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Literatur – Theorie – Geschichte

Beiträge zu einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Mediävistik

Edited by: Udo Friedrich, Bruno Quast and Monika Schausten

ISSN: 2363-7978

e-ISSN 2363-7986

In der Reihe Literatur - Theorie – Geschichte (LTG) erscheinen Arbeiten aus der Germanistischen Mediävistik, die eine Rekonstruktion historischer Text- und Diskurswelten betreiben. Mit ihrer kulturhistorischen Grundierung bietet die Reihe solchen Studien ein Forum, die die Beschäftigung mit der Literatur des Mittelalters bei hoher philologischer Präzision auf eine theoretisch reflektierte Grundlage stellen. Diese kann von Konzeptionen der Geschichtswissenschaften (z.B. Historische Anthropologie, Mentalitätengeschichte), von philosophischen (Diskurstheorie, Dekonstruktion, Gender etc.), kulturphilosophischen (Zivilisationstheorien) oder literatur- und medientheoretischen Zugängen geprägt sein. Publiziert werden Monographien und Sammelbände, die textwissenschaftlich orientiert, kultur- und/oder literaturtheoretisch perspektiviert und historisch situiert sind.

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Udo Friedrich ist Professor für Ältere Deutsche Sprache und Literatur an der Universität zu Köln Bruno Quast ist Professor für Literatur des Mittelalters an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster Monika Schausten ist Professorin für Ältere deutsche Sprache und Literatur an der Universität zu Köln

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Verhüllungsstrategien in höfischen Bild- und Textzeugnissen

Julika Moos

Volume 32 in this series

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What exactly the reception of works of art looked like in the aristocratic culture of the Middle Ages is a mystery – but this interdisciplinary study takes the bold step of examining ivory carvings and narrative texts written in Middle High German to find out how the nobility might have perceived them. Through the lens of art studies reception aesthetics, it comes up with a framework of work-immanent techniques that shape perception, examining romances such as Rudolf’s Willehalm von Orlens, Gottfried’s Tristan, Wolfram’s Titurel, and Konrad’s Partonopier und Meliur to argue that the manipulation of the receiver’s viewpoint is a specific aesthetic concept. For in both visual artifacts and courtly romances, gazes are frequently portrayed as limited, concealed, or completely impossible, indicating that there is more to see than what meets the eye. This study analyzes images and texts together, suggesting that courtly culture had its own codes for the invisible – codes that only become identifiable as concealed instructions for reception when the subtle control of the gaze is revealed in such works as a cross-media aesthetic strategy.

ISBN:: 9783111549644
ISBN:: 9783111549996
ISBN:: 9783111544106
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Fremdes Begehren: Spiele der Identitäten und Differenzen im späten 12. Jahrhundert

Judith Klinger

Volume 31 in this series

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In the narrative literature of the late twelfth century, dynamics of desire produce complex identity and relationship constellations. This study examines the narrative logics of heterosocial and homosocial desire in the context of contemporary discourses. A systematic exploration of the tools of queer and gender studies is followed by three case studies on the Song of Roland, the Romance of Eneas, and the Nibelungenlied.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111387314
ISBN:: 9783111387314
ISBN:: 9783111387819
ISBN:: 9783111387178
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2024

Liebesallegorien

Spielformen eines altneuen Faszinationstyps zwischen Abstraktion und Hyperkonkretion

Susanne Köbele, Tim Huber, Tatiana Hirschi

Volume 30 in this series

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Instead of being unambiguously decrypted, allegories enable liminal areas to emerge between literal and figurative dimensions. In this process, historically "old" and epistemologically "new" aspects can ironically diverge. This comparatist volume focuses on the ludic potentials of one such "old-new" type of fascination – the allegory of love – which become particularly evident in the interplay between abstraction and hyper-concreteness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111381817
ISBN:: 9783111381817
ISBN:: 9783111381909
ISBN:: 9783111375922
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Dimensionen von bilde – Ansätze zu einem ikonischen Erzählen im späthöfischen Roman

