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The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety
of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention
on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700-1600). The range of
things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy
of Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim's
letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and
narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the
Ordene de Chevalerie, Hartmann von Aue's Erec, Heinrich of
Neustadt's Apollonius of Tyre, Luis de Camoes's Os Lusiadas, and
the vita of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers
consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often
foregrounding the intersection between the material and the
immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they
express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval
and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than
symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both
their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are
addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled,
in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted
engagement in human life.
Anlass und Gegenstand des Bandes ist der Versuch einer vorlaufigen
Bilanz: Seit etwa Mitte der 1980er Jahre ist die Forschung zum
Liebes- und Abenteuerroman weit voran geschritten. Bislang wurde
die Arbeit angrenzender Disziplinen jedoch nur vereinzelt zur
Kenntnis genommen. Hier werden erstmals Fragestellungen,
methodische Ansatze und Probleme der Forschung auf internationaler
und interdisziplinarer Basis zusammen gefuhrt und die Breite und
Kontinuitat der europaischen Uberlieferung zum Gegenstand gemacht.
Zudem wird versucht, Perspektiven kunftiger Forschung zu bestimmen.
Der Band vermittelt einen reprasentativen Einblick in eine
uberwaltigend umfang- und aspektreiche Gattungsgeschichte. Wahrend
mit 'Hybriditat ein mittlerweile etablierter Begriff fur die
genretypische Mischung aus Gattungs- und Erzahlmustern im Titel
genannt ist, verweist das Konzept des asthetischen 'Spiels' auf die
kreativen Potentiale der Gattung, die es vielfach erst noch zu
erschliessen gilt."
The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND
KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of
Literature and Culture), with a rich tradition stretching back to
1874, is an established feature among the renowned publications for
German Literary Studies. Edited by Ernst Osterkamp and Werner
Roecke at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the series presents
examples of high-quality scholarship examining literary texts in
conjunction with historical cultural phenomena, particularly with
the other arts. There is an explicit demand for literary studies
with a transdisciplinary approach. German literature from the
Middle Ages to the present day forms the main focus of the series.
As the historical cultural thrust of the series includes aspects of
intercultural experience and national perceptions of the other,
Quellen und Forschungen is also open to occasional comparative
studies. The publications of the series include monographs,
doctoral and professorial theses and thematically focused volumes
of collected papers. Works presented for acceptance in the series
are required to display scholarly relevance and excellence in
method and presentation.
More than any other secular story of the Middle Ages, the tale of
Tristan and Isolde fascinated its audience. Adaptations in poetry,
prose, and drama were widespread in western European vernacular
languages. Visual portrayals of the story appear not only in
manuscripts and printed books but in individual pictures and
pictorial narratives, and on an amazing array of objects including
stained glass, wall paintings, tiles, tapestries, ivory boxes,
combs, mirrors, shoes, and misericords. The pan-European and
cross-media nature of the surviving medieval evidence is not
adequately reflected in current Tristan scholarship, which largely
follows disciplinary and linguistic lines. The contributors to
Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde seek
to address this problem by opening a cross-disciplinary dialogue
and by proposing a new set of intellectual coordinates-the concepts
of materiality and visuality-without losing sight of the historical
specificity or the aesthetic character of individual works of art
and literature. Their theoretical paradigm allows them to survey
the richness of the surviving evidence from a variety of
disciplinary approaches, while offering new perspectives on the
nature of representation in medieval culture. Enriched by numerous
illustrations, this volume is an important examination of the story
of Tristan and Isolde in the European context of its visual and
textual transmission.
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More than any other secular story of the Middle Ages, the tale
of Tristan and Isolde fascinated its audience. Adaptations in
poetry, prose, and drama were widespread in western European
vernacular languages. Visual portrayals of the story appear not
only in manuscripts and printed books but in individual pictures
and pictorial narratives, and on an amazing array of objects
including stained glass, wall paintings, tiles, tapestries, ivory
boxes, combs, mirrors, shoes, and misericords.The pan-European and
cross-media nature of the surviving medieval evidence is not
adequately reflected in current Tristan scholarship, which largely
follows disciplinary and linguistic lines. The contributors to
"Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde" seek
to address this problem by opening a cross-disciplinary dialogue
and by proposing a new set of intellectual coordinates--the
concepts of materiality and visuality--without losing sight of the
historical specificity or the aesthetic character of individual
works of art and literature. Their theoretical paradigm allows them
to survey the richness of the surviving evidence from a variety of
disciplinary approaches, while offering new perspectives on the
nature of representation in medieval culture. Enriched by numerous
illustrations, this volume is an important examination of the story
of Tristan and Isolde in the European context of its visual and
textual transmission. "Comprehensive and cutting edge, "Visuality
and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde "defines the
moment in the history of Tristan scholarship. The essays, gathered
from both sides of the Atlantic, enrich and expand the key concepts
of materiality and visuality to account for the proliferation of
the Tristan story in an astonishing range of media. The collection
gives scholars in several disciplines the tools to explore the
productive connections between the verbal and the visual in
medieval culture." --Sarah Westphal-Wihl, Washington University in
St. Louis
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