Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0268041393 ISBN 13 : 9780268041397

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jutta Eming is professor at the Institute for German and Netherlandic Philology, Free University, Berlin.

Ann Marie Rasmussen is the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker Memorial Chair of German Literary Studies at the University of Waterloo. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde, co-edited with Jutta Eming and Kathryn Starkey (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268041393
• ISBN 13: 9780268041397
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Éditeur: Eming Jutta, Rasmussen Ann Marie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible