Metamorphoses of Snake Women: Melusine and Madam White

In: Melusine's Footprint
Author:
Zifeng Zhao
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282–300
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004355958_017

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Melusine's Footprint

Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth

Series:  Explorations in Medieval Culture, Volume: 4
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E-Book ISBN:
9789004355958
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
06 Nov 2017
Introduction
PART I Bodies and Texts: Mapping Melusine in Art and Print
CHAPTER 1 The Tail of Melusine: Hybridity, Mutability, and the Accessible Other
CHAPTER 2 Polycorporality and Heteromorphia: Untangling Melusine’s Mixed Bodies
CHAPTER 3 Mermaid, Mother, Monster, and More: Portraits of the Fairy Woman in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Melusine Narratives
CHAPTER 4 The Melusine Figure in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Literature and Art: Cultural-Historical Information within the Pictorial Program
CHAPTER 5 The Alchemical Transformation of Melusine
PART II Mother, Muse: Melusine and Political Identity
CHAPTER 6 Architecture and Empire in Historia de la linda Melosina
CHAPTER 7 The Lady with the Serpent’s Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine
CHAPTER 8 Matriarchs and Mother Tongues: The Middle English Romans of Partenay
CHAPTER 9 Melusine and Luxembourg: A Double Memory
PART III Theoretical Transformations: Readings and Refigurations
CHAPTER 10 Youth and Rebellion in Jean d’Arras’ Roman de Mélusine
CHAPTER 11 The Promise of (Un)Happiness in Thüring von Ringoltingen’s Melusine
CHAPTER 12 Half Lady, Half Serpent: Melusine’s Monstrous Body and the Discourse of Romance
CHAPTER 13 Passing as a “Humayn Woman”: Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine
CHAPTER 14 Melusine and Purgatorial Punishment: The Changing Nature of Fays
CHAPTER 15 Metamorphoses of Snake Women: Melusine and Madam White
PART IV Melusines Medieval to Modern
CHAPTER 16 Goethe and Die neue Melusine: A Critical Reinterpretation
CHAPTER 17 “Listening Down the Hall”: An Epistemological Consideration of the Encounter with Melusine in the Germanic Literary Tradition
CHAPTER 18 Woman, Abject, Animal: Refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and EXPORT
CHAPTER 19 How the Dragon Ate the Woman: The Fate of Melusine in English
CHAPTER 20 Melusines Past, Present, and Future: An Afterword

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