Diz vliegende bîspel

Ambiguity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Essays in Honor of Arthur Groos

Marian Polhill, Alexander Sager, Marian E. Polhill, Alexander Sager, Marian E. Polhill, Alexander Sager

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9783847111573
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847011576
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: German Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The volume explores the theme of ambiguity in medieval and early modern literature in essays honoring the life and work of Arthur Groos, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, USA, emeritus. The famous expression diz vliegende bîspel from Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is its watchword. In the poem the black and white plumage of the magpie represents the characteristic complexity, ambiguity, and ambivalence of the romance. Removed from its historical context the expression is also a figure of Arthur Groos's wide-ranging intellectual flight. In addition to his work on medieval German verse narrative, he has made important contributions to courtly love poetry, medieval and early modern scientific literature, early modern German literature in general, and especially to opera.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Introduction
• Andrea Schindler: Mediale Mehrstimmigkeit. Der ‚Wigaloisˋ in Handschrift, Buchdruck und Comic
• Markus Stock: Cunneware de Lalant and Her Brothers. The Other Family in Wolfram's ˋParzival'
• Bonnie Buettner: rede unde tât. Gawan, Gramoflanz, and the Arthurian Court
• John Greenfield: gan mir got so vil der tage. On the Perception of Time and Space in Wolfram's ˋWillehalm'
• Matthias Meyer: The Prophesying Damsel in Heinrich von dem Türlin's ˋDiu Crône'. A case of intentional ambiguity?
• Marian E. Polhill: gewisser wân. Lovesickness in ˋMauritius von Craûn'
• Christoph Huber: Der zwiespältige Gelehrte. Zur Ambiguität der Aristoteles-Figur in mittelalterlichen Darstellungen (Artes-Repräsentant, Fürstenerzieher, Liebhaber)
• Alexander Sager: Stant ûf, ritter! Otto von Botenlouben's ˋWie sol ich den ritter nu gescheiden' as challenge to Wolfram's radical dawnsong ideology
• Volker Mertens: Minnesang – A Performative Approach
• David H. Price: The Uncertain Place of Love in Martin Opitz's ˋTeutsche Poemata' (1624 and 1625)
• Maria Dobozy: German Single-leaf Prints as Multi-media Objects. Texts, Images, and Performance Potential, 1529–1530
• Helmut Puff: sodomia und ironia um 1500. Versuch einer Annäherung
• Ingrid Bennewitz: Die Eigenthümlichkeit einer alten Geschichte. Hartmanns ‚Erecˋ als Sonderfall von Überlieferung und Rezeptio mit einem Ausblick auf Richard Wagners ‚Erecˋ-Lektüre
• Danielle Buschinger: Produktive ‚Nibelungenliedˋ-Rezeption in Opern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ernst Raupach, Eduard Gerber/Heinrich Dorn und Louise Otto-Peters
• Publications of Arthur Groos
• Contributors