IMC 2009: Sessions

Session 1325: About Bridal Quest: Heroes and Anti-Heroes between Conquest and Sexual Desire

Sponsor:	Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft / Facoltà di lingue e letterature straniere, Università degli Studi di Urbino
Organiser:	Patrizia Mazzadi, Università degli Studi di Urbino 'Carlo Bo'
Moderator/Chair:	Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main
Paper 1325-a	It Began in the North?: Origin and Development of the Bridal Quest Motive - An Open Question (Language: English) Patrizia Mazzadi, Università degli Studi di Urbino 'Carlo Bo' Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Women's Studies
Paper 1325-b	Conquering the Unknown: The Bridal Quest Motif in the Willehalm Trilogy (Language: English) Cordula Böcking-Politis, Department of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Women's Studies
Paper 1325-c	The Timing of Desire in Day Three of Boccaccio's Decameron (Language: English) Peggy Escher, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Italian, Mentalities, Philosophy
Abstract	There is no doubt that the bridal quest is an important motif in the literature of the Middle Ages, and also that this subject know a important development between 12th and 14th century, particular in the German bridal-quest epics. The session wishes to investigate the European origin and development of the motif and its specific features using targeted literature texts of the Early and Middle Ages.