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Musica Naturalis
A critical study of the relationship between poetics and music theory in medieval culture and aesthetics. Musica Naturalis delivers the first systematic account of speculative music theory as a discursive horizon for literary poetics. The title refers to the late medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps, whose 1392 treatise on verse writing, L'Art de Dictier, famously casts verse as “natural music” in explicit distinction to song, which Deschamps defines as “artificial.” Philipp Jeserich links the significance of the speculative branch of medieval musicology to literary theory and literary production, opening up a field of study that has been largely neglected. Beginning with Augustin...
The Transnational in Literary Studies
This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and...
Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts
This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept ‘barbarism’ from the 18th century to the present and illuminates its foundational role in modern European and Western identity. It constitutes an original comparative, interdisciplinary exploration of the concept’s modern European and Western history, with emphasis on the role of literature in the concept’s shifting functions. The study contributes to a historically grounded understanding of this figure’s past and contemporary uses. It combines overviews with detailed analyses of representative works of literature, art, film, philosophy, political and cultural theory, in which “barbarism” figures prominently....
Artushof und Artusliteratur
Die Artusforschung dient der Erschließung der gemeinsamen kulturellen Grundlagen Europas mit Blick auf eines der erfolgreichsten epischen Genres des europäischen Mittelalters. Bald nach ihren Anfängen wurde die Artusliteratur zu einem Feld der überregionalen Wertediskussion, der kulturellen Identitätsfindung oder des literarischen Experiments. Diese Texte und ihre kulturhistorische Bedeutung beleuchten die Bände der Reihe SIA aus der Perspektive verschiedener Philologien, jeweils fokussiert auf einen aktuell in der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft diskutierten Begriff.
Artusroman und Mythos
Die Artusforschung dient der Erschließung der gemeinsamen kulturellen Grundlagen Europas mit Blick auf eines der erfolgreichsten epischen Genres des europäischen Mittelalters. Bald nach ihren Anfängen wurde die Artusliteratur zu einem Feld der überregionalen Wertediskussion, der kulturellen Identitätsfindung oder des literarischen Experiments. Diese Texte und ihre kulturhistorische Bedeutung beleuchten die Bände der Reihe SIA aus der Perspektive verschiedener Philologien, jeweils fokussiert auf einen aktuell in der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft diskutierten Begriff.
Troubling Arthurian Histories
Drawing on a range of approaches in cultural, gender and literary studies, this book presents Chrétien de Troyes's Erec et Enide as a daring and playful exploration of scandal, terror and anxiety in court cultures. Through an interdisciplinary reading, it locates Erec et Enide, the first surviving Arthurian romance in French, in various contexts, from broad cultural and historical questionings such as medieval vernacular 'modernity's' engagement with the weight of its classical inheritance, to the culturally fecund and politically turbulent histories of the families of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenet. Where previous accounts of the tale have not uncommonly presented Chrétien's poem as a decorous 'resolution' of tensions between dynastic marriage and fin'amors, between personal desire and social duty, this reading sees these forces as in permanent and irresolvable tension, the poem's key scenes haunted - whether mischievously or traumatically - by questions and skeletons from various closets.
Handbook of Diachronic Narratology
This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that t...
Diu Crône and the Medieval Arthurian Cycle
"Diu Crone is a bravura performance which creates a compelling new foundation myth: Camelot is transformed from its initial state of factionalism, sexual betrayal and lack of morale under an inexperienced king to one of law, order and security symbolised by the supreme resourcefulness shown by Gawain in the unflinching service of Arthur, his liege lord. It reinvents the imaginative foundation of the Arthurian ideal, and demonstrates that the ideal maintained its appeal in Germany into the later middle ages."--BOOK JACKET.
Probleme des Artusromans
Der Band, der aus Anlass des 80. Geburtstags des Romanisten Friedrich Wolfzettel erscheint, versammelt eine Auswahl der kleineren Arbeiten des Jubilars zum Artusroman in der Romania. Aus den knapp 50 Aufsätzen, die Wolfzettel seit den frühen 1970er Jahren – neben einer Monographie, mehreren gewichtigen Sammelbänden und zahlreichen Rezensionen – zu arthurischen Themen veröffentlich hat, wurden 13 Beiträge ausgewählt, die sich weniger mit einzelnen Texten denn mit übergreifenden Fragestellungen und Problemen des arthurischen Erzählens im Mittelalter befassen. Ergänzt wird der Band durch zwei bislang unveröffentlichte Studien sowie eine umfangreiche Einleitung, die Wolfzettels Arbeiten forschungsgeschichtlich kontextualisiert. Der Band spiegelt somit auch die romanistische Artusforschung der letzten knapp 50 Jahre.
Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France
The question of what medieval "courtliness" was, both as a literary influence and as a historical "reality", is debated in this volume. The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collection of essays. Focused on works written in the Francophone world between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as both an historical privilege and aliterary ideal, and as a concept that operated on and was informed by complex social and economic realities. Several essays reveal how courtliness is subject to satire or is the subject of exhortation in works intended for noblemen and women, not to mention ambitious bourgeois. Others, more strictly literary in their focus, explore ...
