Mara R. Wade Knihy

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

The study focuses on the earliest German-language opera libretti, the pastoral Singspiele. The history of the term is traced throughout various poetical treatises of the 17th century, from Opitz to Stieler. Three works, Seelewig, Psyche, and Amelinde, are compared in terms of dramatic structure, poetic formulation of the text, the role of literary contrafacture, and the extent of musical accompaniment. The allegorical theme of anima et corpo unites all three works and, indeed, is characteristic of the genre.