About the Author

Claudia Bornholdt is Assistant Professor of medieval German and Scandinavian Literaturein the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reviews

"Through her sound scholarship, dept interpretion, and cogent argumentation, she has contributed significantly to medieval narratology."Rosemarie Thee Morewedge in: Journal of English and Germnaic Philology 1/2008 "The author is to be congratulated on revisiting older theories on the development and origin of bridal quest narratives with a keen eye for nuance in a wide array of medieval texts and for ideological tendencies and lacunae in scholary interpretations of the late nineteenth and twentieth century."Ulrike Wiethaus in: Colloquia Germanica 1/2007