Ulrich Hoffmann

Volume 29 in this series

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This study examines pictoriality in the late courtly romance. With iconical narration, it provides evidence of a poetic strategy that makes use of the specific dimensions and premodern logic of images, thereby generating action and meaning. The volume thus makes a contribution to historical narrative studies and to research into the visual culture of the Middle Ages within the scope of transdisciplinary image studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111031842
ISBN:: 9783111031842
ISBN:: 9783111032061
ISBN:: 9783110998856
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Art Theory
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Der Baumgarten im höfischen Roman

Narrative Erzeugung eines Handlungs- und Imaginationsraums

Theresa Specht

Volume 28 in this series

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The orchard is not some arbitrary, topical setting in the courtly romance. As a liminal space, it has a specific potential for action and conflict. This volume uses example analyses to show how the orchard is created in narrative as a consistent, three-dimensional space of action and imagination and how this develops, semanticizes, and functionalizes its conflict potential for the narrative.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795455
ISBN:: 9783110795455
ISBN:: 9783110795493
ISBN:: 9783110795387
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Performativeness
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Book 2023

Manheit und Kampf in der Literatur des Mittelalters

Ritterliche Gewalt zwischen Praxeologie und Konventionalität am Beispiel des ‚Iwein‘ und der ‚Steirischen Reimchronik‘

Elias Friedrichs

Volume 27 in this series

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In high medieval literature, manheit describes the ability to fight and to use violence, and was therefore the knight’s most important characteristic. This study shows how in texts like Iwein and the Steierische Reimchronik, warlike and violent actions are staged as manheit and battle, and how the legitimization of the chivalric potential for violence by aristocratic rulers is glorified.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111240275
ISBN:: 9783111240275
ISBN:: 9783111227894
ISBN:: 9783111240466
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Literarische Herrschersakralität – Erzählen von Karl dem Großen

Rolandslied des Pfaffen Konrad – Strickers Karl der Große – Zürcher Buch vom heiligen Karl

Fridtjof Bigalke

Volume 26 in this series

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This study examines stagings of the rule of Charlemagne in Upper German chanson de geste adaptations of the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Using the concept of the "sacrality of the ruler", it analyzes the relationship between Charlemagne’s official legitimation and personal distinction. The corpus reveals a diachronic shift from paradigmatic to syntagmatic narration about the life and work of the canonized ruler-saint.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768541
ISBN:: 9783110768541
ISBN:: 9783110768572
ISBN:: 9783110768169
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Merkantiles Erzählen – Von Kauf und Verkauf in mittelhochdeutscher Literatur

Adrian Meyer

Volume 25 in this series

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The aim of looking at Middle High German market scenes is to free the analysis of mercantile practices in premodern narrative literature from teleological economic historiography and to instead investigate the semantic potential of the mercantile space on the basis of the functionality of its practices. This volume examines the literary negotiation of mercantile conventions by looking at a number of examples from the thirteenth century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776188
ISBN:: 9783110776188
ISBN:: 9783110776270
ISBN:: 9783110775709
Subject:: Business and Economics
Subject:: Political Economics
Subject:: History of Economics
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Economic History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Wandel des Kulturellen – Wissen der Rhetorik – Wege der Metapher

Ausgewählte Aufsätze

Udo Friedrich, Andreas Hammer, Michael Schwarzbach-Dobson, Christiane Witthöft

Volume 24 in this series

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This volume brings together selected writings by Udo Friedrich that stimulated three paradigm shifts in medieval studies: the reevaluation of the potential of rhetorical argumentation structures in the analysis of short narratives, a new cultural studies perspective on the intersections between concepts of nature and culture, and an anthropologically oriented narrative theory that examines the cultural archive by looking at its narratives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110772340
ISBN:: 9783110772340
ISBN:: 9783110764314
ISBN:: 9783110772425
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Schönheitsdiskurse in der Literatur des Mittelalters

Die Propädeutik des Fleisches zwischen ‚aisthesis‘ und Ästhetik

Fabian David Scheidel

Volume 23 in this series

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This study provides a fundamental new reading of numerous commonplace positions in Germanic medieval studies relating to the physical beauty of literary figures. It looks at both canonic and more marginal Middle High German poems ("Erec," "Parzival," "Welscher Gast" [The Romance Stranger]) as well as their Medieval Latin context (poetorhetorics) and their discursive matrix, which is based in theology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719444
ISBN:: 9783110719444
ISBN:: 9783111521800
ISBN:: 9783110719468
ISBN:: 9783110718409
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Vielfalt des Religiösen

Mittelalterliche Literatur im postsäkularen Kontext

Susanne Bernhardt, Bent Gebert

Volume 22 in this series

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The phenomena of religious pluralization in medieval texts can be observed not just in dramatic transgressions but also in subtle variations. The contributions in this volume sound out these intra- and interreligious spaces from the perspectives of semantics, narratology, and discourse and transmission history, providing new insights into the diversification of religious difference in the pre-modern period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711516
ISBN:: 9783110711516
ISBN:: 9783110711660
ISBN:: 9783110708707
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Anthropologie der Kehre

Figuren der Wende in der Literatur des Mittelalters

Udo Friedrich, Ulrich Hoffmann, Bruno Quast

Volume 21 in this series

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This volume examines the cultural manifestations and historical development of figures of reversal, as well as in their poetological configurations. From the turn as an epistemic figure to modellings of religious conversion and literary models of reversal, their reception history encompasses a range of very different fields. The reversal ultimately proves to be an elementary form of orientation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110706093
ISBN:: 9783110706093
ISBN:: 9783110706208
ISBN:: 9783110705775
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Heilige und Heiden im legendarischen Erzählen des 13. Jahrhunderts

Formen und Funktionen der Aushandlung des religiösen Gegensatzes zum Heidentum

Felix Prautzsch

Volume 20 in this series

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Against the backdrop of 13th-century cultural history, the study examines the function of legendary narratives in Christian identity formation. Martyrdom, war, and conversion are the basic narratives in negotiating religious opposition to heathendom. These stories were handed down from the early beginnings of Christianity and specifically updated in the context of crusades and missions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664720
ISBN:: 9783110664720
ISBN:: 9783110664805
ISBN:: 9783110659108
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Hofkritik in der mittelhochdeutschen höfischen Epik

Studien zur Interdiskursivität der Musik- und Kleiderdarstellung in Gottfrieds von Straßburg 'Tristan', Hartmanns von Aue 'Ereck', der 'Kudrun' und im 'Nibelungenlied'

Julia Stiebritz-Banischewski

Volume 19 in this series

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In the 12^th and 13^th centuries, contemporary courtly literature exalted court culture while also subjecting it to culturally critical self-reflection. Based on a presentation of music and clothing in four central texts, this study shows how stereotypical patterns of argumentation in Latin court criticism made their way into courtly epic literature and counterbalanced excessively exalted topoi of courtliness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673258
ISBN:: 9783110673258
ISBN:: 9783110673296
ISBN:: 9783110672879
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Heinrich Wittenwilers Ring als Krisenexperiment

Erwartung und Störung didaktischer Kommunikation

Annika Goldenbaum

Volume 18 in this series

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The author applies ethnomethodological approaches to interpret Heinrich Wittenwiler’s “Der Ring” as a breaching experiment, one that reveals the constitutive expectations of didactic communication through a strategy of disruption and uncertainty. It forces readers to think about what they know, and generates in this way new knowledge. Goldenbaum’s study contributes to the debate about the knowledge of literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110705218
ISBN:: 9783110705218
ISBN:: 9783110705270
ISBN:: 9783110704488
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Formen lyrischen Erzählens im Minnesang des 12. bis 14. Jahrhunderts

Metapher, Topos und Diagramm zwischen Nähe und Distanz

Diana Roever

Volume 17 in this series

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Does medieval poetry narrate? The study adopts a new perspective, taking metaphor as the point of departure for further reflection. It contextualizes topos, diagrammatics, and the role of performance. The emphasis is to examine the polymorphic and indomitable nature of narrative options, to deepen lyrical readings, while also expanding the complexity of lyrical narratology beyond classical narrative theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684360
ISBN:: 9783110684360
ISBN:: 9783110684407
ISBN:: 9783110683349
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Reform als Textstrategie

Untersuchungen zum literarischen Œuvre des Johannes Meyer O.P.

Christian Seebald

Volume 16 in this series

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The Dominican Johannes Meyer (1422/23–1485) left a body of texts that cover a broad range of topics and sources. The study examines the specific literary patterns and textual strategies found in his texts, and employs discourse analysis to ask how Meyer positioned himself in the context of late medieval monastic reform, the theology of piety, and the reception of mysticism, and to assess his contribution to 15^th-century German literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110656695
ISBN:: 9783110656695
ISBN:: 9783110654998
ISBN:: 9783110654561
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Zukunftsvorstellungen in frühen deutschsprachigen Prosaromanen

Susanne Knaeble

Volume 15 in this series

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One of the basic achievements of the modern period is an open future. This postulation governs research and occludes our view of pre-modern concepts of the future. This study of early prose novels written in the German language during the 15^th and 16^th centuries (Hug Schapler, Melusine, Hartliebs Alexander, Fortunatus) focuses on the conceptional change in narrative representations of notions of the future in early prose novels.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110616446
ISBN:: 9783110616446
ISBN:: 9783110615944
ISBN:: 9783110615999
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Bibelepisches Erzählen vom 'Transitus Mariae' im Mittelalter

Diskurshistorische Studien

Susanne Spreckelmeier

Volume 14 in this series

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The study explores bible epic narratives as a narrative process across media and genres and investigates the medieval reception of the Transitus Mariae B by Pseudo-Melito of Sardis. Interdiscursive analytic case studies uncover discursive inferences in textual and pictorial sources, Assumptionist argumentation structures, and courtly adaptations of the apocryphal material that fell between scholarship and popular practices of piety.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110609233
ISBN:: 9783110609233
ISBN:: 9783110607543
ISBN:: 9783110607796
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Exemplarisches Erzählen im Kontext

Mittelalterliche Fabeln, Gleichnisse und historische Exempel in narrativer Argumentation

Michael Schwarzbach-Dobson

Volume 13 in this series

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This study argues that exemplary fables, allegories, and historical examples from the medieval period are located at the juncture between argument and narration. In contrast to previous works devoted to this subject, which tend to focus on questions of historical transmission, this book contextualizes their rhetorical aspects harnessing new impetus from the theory of topics and the epistemology of the exemplary.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110579406
ISBN:: 9783110579406
ISBN:: 9783110577457
ISBN:: 9783110577402
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Rhetoric
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Inkulturation

Strategien bibelepischen Schreibens in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

Bruno Quast, Susanne Spreckelmeier

Volume 12 in this series

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The volume presents a collection of case studies by leading Medievalists on the subject of literary interculturation strategies in the biblical narratives of the Middle Ages and early modern period. It thus makes a contribution to research on the genre of the "biblical epic," unpacking its controversial hybridity at the intersection between sacred texts and aesthetic invention.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110538731
ISBN:: 9783110538731
ISBN:: 9783110537307
ISBN:: 9783110537154
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Visualisierung und Rhetorisierung von Geschlecht

Strategien zur Inszenierung weiblicher Sexualität im Märe

Satu Heiland

Volume 11 in this series

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Middle High German short narratives show a sophisticated level of playfulness in their ways of seeing and visualizing female sexuality. Female gender and desire are visualized by means of a deliberate set of linguistic and narrative strategies that highlight sex and provide a stage for the ideals of female passion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110428575
ISBN:: 9783110427073
ISBN:: 9783110428575
ISBN:: 9783110428698
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Erzählen vom Heiligen

Narrative Inszenierungsformen von Heiligkeit im 'Passional'

Andreas Hammer

Volume 10 in this series

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The study examines the earliest – and with over 100,000 verses, the most extensive – vernacular legendary concerning its portrayals of holiness. Rather than emphasizing formal and historical motifs, it focuses on the specific poetics of legendary narrative. The analytic findings are also applicable to hagiographic narratives in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110408591
ISBN:: 9783110408577
ISBN:: 9783110408591
ISBN:: 9783110408683
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Dingkulturen

