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Grundstrukturen mittelalterlicher Erzählungen: Raum und Zeit im höfischen Roman
Author(s): Uta Störmer-Caysa (Author)
- Publisher: de Gruyter
- Publication Date: 30 July 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Language: German
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 9783110195682
- ISBN-13: 3110195682
Book Description
Working on the basis of modern narratological theories, this book introduces the reader to the poetics of epic texts from the Middle Ages and thus provides a foundation for the independent analysis of pre-modern narrative structures. The introduction takes as its starting point theories of time and space from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and among others elucidates the concepts developed by Aristotle, Plato and Augustine. From this basis in the history of ideas, it then explains the characteristics of the fictive geography of medieval texts and their projected landscapes, which are strongly influenced by the rhetorical theories and topoi of the Western tradition. Using the categories of ´;space´ and ´;time´, this introduction provides an accessible entry to central phenomena and concepts of medieval narrative literature.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“In den zahlreichen Textbeispielen mit seinen genauen und gelungenen Interpretationen liegt eine große Stärke des Buches. Diese führen gekonnt und virtuos an die Alterität mittelalterlichen Erzählens heran.”
Martin Baisch/Anne-Marie Wachs in Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch Universität Kiel 46,1 (2011)
“Gegenüber den vagen Entsprechungen verdient nämlich, was Störmer-Caysa an den höfischen Erzähltexten herausarbeitet, alle Beachtung.”
Jan-Dirk Müller in: Arbitrium 1/2010
Das >StudienbuchChristoph Huber in: Germanistik 1-2/2008
About the Author
Uta Stoermer-Caysa, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
