Topographies of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
Arthuriana ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Sullivan

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Jeep

Abstract Building upon recent phraseological studies on Old High and Middle High German texts, the alliterating word pairs in the early works of Hartmann von Aue are catalogued and analyzed philologically, thus contributing to an emerging complete listing of the paired rhetorical expressions through the Early Middle High German period. The first extant courtly Arthurian romance, Hartmann's Erec, a shorter piece of his known as Diu Klage, and a handful of poems he composed are by all indications from the last decade of the twelfth century, despite later manuscript transmission. Each pair is listed, described in the context in which it appears, and compared with any extant pairs from earlier German works. What emerge are insights into the evolution of these expressions, in some cases through centuries. On the one hand, Hartmann employs alliterating expressions that date to the Old High German period, while on the other hand apparently creating new ones. As in findings in earlier texts, pairs recorded on multiple occasions are likely to have been used by other authors. Typical for medieval German texts – when compared to similar modern expressions – is the insight that there is a fair amount of variation concerning the sequence of the alliterating elements and/or the inclusion of morpho-syntactic modifiers such as pronouns, possessives, adjectives, or adverbs. Modern translations of Hartmann's works into German and English show just how varied these phrases can appear in translation. When known, later examples of the alliterating word-pairs are cited, albeit for obvious reasons only in an incomplete fashion. The long-term project is designed to continue to chart the emergence of the early German alliterating word-pairs chronologically.


2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
Ruth H. Firestone ◽  
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

2004 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
D. H. Green ◽  
Alexandra Stirling-Hellenbrand

2020 ◽  
Vol 149 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-310
Author(s):  
Florian Kragl

The article discusses a poetic phenomenon typical for central genres of MHG poetry, heroic poetry, Arthurian romance, Minnesang, namely the question if characters and their actions are, or can be, evaluated as evil, and for what purpose. The axiological system of MHG poetry proves to be of extraordinary instability, the main reason for that being a strong tendency towards a rigid idealization of the poetic 'world' and its characters. Hence, the evil is not a genuine part of the poetic blueprints. Where it is, for one reason or the other, indispensable, it usually manifests as a generic interference, that is to say as an import from alien generic conventions, including day-to-day narration. Im Zentrum des Beitrags steht ein für die wichtigsten Genres der mhd. Dichtung – Heldendichtung, Artusroman und Minnesang – typisches poetisches Phänomen; es geht um die Frage, ob und inwieweit in dieser die Figuren und deren Aktionen böse genannt werden können, und wenn ja, zu welchem Zweck. Die Axiologie der mhd. Dichtung erweist sich dabei als außerordentlich instabil, was primär an einer starken Tendenz zur rigiden Idealisierung der poetischen 'Welt' und ihrer Figuren liegt: Das Böse ist nicht eigentlicher Teil der poetischen Baupläne. Wo es dennoch, aus verschiedenen Gründen, unverzichtbar erscheint, wird es häufig manifest als genetische Interferenz, also als ein Import fremder generischer Konventionen, zu denen auch das Alltagserzählen zu rechnen ist.


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