IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 717: Between Encyclopaedia and Physiologus: The Literary Animal in between Zoology and Allegorical Interpretation, I - Texts
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungszentrum Mainz - Trier (HKFZ) / Animaliter-Projekt |
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Organiser: | Sabine Obermaier, Deutsches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Moderator/Chair: | An Smets, Instituut voor Middeleeuwse Studies, KU Leuven |
Paper 717-a | Bedeutungssetzung zwischen Tierkunde und Tierallegorese: Die Porus-Episode im 'Straßburger Alexander' (Language: Deutsch) |
Paper 717-b | Animals in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Mythology (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 717-c | Du nom à la chose: A propos de la difficulté d'identifier les animaux médiévaux (Language: Français) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin |
Abstract | Animals are omnipresent in medieval literature. However, the Physiologus tradition, the bestiaries, and also the medieval encyclopaedias often provide an insufficient framework for the interpretation of literary animals. Thus, the aim of this section is to explore the relation between literary animal depiction, Christian allegorical interpretation, and medieval zoology. Furthermore, we are interested in an evaluation of the literary innovations that occur in the presentation of animals within a poetics that does not cater for poetic innovation. The first part of the section focuses on literary texts for which the animal motif and its relation to the tradition have not yet been sufficiently researched. |