Objekte in Literatur, Kunst und Gesellschaft der Vormoderne

Anna Mühlherr, Heike Sahm, Monika Schausten, Bruno Quast

Volume 9 in this series

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This volume features contributions on premodern literature, art, and society, written from the perspectives of object theory. It reflects in particular on theories of gift-exchange, as well as the concepts of agency and interconnections between humans and objects. Related fields of study that contribute to the discussions are historical narratology as well as the phenomena of artificiality and aesthetics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110450972
ISBN:: 9783110450972
ISBN:: 9783110611762
ISBN:: 9783110449198
ISBN:: 9783110448955
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Intermediales Erzählen im frühneuzeitlichen illustrierten Roman

Zu Struktur und Wirkung der Medienkombination bei Jörg Wickram

Raphael Kuch

Volume 8 in this series

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The Colmar literary figure, Meistersinger, and painter Jörg Wickram employed the pictorial dimension of his early modern romances as a creative backdrop for his narrative. This book engages in a comprehensive analysis of the narrative, para-textual and trans-textual structure of the romances Galmy (1539), Gabriotto und Reinhart (1551), Knabenspiegel (1554), and Goldfaden (1557) to examine the diverse influences of intermedial structural elements.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110344967
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034472-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034496-7
ISBN:: 9783110352580
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter (A)

Book 2014

Wildes Erzählen - Erzählen vom Wilden

'Parzival', 'Busant' und 'Wolfdietrich D'

Larissa Schuler-Lang

Volume 7 in this series

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Using the methodology of cultural criticism as applied to medieval studies, this work examines different manifestations of wildness in medieval literary narratives, with an equal emphasis on issues of poetology and literary anthropology. Close textual readings newly illuminate the complex connections between self-understanding and representations of the wild.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783110344752
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034470-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034475-2
ISBN:: 9783110380538
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter (A)

Book 2014

Die Farben höfischer Körper

Farbattribuierung und höfische Identität in mittelhochdeutschen Artus- und Tristanromanen

Carolin Oster

Volume 6 in this series

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The colors displayed by courtly figures in the romances of the 12^th and 13^th c establish an independent semantics of color, which has been largely unresearched until now. The bodies of courtly figures and the colors of garments worn offer great potential for expressing personal or collective identify. The study shows how the colors of the body directly contribute to constructing the identity of a character in courtly romances.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050065342
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006469-7
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006534-2
ISBN:: 9783110317992
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter (A)

Book 2014

Die Farben der Herrschaft

Imagination, Semantik und Poetologie in heldenepischen Texten des deutschen Mittelalters

Mareike Klein

Volume 5 in this series

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Considering poetological, narratological, and structural viewpoints, Mareike Klein uses close readings to investigate the concepts of color and brilliance in the Song of Roland and King Rother as well as in Willehalm and Herzog Ernst (Version B). Her systematic analysis of discourse on color in heroic epic texts shows how colorfulness could idealize or critically accentuate ruling power and its implications.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050065199
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006468-0
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006519-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: Akademie Verlag

Book 2014

Literarische Säkularisierung im Mittelalter

Susanne Köbele, Bruno Quast

Volume 4 in this series

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This work explores how phenomena of secularization were expressed in the literature dating from the 11th to the 15th century. Exemplary analyses show how the concepts of the aesthetic and the religious in these texts overlapped and at the same time began to diverge from one another. Literary texts from a variety of genres will be studied for the strategies of secularization they employ.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050065151
ISBN:: 978-3-05-005974-7
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006515-1
ISBN:: 9783110553772
ISBN:: 9783110401295
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter (A)

Book 2013

Anfang und Ende

Formen narrativer Zeitmodellierung in der Vormoderne

Udo Friedrich, Andreas Hammer, Christiane Witthöft

Volume 3 in this series

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This book explores the categories of beginning and ending in their narratological, cultural, and anthropological dimensions. Individuals, collectives, and history overall are all contingent on epoch-specific causalities and finalities. Essays by literary theorists are supplemented by papers by cultural scientists and historians in order to locate the question in its various cultural contexts, both diachronically and synchronically.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050065137
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006054-5
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006513-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: Akademie Verlag

