Medieval Listening and Reading: The Primary Reception of German Literature 800-1300 - Couverture souple

Green, Dennis Howard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521020883 ISBN 13 : 9780521020886

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book examines the first five hundred years of German literature (800–1300) and how it was received by contemporaries.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This new study brings recent scholarly debates on oral cultures and literate societies to bear on the earliest recorded literature in German (800–1300). It considers the criteria for assessing what works were destined for listeners, what examples anticipated readers, and how far both modes of reception could apply to one work. The opening chapters review previous scholarship, and the introduction of writing into preliterate Germany. The core of the book presents lexical and non-lexical evidence for the different modes of reception, taken from the whole spectrum of genres, from dance songs to liturgy, from drama and heroic literature to the court narrative and lyric poetry. The social contexts of reception and the physical process of reading books are also considered. Two concluding chapters explore the literary and historical implications of the slow interpenetration of orality and literacy.

Revue de presse

'Admirable ... a very complex, well-researched and absorbing book ... highly recommended.' Icarus

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521020883
• ISBN 13: 9780521020886
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 500
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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