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

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

Green, Dennis Howard
Green, D. H.
Dennis Howard, Green

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521020883
ISBN13: 9780521020886
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 6 2005
Pages: 500
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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