Isbn: 9783110692679 - in search of the culprit: aspects of medieval authorship (andere ästhetik – studien, 1) (2 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite various poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. The Romantic idea that an author created a text or even a work autonomously is transferred even to pre-modern literature today. This ignores the fact that the transmission of medieval and early modern literature creates variances that could not be justified by means of singular authorships. The present volume offers new theoretical approaches from English, German, and Scandinavian studies to provide a historically more adequate approach to the question of authorship in premodern literary cultures. Authorship is no longer equated with an extra-textual entity, but is instead considered a narratological, inner- and intertextual function that can be recognized in the retrospectively established beginnings of literature as well as in the medial transformation of texts during the early days of printing. The volume is aimed at interested scholars of all philologies, especially those dealing with the Middle Ages or Early Modern Period.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. In Search of the Culprit | Aspects of Medieval Authorship, Andere Ästhetik - Studien 1 | Lukas Rösli | Buch | 298 S. | Englisch | 2022 | De Gruyter GmbH | EAN 9783110692679 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…