IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 720: Exploring Semantic Borders: Aesthetic Concepts in Middle High German
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 'Andere Ästhetik', Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
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| Organiser: | Marion Darilek, Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 'Andere Ästhetik' Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anja Bork, Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 'Andere Ästhetik', Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 720-a | Süeze, Senfte, Linde: Delimiting the Lexical Frame of 'Sweetness' in Middle High German Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German, Rhetoric |
| Paper 720-b | On the Borderline between Autology and Heterology: Figures of Aesthetic Reflection in the Vocabulary of Sangspruch Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Rhetoric |
| Paper 720-c | Ästhetischer Begriff, ästhetische Metapher: Vermessungen einer Grenze (Language: Deutsch) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | This session focuses on aesthetic vocabulary in Middle High German (MHG). As the vernacular gradually penetrates the discursive field of aesthetics, an appropriate vocabulary needs to be developed to reflect on the production, the properties, and the reception of works of art. While some aesthetic terms are borrowed from Latin, others are rooted in everyday language and gradually acquire an aesthetic meaning. But how can we describe the border between aesthetic and non-aesthetic meaning, and how does German aesthetic vocabulary evolve as it transgresses this border? We attempt to answer these questions by considering three 'border zones' of aesthetics and historical semantics: (1.) the aesthetic vocabulary of 'Sangspruch', i. e. poems at the edge of 'fine art', (2.) the lexical frame of 'sweetness' in MHG, and (3.) the delineation between occasional aesthetic metaphors and established aesthetic terms. |