IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 813: Melancholic Gestures in Medieval Literature, Medicine, and Philosophy, II: Codes and Transgressions in Middle High German Literature
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Andrea Sieber, Institut für Deutsche & Niederländische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin Antje Wittstock, Institut für Deutsche & Niederländische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Antje Wittstock, Institut für Deutsche & Niederländische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Paper 813-a | Sad Killer: Bloodshed as Melancholic Gesture in Heroic Poetry (unconfirmed) (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 813-b | Blood, Melancholy, and the Grail (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 813-c | Written Woundings: Melancholy and Desire in the German Prosa-Lancelot (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - German |
| Abstract | It is known that even since antiquity, melancholy has been closely associated with ideas of masculinity as shown in stereotype gestures. Generally, medieval narrative texts and illustrated manuscripts provide evidence of how medical-philosophical treatises were reflected. However, it is noticeable that in vernacular literature new forms of representation are tested. Melancholy as an emotional state is no longer embodied in male heroes, but is now attributed to female figures as well, or by the disablement of the male body through injury. Taking this as a starting point, the contributions to our session ask in more detail whether melancholic gestures in Middle High German epic and courtly novels are recoded and transgressed. |