Marriage, Love, Friendship. the Semantics of Social Attachment in Early New German Prose Romances

Name: Marriage, Love, Friendship. the Semantics of Social Attachment in Early New German Prose Romances
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ISBN: 9783484365605

ISBN-10: 3484365609

ISBN-13: 9783484365605

Edition: 2001

Authors: Manuel Braun

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This study of historical semantics and early modern-age literary history delineates the way in which ideas about marriage, love and friendship changed radically from the 15th to the 16th century. Taking its bearings from systems and discourse theory, it examines tractates and fictional literature. Georg Wickram's prose romances take up the discourse on marriage to be found in moral theology and in stark contrast to earlier romances instantiate new forms of passionate love and friendship. As such they respond to the increasing isolation of the individual in the wake of the thoroughgoing reorganization of (German) society at that time, a phenomenon reflected both in the Â»FortunatusÂ« romance…

Book details

List price: $132.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication date: 4/5/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 399
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long
Weight: 1.584