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Article: Der Briefwechsel zwischen Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681) und Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-1694).(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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DerBriefwechsel zwischen Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681) und Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-1694). 2 vols. Ed. by HARTMUT LAUFHUTTE and DIETRICH JONS (=SIGMUND VON BRIKEN, Werke und Korrespondenz, vol. xi; Neudrucke deutscher Literaturwerke, N.F. 49, 50) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2004. 1,020 pp. 174 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-28049-1/2.
Thirty years ago Flora Kimmich observed that 'scholarship in Catharina von Greiffenberg is neither extensive nor very distinguished' (Sonnets of Catharina von Greiffenberg (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), p. 3). This remains largely true today. Despite her claims to proper recognition, which to any reader of her ...