IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 509: Medieval Heroic Epics between East and West: New Intercultural Approaches

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Baku Slavic University, Azerbaijan / Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft
Organiser:	Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main
Moderator/Chair:	Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main
Paper 509-a	Narrator Comments in the Heroic Epics of the European Middle Ages and of Central Asian Turkic Peoples (Language: English) Karl Reichl, Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Other, Literacy and Orality
Paper 509-b	New Aspects of the Transition between Orality and Literacy in the Nibelungenlied (Language: English) Edward R. Haymes, Department of Modern Languages, Cleveland State University, Ohio Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Literacy and Orality
Paper 509-c	Intertextuality of Cultural Paradigms in the Kitab Dede Korkut and the Nibelungenlied (Language: English) Rahilya Geybullayeva, Baku Slavic University, Azerbaijan Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Other, Mentalities
Abstract	The session aims to present a new intercultural project comparing medieval heroic epics from the Eastern and Western literatures of the Middle Ages. Main examples are taken from Germanic and ancient Turkic epics. Since 2009, the project is sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Responsible for the organisation are the Baku Slavic University, Azerbaijan, the University of Mainz, and the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft. The purposes of the project are - amongst others - to shed new light on common patterns of heroism, on common poetic features, and also on cultural differences.