, which has not been fully explored as literature or for what it reveals about the depiction of children or parent-child relationships in early modern Europe. Zusammenfassung This study of Lutheran funeral booklets - verse written to console bereaved parents - adds to our understanding of the genre, which has not been fully explored as literature or for what it reveals about the depiction of children or parent-child relationships in early modern Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Lutheran consolation for bereaved parents 2: The purposes of poetry 3: Models and metaphors for Lutheran funeral poetry 4: Death and didacticism 5: Brides of Christ and heavenly soldiers - imagery in funeral verse 6: Paul Fleming and Margarethe Susanna von Kuntsch Conclusion Biographies of poets and authors Funeral booklets and occasional poems for the children cited Bibliography

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• Authors: Anna Linton, Anna (Department of German Linton, Linton Anna
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2008
• EAN: 9780199233366
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923336-6
• No. of pages: 319
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Language and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, RELIGION / Theology, Theology, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599