Author : KATHARINA MULLER;STEPHAN MICHAEL SCHRODER.
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File Size : 41,6 MB
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ISBN : 9783831672059
Author : Katharina Müller
Publisher : Herbert Utz Verlag
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 3831644284
Wie ist der Zusammenhang von Kosmopolitismus und Körperlichkeit im Drama und Theater des 18. Jahrhunderts beschaffen? Wie werden das zeitgenössische Konzept des Kosmopolitismus und die zeittypische Veränderung der Körperlichkeit auf der Bühne performativ umgesetzt, spielerisch erprobt und gegebenenfalls bestätigt? Antworten auf diese Fragen geben in diesem Band skandinavistische, anglistische, germanistische, romanistische und theaterwissenschaftliche Forscherinnen und Forscher aus Deutschland, Dänemark und Schweden. Die komparatistische Perspektivierung der dänisch-norwegischen, schwedischen, deutschen, englischen und französischen Dramatik des 18. Jahrhunderts erlaubt es, Differenzen ebenso wie Übereinstimmungen zwischen den verschiedenen europäischen Theaterkulturen produktiv zu beleuchten.
Author : Rita Schlusemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110764458
This volume examines the ten most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe between 1470 and 1800. Each of these narratives was marketed in numerous European languages and circulated throughout several centuries. Combining literary studies and book history, this work offers for the first time a transnational perspective on a selected text corpus of this genre. It explores the spatio-temporal transmission of the texts in different languages and the materiality of the editions: the narratives were bought, sold, read, translated and adapted across European borders, from the south of Spain to Iceland and from Great Britain to Poland. Thus, the study analyses the multi-faceted processes of cultural circulation, translation and adaptation of the texts. In their diverse forms of mediality such as romance, drama, ballad and penny prints, they also make a significant contribution to a European identity in the early modern period. The narrative texts examined here include Apollonius, Septem sapientum, Amadis de Gaula, Fortunatus, Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne, Melusine, Griseldis, Aesopus' Life and Fables, Reynaert de vos and Till Ulenspiegel.
Author : Daniela Hahn
Publisher : Herbert Utz Verlag
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Good and evil in literature
ISBN : 3831645574
This volume assembles 13 essays as the result of a workshop for international doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in Old Norse studies, which was held at the Institute for Nordic Philology at LMU in Munich in December 2015. The contributions’ focus lies on different aspects of ›bad‹ or ›evil‹ characters in saga literature, and they give testimony to the broad literary variety such figures display in Old Norse texts. The “Antagonists and Troublemakers in Old Norse Literature” are here explored in their diversity, ranging from their literary psychology to their characteristics which often challenge gender norms. The contributions discuss the narrative strategies of presenting these characters to the audience, both positively and negatively. Furthermore, they analyse how the central paradox of evil and its dependence on context is realised in various ways in Old Norse literature.
Author : Matthias Egeler
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3831648557
Snæfellsjökull is one of Iceland’s most famous volcanoes. It is there that Jules Verne located the entrance to the centre of the earth; it is the abode of a medieval saga hero and the location of one of Halldór Laxness’s novels. Travellers, painters, poets, and film-makers have been drawn to it in equal measure – while at the same time and against all expectations, others seem unfazed: as famous as the mountain is on a national and international stage, local folklore and medieval historiography have amazingly little interest in it. Clearly, Snæfellsjökull is not the same to everyone. This volume presents a survey of the place of Snæfellsjökull in the Icelandic and European imagination. It adapts the paradigm of geocriticism, which shifts the focus of the scholarly investigation from the work of individual authors to the multitude of views that different authors, artists, and practitioners have on a single place. The results of the perambulation of Snæfellsjökull presented here show that both its cultural and literary history, as well as the paradigm of geocriticism, open up broad vistas that amply repay the effort necessary to tackle this mountain.
Author : Lucie Korecká
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3831648107
This work presents an outline of the Old Norse vocabulary associated with magic and its practicioners. The research is focused on the individual words’ evaluative aspect and on their function within the texts, as well as on the narrative roles of magic as a literary motif and as a cultural concept. The literary motif of magic plays a significant role as a narrative device that enables the construction of multiple layers of meaning in the texts. The cultural concept of magic contributes to the conceptualization of various social and psychological aspects, such as the transformations of political power, gender roles, the transgression of norms, irrational impulses, and diverse forms of otherness.
Author : Séamus Mac Mathúna
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3831647828
The question of the extent of Gaelic influence on medieval Icelandic literature and culture has fascinated scholars for many years, especially the possible relationship between Irish voyage literature and Icelandic narratives concerning journeys to the Otherworld. This book provides a fresh examination and reappraisal of the topic. It compares the Irish [i]immrama[/i] ‘voyages’, including the greatly influential Hiberno-Latin text [i]Navigatio Sancti Brendani[/i] ‘The Voyage of Saint Brendan’, and [i]echtrai[/i] ‘otherworld adventures’ with the Icelandic [i]fornaldarsögur[/i] and related material, such as the voyages of Torkillus in Saxo’s [i]Gesta Danorum[/i]. It also assesses stories about Hvítramannaland, touches on similarities in folk narratives and examines the influence of Classical and Christian literature on the tales. In conclusion, the book makes proposals to account for the parallels and differences between the two traditions and is accompanied by an extensive bibliography and several indices.
Author : Kristýna Králová
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3831648263
This work is concerned with time reckoning and perception in Old Norse culture. Based on an analysis of various prose and poetic works, the author reconstructs the native images of time, as well as their changes in relation to social development, namely the arrival of Christianity and feudalism to the North. The primary sources are divided into three groups. The first group comprises works that contain traces of the original domestic understanding of time, the „Poetic Edda“, „Snorri’s Edda“, legendary and family sagas. The second group includes different types of texts, all of which adopt foreign concepts of time that spread to Iceland especially through various learned treatises and the influence of the Church. Lastly, it is examined how foreign time reckoning and perception affected the temporal structure of kings’ and bishops’ sagas included in the third group of sources.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9004467327
This volume explores the production of loss in nationalist discourses during the long nineteenth century in the Baltic Sea region – how the notion of loss was charged with emotions in political writings, lectures, novels, paintings, letters and diaries.
Author : Matthias Egeler
Publisher : Herbert Utz Verlag
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Sacred space
ISBN : 3831645299
Der Band „Germanische Kultorte: »Vergleichende, historische und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Zugänge« zieht die Bilanz eines interdisziplinären Symposiums, das im Oktober 2015 am Institut für Nordische Philologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München stattfand. Diskutanden aus Nordischer Philologie, Archäologie, Altorientalistik und Religionswissenschaft tauschten sich in diesem Rahmen über unterschiedlichste Aspekte germanischer (und ausgewählter anderer) ›Kultorte‹ aus und deckten dabei ein Spektrum von Fragen ab, das von allgemeinen Problemen der Auseinandersetzung mit ›heiligem Raum‹ über die spezifischen religiösen Räume der germanischen Religionsgeschichte bis hin zu ihrer modernen Rezeption reichte.
