IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1036: Medieval Crossovers: Literary Figures between Different Spheres and Times, between Social Classes and Cultures in (Post-)Modern Media
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg |
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| Organiser: | Siegrid Schmidt, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jutta Baumgartner, Zentrum für Gastrosophie, Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 1036-a | From Time to Time: Knightly Border Crossers on the Silver Screen (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Paper 1036-b | Mummenschanz in Tintagel: Knight Bedevir's Journey over the Borders of Cultures and Ways of Living (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1036-c | Medieval Border Crossers in Modern Counter-Worlds: Neidhart and Helmbrecht (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1036-d | Being Wild - But No Wild (Wo)man: The Oscillating Border between Human and Animal in Medieval German Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Social History |
| Abstract | This session focuses not on geographical borders but on historical, cultural, social, and medial ones. It deals with medieval literary figures, either fictional heroes or real (?) producers of literature that cross over borders or switch between areas. What transformations of constructing and perceiving a character are connected with those crossings, regarding the changes of times and spaces? In which cultural areas and media did those crossings take place or influence the material and ideological appearance of medieval literary figures in (post)modern times? For instance the perception of time in medieval-themed cinematic realisations can be misleading. A spotlight is put on the modern elements in the medieval and vice versa. In the novel by Wilhelm Kubie Knight Bedevir is on his journey through the centuries and the Middle Ages and King Arthur's court. This literary work reflects on the differences and repetitions of the epochs, partly the inability of men to learn from history, not even from their own experiences. |