Medieval listening and reading: the primary reception of German literature, 800-1300

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 recept...

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Main Author: Green, D. H. 1922-2008 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1994
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Summary: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
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 483 Seiten)
ISBN:9780511518720
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511518720

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