Book 2012

Arbeit an der Literatur

Zur Mythizität der Artusromane Hartmanns von Aue

Ulrich Hoffmann

Volume 2 in this series

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Die mittelalterlichen Artusromane stehen in einer bereits Jahrhunderte andauernden Tradition des Erzählens von König Artus, das über volkssprachige wie lateinisch-historiographische Überlieferungen eine europaweite Verbreitung erlangte. Bis in die literarischen Bearbeitungen des 12. Jahrhunderts hinein haben sich so Inhalte und Erzählschemata vornehmlich aus der inselkeltischen Mythologie erhalten, während die Annahme einer historischen Faktizität des Erzählten zugleich Ausgangspunkt für ein mithin legitimierendes und weltmodellierendes Erzählen sein konnte. In textnahen Lektüren wird diesem Verhältnis von Mythischem und Erzählen in den Artusromanen „Erec“ und „Iwein“ Hartmanns von Aue erstmals umfassend nachgegangen. Dabei geraten zum einen diachrone Verhältnisse von stofflicher Grundlage und literarischer Bearbeitung in den Blick, zum anderen wird eine synchron ausgerichtete Perspektive auf den kulturellen Kontext hin eröffnet. Da das Mythische sowohl auf der inhaltlichen Ebene des Textes als auch auf der strukturellen Ebene in Ausdrucksformen mythischen Denkens präsent ist, wird auf zwei den Mythos je anders perspektivierende philosophische Theoriemodelle zurückgegriffen. Der Ansatz von Hans Blumenberg, der die Funktion und Rezeption des Mythos fokussiert, wird mit dem Ansatz von Ernst Cassirer vermittelt, der den Mythos als symbolische Form beschreibt. So wird ein Instrumentarium entwickelt, anhand dessen die Mythizität der Romane umfassend beschrieben und begrifflich dargestellt wird. Auf diese Weise kann aufgezeigt werden, wie ein von Inhalten und Strukturen des Mythos gleichermaßen geprägtes Erzählen kulturelle Konfigurationen im literarischen Text formulieren lässt und so der Reflexion spezifischer Leit- und Wertvorstellungen einer hochmittelalterlichen Adelskultur dienen kann.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050060330
ISBN:: 978-3-050-06033-0
ISBN:: 978-3-050-05859-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: Akademie Verlag

Book 2012

Die Farben imaginierter Welten

Zur Kulturgeschichte ihrer Codierung in Literatur und Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart

Monika Schausten

Volume 1 in this series

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Für die Kulturgeschichte des westlichen Abendlandes seit der Antike sind Imaginationen von Farben in Literatur und Kunst konstitutiv. Besonders das christliche Mittelalter bedient sich der Farben, vielfach in Form einer bildkünstlerischen oder sprachlich erzeugten Zusammensetzung monochromer Flächen, um etwa die Substantiierung des Göttlichen in den "colores" zur Anschauung zu bringen oder Aspekte des sozialen Status von Personen, höfischer Pracht oder sozialer Unordnung darzulegen. Zu zeigen gilt es, dass Farben mithin im Rahmen kultureller Selbstvergewisserungsdebatten auch in Literatur und Kunst als sinngenerierende Medien und keineswegs als bloßes Dekorum fungieren. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge gehen davon aus, dass die vielfältigen Verfahren der Farbevokation, wie sie in Literatur und Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart begegnen, Teil jener historisch allererst präzise zu ermittelnden Selbstbeschreibungsverfahren sind, die Konzepte von gesellschaftlicher und personaler Identität erzeugen. An exemplarischen Erzähltexten aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit sowie an Beispielen aus der Kunstgeschichte erarbeiten die Autoren einerseits poetologisch-ästhetische Implikationen von Farballusionen und andererseits deren diskurshistorische Zusammenhänge. Der Band umfasst in seinem Kern Arbeiten zu den Farbsemantiken in der höfischen Erzählliteratur. Ausgehend von diesem Zentrum werden die Farbdiskurse der neueren Literatur exemplarisch erörtert. Dies geschieht z. B. an Goethes Farbenlehre, dem Antikediskurs der deutschen Klassik oder an rassistischen Farbstereotypen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Darüber hinaus werden die Funktionen von Blutseiten in spätmittelalterlichen Handschriften erörtert, die Rezeption von Pontormo in Video-Klang-Installationen der Gegenwartskunst sowie die Farben der Karthographie.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050060682
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006068-2
ISBN:: 978-3-05-005081-2
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Culture
Publisher:: Akademie Verlag