Genres in Medieval German Literature
Author | : Hubert Heinen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval, in literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hubert Heinen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval, in literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Will Hasty |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1571131736 |
New essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230.
Author | : Ernst Ralf Hintz |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1571139893 |
Drawing upon the most current methodologies, the essays in this book pursue the multifarious functions of end-times in medieval German texts.
Author | : Francis G. Gentry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This volume is a guide to medieval German literature from its beginnings in the eighth century to the fourteenth century. It will escort the motivated student and colleague with interest in the European Middle Ages but no expertise in older German languages. The chapter authors, all internationally-known scholars, were given the freedom to arrange their chapters as they felt most appropriate, including the question of the terminus ad quem. Chapters deal either with a chronological period, e.g. 13th century, or with specific genres, eg. drama. In addition, chapters both on the historical epoch and on the development of the German language in the medieval period have been included. In general, historical and cultural topics play an important role in each chapter.
Author | : William Doremus Paden |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Lyric poetry |
ISBN | : 9780252025365 |
"An essential volume for medievalists and scholars of comparative literature, Medieval Lyric opens up a reconsideration of genre in medieval European lyric. Departing from a perspective that asks how medieval genres correspond with twentieth-century ideas of structure or with the evolution of poetry, this collection argues that the development of genres should be considered as a historical phenomenon, embedded in a given culture and responsive to social and literary change.".
Author | : Karl Reichl |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110241129 |
Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. ‘Medieval Oral Literature’, a volume in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama.
Author | : Dennis Howard Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 1994-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521444934 |
This study brings recent scholarly debates on oral cultures and literate societies to bear on the earliest recorded literature in German (800-1300). It considers the criteria for assessing what works were destined for listeners, what examples anticipated readers, and how for both modes of reception could apply to one work, exploring the possible interplay between them. The opening chapters review previous scholarship and the introduction of writing into preliterate Germany. The core of the book presents lexical and non-lexical evidence for the different modes of reception, taken from the whole spectrum of genres, from dance songs to liturgy, from drama and heroic literature to the court narrative and lyric poetry. The social contexts of reception and the physical process of reading books are also considered. Two concluding chapters explore the literary and historical implications of the slow interpenetration of orality and literacy. There is a comprehensive bibliographical index of primary sources.
Author | : Albrecht Classen |
Publisher | : Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This study explains how the Volksbuch developed from the medieval courtly romance under the influence of complex sociological, economic, technological, and cultural factors during the 15th century and became an art form in its own right. The new genre was characterized by a wide range of styles, from the earthy plot and language of Till Eulenspiegel to the formal style and moralistic didacticism of the Magelone. The study goes on to examine the history of the genre's critical evaluation from the Romantic period to the present, providing a close-up survey of the history of German literary scholarship. It also discusses four major representatives of the genre: Thuring von Ringoltingen's Melusine, the anonymous Fortunatus, Till Eulenspiegel, and Historia von D. Johann Fausten. This book should interest not only students and scholars of German, but also those interested in the social, historical, and mental transition of Germany from the late Middle Ages to the modern age.
Author | : Stephanie M. Hilger |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 161149530X |
In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical rupture, which represented both the progress of the Enlightenment and the darkness of the Terreur. French authors discussed the political events in their country, but they were not the only ones to do so. As the effects of the French Revolution became more palpable across the border, German authors pondered their implications in newspapers, political pamphlets, and historiographical treatises. German women also participated in these debates, but they often embedded their political commentary in literary texts because they were discouraged, and sometimes even barred, from publishing in explicitly political and public venues. As such, literature, in the sense of belles lettres, had a compensatory function for women: it allowed them to engage in political discussion without explicitly encroaching on certain domains that were perceived as a male preserve. As women writers explored the uses of literature for political commentary they adapted major literary genres in order to consolidate their position in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary sphere. Those genres included domestic fiction, the historical novel, historical tragedy, autobiography, the Robinsonade,and the Bildungsroman. Women writers challenged the images of women traditionally portrayed in these genres: dutiful daughter, submissive wife, caring mother, tantalizing mistress, angelic figure, and passive victim. Gender and Genre discusses six women writers who replaced these traditional female types with women warriors and emigrants as protagonists in texts published between 1795 and 1821: Therese Huber, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Christine Westphalen, Regula Engel, Sophie von La Roche, and Henriette Frölich. These authors’ protagonists question traditional images of passive femininity, yet their battered bodies also depict the precarious position of women in general, and women writers in particular, during this period. Because women writers were attacked by their male counterparts who attempted to halt their foray into the literary marketplace, these texts are as much about power dynamics in the German literary establishment as they are about French politics.
Author | : David E. Wellbery |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1038 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780674015036 |
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.