„waz sol doch si nû rîten?“ Feminine Spaces and Subjectivity in Hartmann’s Erec

„waz sol doch si nû rîten?“ Feminine Spaces and Subjectivity in Hartmann’s Erec Public Deposited

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Maurer, Margaret A.
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

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This work traces the development of a new, female-friendly courtly model in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec through a close examination of the development of female subjectivity. I argue that female subjectivity is affirmatively realized in Erec through a succession of private and semi-private spaces, whose physical and/or metaphorical placement outside the purview of theretofore understood methods of gauging the acceptability of feminine behavior, promotes a simultaneously separate and equal role for courtly ruling women.

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