IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 822: Medieval Motifs and Figures on their Journey through the Centuries (15th-21st Centuries), II: Medieval Figures in New Media
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Universität Salzburg |
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| Organiser: | Siegrid Schmidt, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Universität Salzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ursula Bieber, Institut für Slawistik, Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 822-a | Two Monks from Monastery to Eternity: The Message of the Vorauer Novelle (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Religious Life |
| Paper 822-b | The Cultural, Literary, and Political Reception of Johannes von Tepl, Johannes von Neumarkt, and Johann von Jenstein in Bohemia from 15th-21st Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Slavic, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | This session wants to discuss travels of time but not only those of persons but of literary figures and motifs. In fine art, in literature, and in music e.a. you can find memories of the Middle Ages in different forms: either a whole story is retold or only a part of it is taken up for a new cultural work. But the 'modern artist' mostly does not take the original medieval version of a cultural phenomenon but its transformed one. These transformations include the change of the media, the change of value of a figure or the change of time and space where the topic is situated. And all these changes themselves are part of the new artistic work. The speakers will present examples of literature and of fine art and will discuss the process of transformation. |