wîplîch man

Formen und Funktionen von ›Effemination‹ in deutschsprachigen Erzähltexten des 13. Jahrhunderts

By (author) Andrea Moshövel Series edited by Martin Baisch Series edited by Johannes Keller Series edited by Michael Mecklenburg Series edited by Matthias Meyer

Book cover: wîplîch man

Extent: 563 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: aventiuren

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2008)

ISBN: 9783899714470

6.46 x 9.69 inches

Price: $125.00

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Just what is a real man? Indeed, what constitutes a man or a woman at all? This study is devoted to these questions based on the male drag and pregnant figures depicted in German tales of the 13th century in association with theories of the American philosopher Judith Butler. Because feminine men are not limited to any one literary genre, but rather occur in very different contexts such as in legends of the saints, secular epics and novels, the volume looks not only at the basis of gender relations and the relationship between body, identity and desire, but also at the poetological functions of delimiting gender in the respective context.

Andrea Moshövel studierte Germanistik, Englische Literatur und Amerikanistik in Duisburg. Sie war von 2000 bis 2005 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Oldenburg. Seit 2006 ist sie als DAAD-Lektorin an der Universität Olmütz / Olomouc (Tschechische Republik) tätig.

  • By (author) Andrea Moshövel
  • Series edited by Martin Baisch
  • Series edited by Johannes Keller
  • Series edited by Michael Mecklenburg
  • Series edited by Matthias Meyer