IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 212: Nasty Weather in a Nutshell: The Function and Handling of Bad Weather in Pre-Modern Short Epics
Monday 5 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Brevitas: Gesellschaft zur Erforschung vormoderner Kleinepik |
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| Organiser: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
| Moderator/Chair: | Silvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth |
| Paper 212-a | It's Always Sunny in Narragonia: Meterological Foolishness in Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Paper 212-b | Behave Yourself in Bad Weather!: The Fable Affe und Esel and Its Versions of Correspondence between Micro and Macro Cosmos (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Paper 212-c | It's Raining Again…: Bad Weather in Wernher Schodoler's (jun.) Diary (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Nasty weather is - in a pre-modern understanding - meaningful, a sort of communication between micro- and macrocosm. This big idea receives a very concise form in German short epics dealing with nasty weather: Similar to a burning lense, pre-modern short epics are telling about the cosmological correspondence between nasty weather, god, and human kind in the smallest spaces. Inconspicuous occurances are meeting the big picture - a fascinating imbalance. |