IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1629: Rewriting Antagonists

Thursday 15 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Universität Wien
Organiser:	Florian Kragl, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Matthias Meyer, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien
Paper 1629-a	The grimm of Hagen (Language: English) Alexander Hödlmoser, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - German
Paper 1629-b	Mabonagrain/Mabonagrin: Rewriting the Courtly Antagonist (Language: English) Florian Kragl, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - German
Paper 1629-c	Winedryhten or Deofulcunda: The Character of Holofernes in the Old English Judith (Language: English) Jena D. Webb, Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities
Abstract	Rewriting stories is essential to medieval culture. Thus, the study of the rewriting process and especially of the changes made in rewriting (or rather: retelling) texts are central to every medievalist approach. This seems to apply especially to those passages of texts which irritate the rewriter/reteller and has long been a well-known peculiarity of medieval literature. The papers of this section will focus on an intricate sub-aspect of this phenomenon: the construction and textual proliferation of antagonists. Only reluctantly fitting stark poetic systems (like history of salvation, courtly romance, heroic poetry), they turn into 'agents provocateurs' of narrative traditions.