By Christiane Ackermann, Michael Egerding
This quantity offers present theoretical ways from the fields of cultural and literary thought and describes their reception and alertness within the quarter of Medieval German reports. every one bankruptcy engages in a literary research of a key textual content from Medieval German literature. The paintings additionally offers wide bibliographic details and a thesaurus of key words.
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Befassten sich mit Varianz nicht um ihrer selbst willen, sondern nur, um nicht mehr erhaltene Vorstufen des Textes zu rekonstruieren. Die beiden wesentlichen Schritte dorthin sind: || 17 Provozierend hatte Bernhard Cerquiglini in seinem vielbeachteten Buch ‚Éloge de la variante‘ formuliert: „L’œuvre littéraire, au Moyen Âge, est une variable“ (Paris 1989, 57). 18 Vgl. Thomas Bein: „Varianztypen“. 19 Vgl. ): Varianten – Variants – Variantes. 20 Vgl. u. a. Martin Baisch: Textkritik als Problem. 21 Vgl.
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4000) Karl, Sachwalter Gottes auf Erden, der nach wiederholter Auskunft dous cenz anz et mielz („zweihundert Jahre und mehr“, v. 539) alt ist, ist in der ewigen Wiederholung der Heilsgeschichte gefangen. 62 Das zeigt sich u. a. an der Umgestaltung des Kampfes zum Kreuzzug, dank der sämtliche christlichen Ritter in insistenter Wiederholung als Märtyrer bezeichnet werden können, sowie an der Rücknahme heroischer Elemente: Es ist nicht mehr maßloser Stolz, der Roland daran hindert, in sein Horn zu blasen, sondern sein Wunsch, als Märtyrer zu sterben und ins Himmelreich einzugehen.