IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1529: Towards a Poetics of Strophic Heroic Poetry
Thursday 15 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Research Project: 'Nibelungenlied and Nibelungen Saga', Universität Wien |
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| Organiser: | Florian Kragl, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Florian Kragl, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien |
| Paper 1529-a | Comics in the Late Middle Ages?: On the Aesthetic of the 'Sigenot' Manuscript Cod. Pal. Germ. 67 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 1529-b | Strophe als Gattungsreferenz?: Bedeutung der Form für Wolframs Titurel und Albrechts Jüngeren Titurel (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1529-c | Gedanken über die Sangbarkeit mittelalterlicher Heldenepik in Europa (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Music |
| Abstract | It is a commonplace in literary history, that medieval heroic poetry in general and MHG Heldenepik in particular is defined not only by its historical background, but also by its (strophic) form. However, recent research seems to neglect this specific shape of the poems and concentrates on the content of the texts from the perspective of cultural studies. This session aims at setting a counterpoint to this nowadays ubiquitous paradigm. The papers discuss a reading of (especially MHG) strophic (heroic) poetry, which focuses on decidedly poetic and aesthetic phenomena. The poems shall not be discerned as sources for stoffgeschichte or cultural history, but read as works of art and literature in an emphatic sense. |