IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 221: Rules of Violence, II: Rhetoric of Violence
Monday 9 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Forschergruppe 'Gewaltgemeinschaften', Universität Gießen / Oswald-von-Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft |
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| Organiser: | Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
| Paper 221-a | Ripped Bodies, Pierced Heels, and Burned Houses: Manifestations of Violence in Norse Saga Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities |
| Paper 221-b | Märengewalt: Violence as a Means of Communication Used for the Dissolution of Communities of Violence (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Paper 221-c | Darstellung der Regeln von Gewalt und Regeln der Darstellung von Gewalt: Gewaltausbrüche im 'gattungsfreien Raum' des meisterlichen Erzähllieds (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Performance Arts - General |
| Abstract | Even though violence often seems to be irrational, acts of violence that are a form of non-verbal communication follow certain rules. These rules especially become visible in literary descriptions and fictional constructions of violence. Medieval literature distinguishes between acceptable and unacceptable, regular and irregular forms of violence and it stresses the dialogical character of violence, often related to the performative quality of the respective literary genre. The papers in this session ask about the different rules of violence described in different literary genres in medieval German and Norse literature. |