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

By Dennis Howard Green

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
0521444934, 9780521444934, 0521020883, 9780521020886, 9780511518720
LCC
PT183 .G67 1994
Open Library ID
OL1423173M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9538338 bytes)
Pages
500\499
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book deals with the first 500 years of German literature (800-1300) and how it was received by contemporaries. Covering the whole spectrum of genres, from dance-songs to liturgy, heroic epics to drama, it explores which works were meant to be recited to listeners, which were destined for the individual reader, and which anticipated a twofold reception. It emphasizes this third possibility, seeing it as an example of the bicultural world of the Middle Ages, combining orality with writing, illiteracy with literacy, vernacular with Latin, lay with clerical.

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