Research Catalog

Title

Melusine's footprint : tracing the legacy of a medieval myth / edited by Misty Urban, Deva F. Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Urban, Misty
• Kemmis, Deva
• Elmes, Melissa Ridley

Description

xiv, 437 pages; 25 cm

Summary

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, culture, and medievalism, applying rigorous critical lenses ranging from feminism and comparative literature to film and monster studies, this volume brings Melusine scholarship into the twenty-first century with nineteen lively and evocative essays that reassess this powerful figure's multiple meanings and illuminate her dynamic resonances across cultures and time.

Series Statement

Explorations in medieval culture, 2352-0299 ; volume 4

Uniform Title

Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 4.

Subjects

• Melusine (Legendary character) in literature
• Melusine (Legendary character)
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
• Mythology in literature
• Women in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The tail of Melusine: hybridity, mutability, and the accessible other / Frederika Bain -- Polycorporality and heteromorphia: untangling Melusine's mixed bodies / Ana Pairet -- Mermaid, mother, monster, and more: portraits of the fairy woman in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Melusine narratives / Caroline Prud'Homme -- The Melusine figure in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German literature and art: cultural-historical information within the pictorial program / Albrecht Classen -- The alchemical transformation of Melusine / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- Architecture and empire in Historia de la linda Melosina / Anna Casas Aguilar -- The lady with the serpent's tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine / Lydia Zeldenrust -- Matriarchs and mother tongues: the Middle English Romans of Partenay / Jennifer Alberghini -- Melusine and Luxembourg: a double memory / Pit Péporté -- Youth and rebellion in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine / Stacey L. Hahn -- The promise of (un)happiness in Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine / Simone Pfleger -- Half lady, half serpent: Melusine's monstrous body and the discourse of romance / Angela Jane Weisl -- Passing as a "Humayn woman": hybridity and salvation in the Middle English Melusine / Chera A. Cole -- Melusine and purgatorial punishment: the changing nature of fays / Zoë Enstone -- Metamorphoses of snake women: Melusine and Madam White / Zifeng Zhao -- Goethe and Die neue Melusine: a critical reinterpretation / Renata Schellenberg -- "Listening down the hall": an epistemological consideration of the encounter with Melusine in the Germanic literary tradition / Deva F. Kemmis -- Woman, abject, animal: refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and EXPORT / Anna-Lisa Baumeister -- How the dragon ate the woman: the fate of Melusine in English / Misty Urban -- Melusines past, present, and future: an afterword / Tania M. Colwell.

Call Number

JFE 18-5027

ISBN

• 9789004315082
• 900431508X

LCCN

2017041351

OCLC

1001884790

Title

Melusine's footprint : tracing the legacy of a medieval myth / edited by Misty Urban, Deva F. Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Explorations in medieval culture, 2352-0299 ; volume 4

Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Urban, Misty, editor.

Kemmis, Deva, editor.

Elmes, Melissa Ridley, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-5027