IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 637: Entanglements of Love and Their Spatial Settings in Arthurian Romances
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft |
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| Organiser: | Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Ingrid Bennewitz, Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
| Paper 637-a | Layers of Entanglement in Wolfram's Titurel (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 637-b | Locating Love: The Meadow in Pleier's Meleranz (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German |
| Paper 637-c | Untangling the Figure of Famurgan in Hartmann von Aue's Erec (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medicine |
| Abstract | In this session speakers try to show how in Arthurian romances place settings open up different views on the lovers' entanglements in their specific love affair. The first paper deals with Wolfram von Eschenbach's fragmentary Titurel and its crucial scene in the forest where the appearance of a dog serves to illustrate a special nature of this love. In the second paper, in Pleier's Meleranz, a meadow, described as a locus amoenus of the lovers' meeting place, turns out to represent different dimensions of the relation between the two lovers thus melting the existing works of the Arthurian tradition into one another. The third paper examines the Famurgan excursus in Hartmann von Aue's Arthurian epic Erec, considering the portrayal of a character who is at once human and divine, royal and female, sorceress and healer. |