IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 619: Pleasure in Violence, II: Fictional and Pseudo-Historiographical Literature
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Forschergruppe 'Gewaltgemeinschaften', Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen / Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft |
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| Organiser: | Cora Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Titus Knäpper, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen |
| Paper 619-a | Die Lust an erzählter Gewalt: Virtuelle Gewaltgemeinschaften in 'Der Wiener Meerfahrt' (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 619-b | Blood, Glory, and the Greater Good of the People: Depicting a King's Violence (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Military History |
| Paper 619-c | Süße Rache: Kollektiver Gewaltgenuss im Roman der Lorreinen und in seinen französischen Vorlagen (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Dutch |
| Abstract | Both in medieval fictional and in pseudo-historiographical literature, acts or depictions of violence often aim at some kind of pleasure arising in those who learn about the violence when it has come to its end. There are festivities celebrating the (victorious) end of a battle within the narrated plot, there are the pleasures of pride arising in both the victorious fighters in the text and those who feel related to them outside of the narrated world, and there are the pleasures of the audience during and after the recitation of acts of violence. The papers in this session show how these different kinds of pleasure in and after violence intermingle and how they are functionalized in different literary genres: the maere, the chanson de geste and the chronicle. |