Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700-1600

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-135865-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Sense, Matter, and Medium

The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700–1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig’s , a pilgrim’s letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and narrative objects in texts (the , the , Hartmann von Aue’s , Heinrich of Neustadt’s, Luís de Camões’s , and the of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often foregrounding the intersection between the material and the immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled, in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted engagement in human life.

Zielgruppe

scholars in medieval and early modern cultures, literary scholars

Autoren/Hrsg.

Starkey, Kathryn

Eming, Jutta

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Materielle Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Jutta Eming, Freie Universität Berlin; Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, Stanford.

Jutta Eming, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.