IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 216: The Differing Impact of Poverty and Wealth within Courtly Epics

Monday 11 July 2011, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München / Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft
Organiser:	Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Moderator/Chair:	Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Paper 216-a	'Der Heidensch Man': Rennewart between Poverty and Wealth (Language: English) Susanne Knaeble, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities
Paper 216-b	Poverty and Wealth, Abundance and Absence: Concepts of Allegory in Middle High German Grail Epics (Language: English) Katharina Mertens-Fleury, Ältere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Zürich Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German
Paper 216-c	Ordo: The Didactic Concepts in 'Meier Helmbrecht' of Wernher der Gartenaere (Language: English) Alexander Kagerer, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Index terms: Anthropology, Education, Language and Literature - German
Abstract	Poverty and wealth define communities and societies. As political, religious, and social phenomenons, they are embedded in epistemological contexts and discourses which expand into literature and literary texts. This session aims to unfold the function of these opposite terms as a poetic and aesthetical instrument of differentiation within courtly epics. The papers do not only bring into focus the semasiological variety of poverty and wealth in premodern literature, but also the role of these concepts to produce meaning for the courtly and feudal society throughout literature.