IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1222: Travelling in Middle High German Verse Novels (Mären)
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | 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 1222-a | Travelling in Middle High German Mären: A Survey (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1222-b | 'Monks on tour': The Role of Transgression in Mönch Felix and Brandans Meerfahrt (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Monasticism |
| Paper 1222-c | The Image of Travelling and the Constitution of Knowledge in Selected Middle High German Verse Novels (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Throughout the corpus of more than 200 late medieval Mären, travelling is of outstanding importance. Not only students on their way to their universities, but also princes, monks, knights, merchants, and even the whole population of a city (Der Wiener Meerfahrt) travel (or seem to travel) in very different ways and for manifold purposes and reasons. This section both analyses the spectre of travelling experiences depicted in Mären and asks for the narratological impact travelling meant for the genre. Newly edited Mären (DFG-project 'Edition und Kommentierung der deutschen Versnovellistik des 13. und 14. Jh.', Tübingen, Köln) will be used as textual basis of this section's discussions. |