Author: Karin Lichtblau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783110184914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Ulrike Hirhager
Publisher: de Gruyter
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Helmut Birkhan
Publisher: de Gruyter
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Ulrike Hirhager
Publisher: de Gruyter
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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"An invaluable work on narrative motifs also for the neighboring literatures of the Middle Ages." Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota

Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110693666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.

Author: Karin Lichtblau
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Helmut Birkhan
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ISBN:
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Sjoerd Levelt
Publisher: Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN: 9087042213
Category : CD-ROMs
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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The little-known author Jan van Naaldwijk, whose two early sixteenth-century Dutch chronicles of Holland are preserved in autograph manuscripts in the British Library, wrote at a moment reputed to be the turning point between medieval and Renaissance modes of historical writing. While he primarily relied on the medieval historical tradition of Holland, he expanded it in ways that allow us to appreciate the broader impact of innovations occurring at the same time in more 'professional' scholarly circles. This is the first in-depth study of these chronicles and their relation to their sources, placed in the wider context of history writing running from the mid-fourteenth century into the eighteenth, providing new insights into the continuities and transitions that characterized the historical tradition of Holland from the late middle ages well into the early modern period. An accompanying cd-rom contains transcriptions of both Jan's chronicles. Winner of the Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize 2012 Short-listed for the Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize 2012.

Author: International Arthurian Society
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ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: Marian E. Polhill
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 384701157X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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The volume explores the theme of ambiguity in medieval and early modern literature in essays honoring the life and work of Arthur Groos, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, USA, emeritus. The famous expression diz vliegende bîspel from Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is its watchword. In the poem the black and white plumage of the magpie represents the characteristic complexity, ambiguity, and ambivalence of the romance. Removed from its historical context the expression is also a figure of Arthur Groos's wide-ranging intellectual flight. In addition to his work on medieval German verse narrative, he has made important contributions to courtly love poetry, medieval and early modern scientific literature, early modern German literature in general, and especially to opera.