IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 617: Temporal Dynamics of Dialogue
Tuesday 7 July 2026, 11:15-12:45
| Organisers: | Julia Frick, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Rostock Pia Selmayr, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Pia Selmayr, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| Paper 617-a | When Dialogues Create Distance: On the Concept of Time in Medieval Erotic Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 617-b | Brevity and Time: On the Paradox of Dialogic Conciseness and Narratological Significance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 617-c | Increase and Decrease: Temporality and Dialogue in the Lalebuch (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German, Printing History |
| Paper 617-d | Dialogic Narrating with Letters: Epistolary Elements and Temporal Structure in Johann von Würzburg's Wilhelm von Österreich (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German |
| Abstract | The session focuses on dialogue as a literary form in narrative texts, with a particular emphasis on temporalities. The session aims to explore how dialogic structures negotiate time. It addresses the forms of medieval speaking scenes and their function as structuring elements of narrative, operating primarily along the paradigmatic axis. These structures create temporal spaces in which dialogical communication is staged, allowing paradigmatic references, shifts in level and interconnections with other narrative elements (e.g., narrator commentary, digressions). |