Foreign Encounters: Case Studies in German Literature before 1700 (Daphnis 33: 1-2) (DAPHNIS - ZEITS)

INHALT Foreign Encounters: Case Studies in German Literature Before 1700 Mara R. WADE: Der, die, das Fremde. Alterity in Medieval and Early Modern German Studies (Introduction). Prisca AUGUSTYN: Thor’s Hammer and the Power of God: Poetic Strategies in the Old Saxon Heliand Gospel. Stephen Mark CAREY: “Undr unkunder diet”. Monstrous Counsel in Herzog Ernst B. Rasma LAZDA-CAZERS: Hybridity and Liminality in Herzog Ernst B. Albrecht CLASSEN: Love and Fear of the Foreign: Thüring von Ringoltingen’s Melusine (1456). A Xenological Analysis. Debra PRAGER: Fortunatus “auß dem künigreich Cipern”. Mapping the World and the Self. Peter HESS: Marvelous Encounters: Albrecht Dürer and Early Sixteenth-Century German Perceptions of Aztec Culture. Luciana VILLAS BÔAS: Wild Stories of a Pious Travel Writer: The Unruly Example of Hans Staden’s Warhaftig Historia (Marburg 1557). Dwight E. RAAK TENHUISEN: Providence and Passio in Hans Staden’s Warhaftig Historia. Andrew WEEKS: Cosmic and Terrestrial Aliens in the German Renaissance. Kristen REIFSNYDER: Encountering the Enemy: Two Women’s Personal Narratives from Seventeenth-Century Germany. Karin A. WURST: The Utility of Play or the Enchantment of Instruction and Cultural Encounters: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer’s Frauenzimmer Gesprächspiele. REZENSIONEN Klaus AMANN: Tagungsbericht